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[alphawolf29]

I have a masonry workshop far off from my main fort, with stacks of gold next to it, and the whole hallway to the mason is L for low traffic, and yet he still hauls shale for miles to the masonry workshop to construct statues instead of the gold right there.

How do i get my mason to use the gold right next to the workshop, and not the shitty shale?

[Duke 2.0]

 Gold is an ore stone, so most masonry tasks won't take it. Because you know, metal gold is better than gold ore. To disable that for some awesome stone thrones, go to the z screen and select stones. Then select gold from the list, so it is no longer forbidden.

[Malicus]

Masonry is done with stones, not metal.  You need to make a metalsmith's forge to make something out of gold.  You also need to smelt it into bars at a smelter, if you haven't yet.  Gold nuggets are technically still ore.

...or you could do what Duke said.

[alphawolf29]

Wow stupid me, i even knew about that page. Sorry for the time wasting and thanks for a speedy reply! (As in, i alt tabbed for two secs and the answer was here..)


edit: Gold nuggets are enabled and he is still going far out of his way to grab other rocks (You used to be able to mason ore, can you do this no longer?)

[loose nut]

Lock (forbid passage on) the doors on your mason when he gets to your workshop/ nugget stockpile, he'll work with what he's got then.

[Grendus]

Gold nuggets are, by default, treated like economic stones. Go into the stones menu and enable them. Watch your stockpile though, I've done that and had my craftsdwarves come to make native platinum ore mugs, was really pissed about that. You may want to disable all other stone crafting in your fort while your statues are made.

PS: I believe that ores have the same material value. Checking the wiki, platinum nuggets have a value of 40, same as the bars. The only difference is you need 3 bars for a statue but only one nugget.

[gtmattz]

Wow stupid me, i even knew about that page. Sorry for the time wasting and thanks for a speedy reply! (As in, i alt tabbed for two secs and the answer was here..)


edit: Gold nuggets are enabled and he is still going far out of his way to grab other rocks (You used to be able to mason ore, can you do this no longer?)

Try disabling everything BUT the gold nuggets and see what happens.  It is possible that there is some shale a few z levels above or below that he is thinking is closer so is running off to get that instead of the gold that is near him.

[Untelligent]

Try disabling everything BUT the gold nuggets and see what happens.  It is possible that there is some shale a few z levels above or below that he is thinking is closer so is running off to get that instead of the gold that is near him.

Generic stone like shale wouldn't be on that list unless he's using the mod that puts them there, though.

[pushy]

Try disabling everything BUT the gold nuggets and see what happens.  It is possible that there is some shale a few z levels above or below that he is thinking is closer so is running off to get that instead of the gold that is near him.

Generic stone like shale wouldn't be on that list unless he's using the mod that puts them there, though.

Several solutions to that, a number of which have been outlined in http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=38459.0 very recently