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[Scruffy]

When you think of dwarves what is among the first things that come to your minds?
The answer is beards.

My question is how to make sheared dwarven hair spinnable.
I have no problem making my dwarves forcibly drag eachother to the farmer's workshop and shave their comrades bald and beardless but I don't seem to be able to make them actually spin the produced hair even after adding the [yarn] token to their hair material.
Currently I just end up with a fort full of dwarves with "clean-shaven" facial hair and a pile of Urist head hair.
(By the way, it is fun reading "Urist cancels xxx: Handling a dangerous creature" and seeing a dwarf dragging another dwarf.)

[Replica]

Don't take my word for it.
But it might (and I stress, MIGHT) be an ethics related issue.
Try setting dwarven ethics to make it acceptable to make trophies from the same race and see what happens.

[Scruffy]

Don't take my word for it.
But it might (and I stress, MIGHT) be an ethics related issue.
Try setting dwarven ethics to make it acceptable to make trophies from the same race and see what happens.

Already tried that but it didn't seem to work.

[Quietust]

It's possible that the hair is too short to even amount to a single unit of thread, therefore they don't bother messing with it.

[Scruffy]

It's possible that the hair is too short to even amount to a single unit of thread, therefore they don't bother messing with it.

Hmm, I have set the shearing lenght to 100 urists instead of the usual 300 for sheep/trolls/furry critters.
I will try modding hairier dorfs and test it at 300 urists. (So I don't have to wait for their beards to grow to 300)

[Scruffy]

Nope, still can't get it to work.
Is there something preventing from using any dwarf-based materials for crafting?

Well, I suppose that I could try making dwarven beards from a custom materials and making a new reaction.