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Graebeard

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So many soap blocks...
« on: June 07, 2012, 06:44:57 pm »

So, usually I don't bother making soap, but this time around I decided to help my little dudes keep clean.  But now whenever I build walls/floors (and believe me, I'm building a lot) I have to search through pages of giant olm soap, blue peafowl soap, alligator soap, bugbat soap, etc, etc

Is there any way to disable building constructions from soap?
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Re: So many soap blocks...
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2012, 06:51:14 pm »

Build a room entirely out of soap, for the sole purpose of containing soap. Putting it in a sealed room with a locked door would work too.

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Re: So many soap blocks...
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2012, 07:04:49 pm »

Make more containers in your hospital, the soap should disappear from the list when in those. I think.
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Re: So many soap blocks...
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2012, 08:16:25 pm »

Go into stocks and forbid it.  Forbidden materials won't show up as construction material.

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Re: So many soap blocks...
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2012, 08:32:00 pm »

Go into stocks and forbid it.  Forbidden materials won't show up as construction material.

Won't that prevent them from using it for cleaning/healthcare as well?

I'll have to try building more cabinets in the hospital.  That's a good idea.  I'll report back with results.
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Re: So many soap blocks...
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2012, 08:42:11 pm »

What you do is you build massive statues out of the animal the soap is from. IE the Unicorn statue made out of Unicorn soap i made in my current fort.
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Re: So many soap blocks...
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2012, 08:54:30 pm »

One thing that may help: Use stockpiles to move the soap away from your building site, and move stones towards your building site. (A large stone stockpile near your constructions is commonly recommended). (Materials are sorted by distance in the construction menu.)
Another: To prevent in the future, perhaps make soap out of only one type of tallow/rock nuts. Get a good amount of one type of tallow, forbid cooking on that type, and cook all the other types up.

I believe you should be able to forbid soap right from the construction's "select material" menu.
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Re: So many soap blocks...
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2012, 09:47:17 pm »

Go into stocks and forbid it.  Forbidden materials won't show up as construction material.

Won't that prevent them from using it for cleaning/healthcare as well?

I'll have to try building more cabinets in the hospital.  That's a good idea.  I'll report back with results.
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Re: So many soap blocks...
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2012, 04:44:53 pm »

This is among the reasons why I only make soap out of one type of tallow.
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Re: So many soap blocks...
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2012, 05:01:07 pm »

This is the reason I wish all lists had a filter, like when selecting goodies for trade or when in Legends Mode. To me that addition would be far more important than minecarts. I always make soap and blocks from everything available, but such filter would be extremely useful when building just about anything, choosing animals for training or dumping/forbidding from stocks menu.
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