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Naz

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Messy messy
« on: March 27, 2010, 11:39:06 pm »

Maybe someone can help me, I've got all this crap lying around my fort with either an x or an X on both sides of the name i.e. x(pig tail shoe)x or X(pig tail shoe)X

What does that mean? I cant seem to get my dwarves to dump it or haul it to a stockpile.
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Re: Messy messy
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2010, 11:40:18 pm »

It's an owned item that is falling apart. As for getting rid of it? I don't know, sorry.
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Re: Messy messy
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2010, 11:47:27 pm »

Build lots and lots of chests in a barracks or your dwarves' rooms.

Dwarves will pick up their items and put them in chests.

Drop chests into magma. Problem solved.
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Re: Messy messy
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2010, 11:53:56 pm »

When you are looking at the item with the k menu, hit h to hide it.
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Re: Messy messy
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2010, 02:12:49 am »

Items with a double X from further use are auto-dumped into the refuse stockpile.
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Re: Messy messy
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2010, 02:29:20 am »

There's a reason all my dwarves have been running around naked for the last 15 or so years.  You just can't get rid of all their junk.  Even with responsible chest/cabinet usage, clothes will eventually be everywhere.
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Re: Messy messy
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2010, 12:18:15 pm »

Yea, I'm pretty sure that I've managed to create the world's largest and most unsanitary nudist colony. just checked my woodworker's inventory and he's got no clothing or anything on but every bit of him is covered in blood, mud or vomit. I'm thinking of tying him up outside and just letting him scream obscenities at besiegers, reminds me of a couple of hobos I've seen
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Re: Messy messy
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2010, 03:12:02 pm »

Yea, I'm pretty sure that I've managed to create the world's largest and most unsanitary nudist colony. just checked my woodworker's inventory and he's got no clothing or anything on but every bit of him is covered in blood, mud or vomit. I'm thinking of tying him up outside and just letting him scream obscenities at besiegers, reminds me of a couple of hobos I've seen
I think of dwarven mothers as dung beetles, except they are rolling their babies around.  Just trying to help them fit into society by covering them with layer upon layer of bludit (Blood, mud, vomit).
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With [SLOW_LEARNER], dwarves probably don't sit around and talk anymore. They just stand in the same corner altogether, staring at each other, sticking their bearded lips out trying to make sounds. And giggling when someone actually says a whole word.

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Re: Messy messy
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2010, 08:56:39 pm »

heh...

I made a big textile mill as my fort's "signature industry".  I also have glass, but I like to think of my fort as some sort of clothing capital of the world.  (I even nicknamed some of my legendary clothiers things like "Armani"... and others were named "Osaka"...) 

Anyway, it's kind of odd, since at that kind of level, there's people running around with XGiant Cave Spider Silk Right ShoeX and *<<=Rope Reed Left Shoe=>>* because they don't have enough money (or the inclination to) buy the other shoe.
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Re: Messy messy
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2010, 10:02:23 pm »

Yea but that one shoe is NIIIIIICE.
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