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Videospirit

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Smoothing Stone
« on: Today at 05:29:56 am »
So It's been quite some time since I last played dwarf fortress and someone seems to have taken a butcher's knife to the UI and stripped away my ability to assign labors to individuals dwarves so I'm not sure if it's a bug or I'm not configuring things right.

I have a light aquifer I'm trying to dig through and build my fortress beneath it. I've dug it out now, designated the tiles to be smoothed to stop the flow of water and... there are no smooth stone tasks in the task list. I assigned both stone cutting and stone engraving workflows to some dwarves but they just stand around with no job.
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Blue_Dwarf

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Re: Smoothing Stone
« Reply #1 on: Today at 07:08:01 am »
This is normal. The smooth stone task will only get added to the task list once it is assigned to a stonecutter.

Mayby you can find a reason why your stonecutters are not assigned these tasks. Maybe they are actually busy with something, or there is no pathing (or the walls are submerged etc).
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Videospirit

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Re: Smoothing Stone
« Reply #2 on: Today at 03:39:38 pm »
Hmm I finally got them to start doing work by setting the only specialists can do this button for the engraving work. Nobody would do it when it was set to everyone can do this.

Now I'm trying to make sense of the new inferior trade negotiation screen. I can't tell if I'm requesting a good or not everything starts lit up by default, and clicking on a good just grays it out. No way I can see to set a priority for a good I want or what and I can't tell what it means when a good is lit up or grayed out.
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