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[Leatra]

My miner is taken by a fey mood but he just goes around the main dining room. He isn't doing anything. It's been around 20 game days. What I'm gonna do now? He might go berserk in any minute.

He is only a miner so he doesn't have any business with workshops.

[foop]

If he really has no moodable skills he'll be waiting for a craftsdorf's workshop to be built.  If you already have one of those and it's accessible to him, then the mood must be in another skill.  Does he have no dabbling or above skills other than mining?

[WrathNail]

A moody dwarf doesn't necessarily want to create an artifact related to his latest job. Check the skills screen. That should give you an idea of what kind of workshop he is waiting for. Alternatively, build all workshops and he'll grab one of them eventually.

EDIT: Aaaaand ninja'd

[Leatra]

Thanks for the quick answers.

Bowyer, wood burner, pump operator. Others are social and military skills. I have noticed that there are no bowyer's workshop in my fortress. I'm gonna build one and see what happens

[Fellhuhn]

Another remark: Those pesky dwarves sometimes want a specific kind of forge/glass furnaces and are not happy if you only have magma glass furnaces etc.

[Leatra]

Thanks a lot guys. My miner has created Etur Kokeb, an oaken blowgun. I thought the mood can only be in skills which you have enabled for them. I learnt an another lesson. It's time to learn more

Community of DF is great.

[Fellhuhn]

It is the highest skill that is used, regardless of its activation.

[Earthquake Damage]

It is the highest skill that is used, regardless of its activation.

IIRC that only applies to moodable skills above Dabbling.  AFAIK only the skill level is checked, not the skill XP.

[Quietust]

If your miner took over a bowyer's workshop, then he wasn't really a Miner - he was a Bowyer who you reassigned to mining duty. The mining skill is moodable, and moody miners typically take over a Mason's workshop and produce a piece of stone furniture (and gain lots of Mining experience in the process). Similarly, the Engraving skill is also moodable and typically results in the dwarf taking over a craftsdwarf's workshop and producing a stone craft.