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[Couchmonster]

Hi there,

I cannot find the stockpile for large gems.
Tried the wiki but the page for large gems is not there.
There is just a small note on the gem page how they are made, but not where to put them.

[Darkmere]

Finished goods, type -> large gems, bottom of first page.

[NecroRebel]

Note that most large gems will not be put into finished goods stockpiles. Large gems are usually made of a gemstone. Items are put into a stockpile that accepts both their material type and their item type. Large gems go only into finished goods stockpiles. Finished goods stockpiles do not include the option to accept gemstones as a material type. So, you can't put most large gems into any stockpile; the exceptions are large glass gems. A large diamond, however, or a large onyx, or any other such large gemstone, will not be stockpiled, ever, nor will any other craft made of a gem.

[Couchmonster]

Hmm... my Trade Depot is full of them, because I bought all of them on every caravan
What to do with them now?

[krenshala]

Hmm... my Trade Depot is full of them, because I bought all of them on every caravan
What to do with them now?

Use them to [e]ncrust another finished good with them, to increase the (sale) value.

[NecroRebel]

Well, they're completely useless except as trade goods (encrusting is done with small gems, not large), so trade them away? You could dump them all on top of your jeweler's workshop, encrust each of them with another gem type to "naturalize" them, and then sell them if you wanted to increase your exported wealth as well as decrease your imported wealth. Alternatively, just atomsmash them.

[Darkmere]

Ah, my mistake on the stockpile thing. I guess I never noticed the lack of material setting since I sell those off ASAP.

[Dorf3000]

This is why I try to keep all my gem cutters with low skills, so there are less gem scepters and 'large gem' vendor trash laying around.  It's annoying in that it's really the only skill where you get less useful things the longer you train it.  If gem crafts and large gems were separate jobs with a high chance of failure then that would be a lot more sensible.

[Korva]

It's a recent bug. In my old 31.18 forts, large gems are taken to the finished goods stockpiles just fine.