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[Granite26]

Dracos may be right.... (separate job skill from material skill)

[Veroule]

There is a lot that should be rearranged to make realism in this.  Smoothing and engraving aren't the only ones that need changing.  I would put those 2 squarely in the stone carving skill.  I would also put everything currently in the mason's workshop, as should have always been in stone carving.

Then we have the same thing with carpentry and wood crafting.  Making bolts should be moved to the bowyer.

Architecture should go away; the material hauling should be done by a qualified hauler, and the design would done on every building by the dwarf building it.  The dwarf that designs it has to finish the construction and should have the appropiate labor for building with that material.

Anyway the dev notes say some stuff about moving much of the workshop and profession information into the raws for next version.  Depending on how far Toady takes that we may be able to mod some rather low level things on how dwarves get jobs done for ourselves.  I would probably make the craftsdwarf shop go away entirely.

[Footkerchief]

^^^ Actually he just posted in the Future of the Fortress thread that the only workshop-type stuff getting moved to the raws are the jobs for the Alchemist, Tanner, and Kitchen.

Also, I like your idea of moving crafting jobs, but where would bone/shell crafts get made?  Separate boneworking shop?

[scribbler]

I was thinking that modifying the alchemist shop might allow pseudo-magic mixing crystals, adding enchantments to weapons, etc. Could that be done now? Add a reaction to smelt a hammer and a new type of ore or gem and get a more powerful hammer?

[Warlord255]

The only problem with Engraving is that in order to skill it up before doing your good engravings (by smoothing) you have to have massive areas to smooth, which not all forts have. On the flipside, however, you can get your graven images by way of other trades if utterly necessary.