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[Grath]

Since the custom workshops aren't at all clear yet from what I've seen, I have a suggestion for something that should be possible:
Workshops that generate power, either automatically (like windmills) or on some condition (like waterwheels, perhaps magma-powered fans that work on 'hot air' rising from the magma. In other words, a windmill-shaped construction that's powered by having magma under it like magma workshops)
Rationale for magma fans: At least some estates in Britain had mechanical devices that used a fan over the fireplace to automatically turn the spit that the meat's roasting on. I don't know exactly what period the one I saw was from, though.

[Grendus]

Since the custom workshops aren't at all clear yet from what I've seen, I have a suggestion for something that should be possible:
Workshops that generate power, either automatically (like windmills) or on some condition (like waterwheels, perhaps magma-powered fans that work on 'hot air' rising from the magma. In other words, a windmill-shaped construction that's powered by having magma under it like magma workshops)
Rationale for magma fans: At least some estates in Britain had mechanical devices that used a fan over the fireplace to automatically turn the spit that the meat's roasting on. I don't know exactly what period the one I saw was from, though.

Magma as a source of power is iffy, since the technology to harness geothermal energy is very modern, and the period DF is set in... isn't. However, custom workshops that produce power by, say, having a dwarf or work animal turn something would be very appropriate. Human and animal power were very common back in the 1400's time period.

[Warlord255]

Well, since custom workshops are going in, we'd have to see how that framework goes first and allow Toady to expand it to cover power-generation buildings. Then you'd have the soon-to-be-existing building-shape-raws to work with, plus whatever open-ended code tags can be applied for determining the power generation type.

However, the main problem would still be that we are currently limited to two types of power generation. Even if the current framework were expanded, all we'd get would be fancier windmills and water wheels. While you could do SOME things with this (like a Reactor windmill that requires Nuclear Fuel to be built), we'd still need Toady to help by adding new power types.

If the workshop types could be combined - such as a power source requiring materials and a worker - that'd be a good start without adding new hardcoding.