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[martinuzz]

My mayor likes native gold.
He's just asked me to create 2 native gold items.
As you dig out native gold, you get gold nuggets.
I haven't found a single gold vein yet, my miners are desperatly digging to find one, but the only thing they find is more limonite, magnetite and more bituminous coal.

Is it even possible to fulfill this mandate, since 'native gold stone' does not technically exist?

[greycat]

Gold nuggets are native gold rocks.  They just have a different name.

The only way to fulfill this mandate is to have your mason build something out of one of the gold nuggets (I suggest a statue).  Here's how I do that:

1) Build a 4x3 room with a single door as access.
2) Build a mason's workshop at the back of the room (away from the door).
3) Build a 1x1 stone stockpile inside the room, and only permit gold nuggets to be piled there.
4) Dump or use up all the stones in the room.
5) Wait until someone puts a gold nugget in the stockpile.
6) Optionally: set the workshop so that only your best mason can use it.
7) Go to the [z] -> Stones menu and mark gold nuggets as non-economic (green instead of red).
8) Queue up two "build statue" (or other good of your choice) jobs in the workshop.  The mason may bring in a stone from wherever he's standing for the first job.
9) When the mason shows up, if he's not using a gold nugget, lock the door so he'll have to use the gold nugget for the second job.  If he is using the gold nugget for the first job, you can cancel the second job.
10) Go back to [z] -> Stones and mark gold nuggets as economic again.

[Quietust]

0002151: Mandate for "make native gold items" satisfied merely by mining out ore

[gtmattz]

my miners are desperatly digging to find one, but the only thing they find is more limonite, magnetite and more bituminous coal.

You are digging in the wrong place then, those ores are all from a sedimentary layer, you need to dig down and find granite, lots of gold in granite layers.

[Bartleby]

Some nice suggestions greycat.
But using burrows , makes the job very easy.
Just make a stockpile that takes only target material, define a burrow over the workshop and that stockpile.
My masons work with the following burrows: "Flux","Red","Blue","Green","Yellow"   

[martinuzz]

I can't seem to find any gold, not even in the granite layers I found

So now, I'm importing gold nuggets. Oddity: When I use gold nuggets to make rock crafts, they come out as if the were large gems:
"+Large native gold+".

They do fulfill my mayor's mandates, luckily.

[terminal]

Some nice suggestions greycat.
But using burrows , makes the job very easy.
Just make a stockpile that takes only target material, define a burrow over the workshop and that stockpile.
My masons work with the following burrows: "Flux","Red","Blue","Green","Yellow"   

When you do this, do your masons leave the burrow to eat/drink/sleep?

[Aravin]

Just like mine - he loves HORN silver (not just silver, but f*king horn silver that is much more rare). Though i've done him several horn silver hatch covers (he loves hatch covers too), that bastard still wants more)
Luckily enough he doesn't require kunzite things (though i had caravan bring me some of those gems). And the issue is that i can't kill him - he is one of 7 initial dwarf and etc. Just don't feel it will be right. To kill the foundator. 

[Urist McPenguin]

Whenever I have a dwarf with "difficult" tastes in materials, I stockpile as much as possible of what they like, and put it on full request from the caravan. This ensures that its always there when they mandate it, instead of having to send out new mining expeditions in the hope of finding something before the timer runs out.

[martinuzz]

Yes, that's what I usually do as well.. Didin't give me time for that, he got elected and started demandind stuff fast. Probably has to do with his 'he finds immodesty distasteful' treat. He's also part of my starting 7, so I have similar sentiments preventing me from killing him.
Finally, I found a gold vein, below the 3d cavern.

[Kanddak]

I don't think I've ever seen gold in granite, granite's usually full of cassiterite and native silver.
Gabbro sometimes has it but generally has more garnierite.
Diorite is the place to be for gold. Can't do a thing in a diorite layer without tripping over the stuff.

[Bartleby]

Some nice suggestions greycat.
But using burrows , makes the job very easy.
Just make a stockpile that takes only target material, define a burrow over the workshop and that stockpile.
My masons work with the following burrows: "Flux","Red","Blue","Green","Yellow"   

When you do this, do your masons leave the burrow to eat/drink/sleep?

Yes the dwarves leave their burrows, when they are thirsty/hungry/drowsy.
The only problem that arises is, they quite often take haul jobs and have to cancel them because the target is out of their burrow.
But thats just cancel-spam. (I have job cancellations off always).
However if the dwarf has a high priority job he might get stuck if he is assigned to a burrows at that moment.
Like you disable his mining skill, and he wants to bring his pick back. In this case he is stuck.
But all in all it works really well, for me the old problem, how to force the dorfs to the right material, is solved.

[jester]

My baron like bronze and bins, I love that dwarf