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[JoshuaFH]

So i was goin along, building my fort, and all of a sudden one of my dwarfs gets possessed. i'm thinking "aww man, why can't i get a cool mood? oh well, atleast i'm getting an artifact out of it".

the dwarf in question was a grand master miner, so i know he's probably gonna drop into of my craftsdwarf shops or the mason shop. he doesn't drop into either, he just hangs out inside his bedroom.

i check the wiki to make sure i got it right (http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Mood) and i do. so i think "well, maybe the wiki is wrong" and so i get to making every single type of shop that i don't have, and see if he'll drop into any of them.

i make every single damn shop... EVERY SINGLE ONE... even the normal forges and magma forges, and he won't come out of his room, he is determined to let the unknown forces take his sanity away.

how do i get my damn dorf to stop being so damn stubborn? or is this an odd glitch of some sort?

[Lord Dullard]

Try downloading Dwarf Companion and check his 'Mood' profile. It should tell you what type of item he wants to make.

[Magua]

It's always a Jeweler's Workshop for me, because I never build them normally.

[sneakey pete]

are you sure he's not locked in, and that the craft/masons shops are accessible, non forbidden etc?

[QuantumSawdust]

Another thing to check - dwarves DO care whether a workshop is magma powered or not for moods. So if you have magma glass furnaces but no normal glass furnaces that could cause problems, etc.

[Warlord255]

Alchemist's lab?

[Pilsu]

The workshop is probably forbidden

[JoshuaFH]

oh, yeah, i forgot to mention i mass-forbidded all stones that weren't native aluminum or native platinum. looks like that forbidded the shops too...

ok guys, nothing to see here, i totally didn't just look like an idiot just now, move along.

[Teeto_K]

This is why I make all my workshops and buildings out of blocks! n_n

[snelg]

In the end, did he manage to make something awesome from the mood? 

[JoshuaFH]

no, one of his requested ingredients was shell, the ONLY mood ingredient i didn't have, and so he went stark raving mad.

[E-mouse]

Shell tends to be a bitch for mood provisions. Especially once you've fished out the local turtle population.

[JoRo]

Shell tends to be a bitch for mood provisions. Especially once you've fished out the local turtle population.

I have half a dozen shells and bones that I keep forbidden all the time just in case.  It saved me just recently, when a moody dwarf demanded bones and I had just finished converting the latest siege into bolts and decorations.

[Axe27]

[STRONG]Shell tends to be a bitch for mood provisions. Especially once you've fished out and eaten the local turtle population.
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Fixed it for ya.