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[Goran]

It would be nice is studding could be managable in some way. Since metals are a finite strategic resource I'd rather not waste them on unimportant stuff. Basically, I'd prefer to be able to designate what my artisans should stud with metal, or decorate with bone, shell, gems, etc. Thus my steel armour would get studded with platinum, my swords encrusted with gems and my bins, barrels and mechanisms... not.

[Ascii Kid]

That would be cool, but it would haveto involve some sort of mass material tool or the exact details of every piece of gear they made would drive you crazy.
I just think about when you make 20 beds, or 20 sets of bolts, to have to assign a particular gem or not to each one would be frustrating, I would think.

[BurnedToast]

for now, you can simply make a 1 tile stockpile to hold only the thing you want studded right next to the forge. Dwarves will grab the nearest thing, and that will be it. Keep a close eye on them and cancel the task if they somehow grab the wrong thing.

One thing to keep in mind, I had trouble getting my soldiers to wear decorated armor but that was quite a few versions ago the bug might have been fixed.

[slMagnvox]

I just scanned dev_now cause I swear I could've remembered reading this was being added but couldn't find what I thought I read.  It was a good suggestion, must've been on these forums instead.  The concept was in the stocks screen you could mark an item as allow decorations and then decorate, stud with metal, encrust with gems, sew image, all those jobs would only allow items marked for decoration.  Otherwise, cancels Stud with platinum, no items allowed for decoration

EDIT:  Here it is .. http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=4694.0