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[Hypcso]

So, i'm not sure if i'm just slow on this one, or i've found something awesome, but if you forbid an item a mood dwarf drags to his shop, he'll go grab another. I just used this to go from him making an artifact Diorite mechanism, to making an artifact Adamantite mechanism worth 2 mil!

[Lord Dullard]

This sounds like a bug.

[Lalandrathon]

Forbidding it *as* it is being dragged to the shop I take it? Or did you forbid it after being dragged to the shop? Because I've heard the latter does bad things.

[Hypcso]

I forbid it IN the shop, and he just went and grabbed another piece of Adamantite.

[sneakey pete]

I usually forbid any non steel, or adamatine if i have it, bars the second a metal-whatever gets a mood in my fort.

I've had some dam nice spears

[Haven]

I normally just forbid all the alternatives. Saves hauling time, and time is sanity.

[Untelligent]

Someone pointed this out a while ago. I think he also mentioned that he kept forbidding the things the moody dwarf found and it eventually got bored and made an artifact out of nothing.

[Exponent]

I've found it still a hassle to forbid all the stuff you don't want the dwarf to use, and then unforbid it afterward.  I've ended up doing the following:

Each mood workshop is in its own closed off room, with one accessible door.  This door leads to a 1 tile hallway that has another door at the end.  In the hallway is a 1 tile garbage zone, usually inactive.  When a dwarf claims the workshop, the game pauses automatically.  I then lock the inner door to the workshop, resume the game briefly and then pause it again.  I check the workshop to see what the dwarf is demanding.  I then use my stocks screen to find individual items that he needs, and choosing the ones I want, I set them to be dumped.  Dwarves pick up the items and deliver them to the workshop steps.  I then pause the game, lock the outer door, unforbid the items, deactivate the garbage zone, and unlock the inner door.  I resume, the moody dwarf picks up his items (and can't get to any other items that may otherwise seem closer to the dwarf), and no other dwarves try to get the items and put them back in their proper stockpiles.

You will need to temporarily disable all other garbage zones, and generally ensure that no other raw items are in the workshop space.  Also, I've had to deal with dumping stones that were blocking the doors, but if you remember to do so, it's a minor issue.

[nordo]

Can this have any effect on the number of items the mooder will put into the artifact?

[Blue Eagle]

Yes, but this takes away the fun of getting nonsense artifacts.

[Pilsu]

If you forbid items already in the shop while he works, they aren't consumed in the process

I'm not entirely sure how it went, I only tried it once


Oh and if you hit save when the game autopauses as he starts working, you can savescum to change the type of artifact. I shamelessly changed a steel shoe into a steel plate mail like this

[MathijsBuster]

Yes, but this takes away the fun of getting nonsense artifacts.

What fun?
It's rather anti-climactic if you ask me, just having received another steel diamond-encrusted toy axe.
If I could only sell it to the traders or something... Or give it to toddlers to play with.

[Chthonic]

Or give it to toddlers to play with.

Artifact steel toy axe?

Urist McToddler cancels play: unconscious
Urist McToddler has bled to death