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[Momaw]

I would like Toady to consider a change where items to be melted are gathered into "batches" of 1 total bar recovered metal, and that each batch-melt only requires 1 piece of fuel to perform.

Currently:

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1 ore + 1 fuel => 1 metal
1 item + 1 fuel => 1/n metal

Proposed:

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1 ore + 1 fuel => 1 metal
n items + 1 fuel => 1 metal

This would make melting useful for those players who do not have magma on hand as an endless fuel source.

[profit]

No magma?!

Blasphemy!!!!!


(but yes this does make sense.)

[Strife26]

There'd have to be an option to melt less than one bar's worth, and the fraction problem would come up again (if I have something that's worth 1.5 bars). But I like it.

[Anticheese]

A good suggestion that should make it into the game at some stage.

[Jadael]

There'd have to be an option to melt less than one bar's worth...

Why?

[praguepride]

For when you want to melt but don't have enough items on hand to make a full bar.

My suggestion would be to add them to the forge's inventory until there is 1 bar's worth of material to melt.

[Fossaman]

There's not really any point in melting them if you can't pull out a full bar, so why should you be able to trigger the task if you don't have sufficient weight of metal for it? Kinda like the kitchen, where you have to have enough items to make a meal with.

[Derakon]

The reason presumably would be to get the items in question removed from your stock list.

[numeral]

Bumped + if giving the melt an item job was changed to a melt all designated items job where haulers instead of a FO gets the items it wouldn't take 3 years to melt a sizable amount of items

[Momaw]

You bring up a good point, namely that if you have the Furnace Operator assigned to the melt job do all the hauling of items, they will use up a lot of time and probably "give up" a lot of jobs to go drinking.  But instead of having all dwarves haul melt-designated items to the furnace, I think it would be a more elegant solution to add an option for Melt-Designated Items in the stockpiles configuration.  That way all the stuff to be melted will only be a couple of steps away from the furnace and not cost any appreciable time to move.

[LordDemon]

I'd be happy with stockpile set for "melt designated".

As for the patch melting, I think it should go like this:

1) Dwarf chooses item ot melt.
2) Dwarf checks, if melting this item creates a bar with whatever the fraction at furnace is. If yes, melt item and create the bar, save any remaining fractions.
3)If melting object would not be enough to form a bar after melting, get another object to melt of same material type. If no other melt designated object of same material exists, proceed with melting.
4)Jump into 2, but calculate with both/all selected items.

This way the dwarf would group the items, if there are many, and rougly use 1 fuel per 1 metal. Otherwise melting would work as it does now.