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[Grendus]

Why do they always want silk. I've got stockpiles overflowing with fine-woven pig tail cloth that's been expertly dyed, but they want friggin silk cloth. And it's too early in the fortress for the silk cloth I ordered (since I always order it because they ALWAYS want silk) to have arrived with the dwarven caravans, I lost my highly skilled clothier.

Has anyone ever actually seen a dwarf demand plant fiber cloth? Seriously, except for when I modify the mood with DwarfCompanion (which I haven't been able to get to work recently) they never want plant fiber.

[milaga]

Preferences suck. But this is why I always try to embark with at least a single thread of cave spider silk.

Recently I've decided to forget about preferences and try to roll with the punches. It's bad to lose a strong dwarf because you don't have an item on hand, but micromanaging specific resources takes a lot of time. I'm beginning to find it more fun to deal with the loss and tantrums then keeping checklists and excel spreadsheets or stocks.

And yeah, what I find the most annoying is that a well run fort will get a lot of migrants in the first wave and start mooding long before you get anything you ask for. Even if it's something as basic as cave spider silk.

[Jim Groovester]

In my current fort, I have an overabundance of cave spider silk and a lack of plant fiber cloth. (Goblins can neither farm the plants that produce thread nor process them.)

So I have noticed moods needing plant fiber cloth.