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[nightwhips]

Ten Dorfbucks he wants multiple kinds of cloth. How long is he sitting on the "wants... cloth" bit?

[Girlinhat]

Wow, 30+?  Did you have any remaining cloth?

[Nunzillor]

I had exactly one more piece of pig tail cloth (what he was using).  He didn't pick it up.  I had all other types of cloth, which he also didn't use.
edit: the claimed cloth count was exactly 37.

[Girlinhat]

No burrows in place?

[arzzult]

Did you have any wood for him? Your list of items he had didn't include wood and from the list of things he wanted wood was one.

[Nunzillor]

Yeah, I did have wood for him available.  And again, no, he was not burrowed.
edit: I think that this would have been the largest non-bugged artifact ever constructed.

double edit: God this is stupid.  I have another weaver with a cloth fetish.  This time he claimed all 38 of them and hasn't started.  This has to be a bug.

[tahujdt]

Is there a general alert burrow? If not, you have discovered another Planepacked.

[Dwarfu]

Is it possible some of this cloth has been partially used by the hospital, thereby making them less than 10,000 units each?

[Murphy]

Am I the only one who misread the title as "1000 Item Mod"?
*goes berserk*

[SixOfSpades]

Also, wool cloth, plant fiber cloth, and silk cloth are distinct entity types. A requirement that is specific for a type cannot be satisfied by another type.

Just thought I'd emphasize this.

Unless you're a fan of berserk/insane/melanancholy dwarves, ALWAYS have a stash of ALL THREE types of cloth. What do you think the elves are for? You don't want to lose a potential Legendary Armorsmith or Mason because you were too cheap to buy a few bolts of rope reed fiber cloth.

[dei]

Also, wool cloth, plant fiber cloth, and silk cloth are distinct entity types. A requirement that is specific for a type cannot be satisfied by another type.

Just thought I'd emphasize this.

Unless you're a fan of berserk/insane/melanancholy dwarves, ALWAYS have a stash of ALL THREE types of cloth. What do you think the elves are for? You don't want to lose a potential Legendary Armorsmith or Mason because you were too cheap to buy a few bolts of rope reed fiber cloth.

This. It's been a good idea for as long as I can remember to stock up a little bit of everything just in case your dwarves have a strange mood. I remember this being some of the advice I was given back in the 40d11 days.

After all, an insane dwarf is fun, but it's not really fun if he sends your fortress off into a tantrum spiral. Unless you like drunk midgets acting out an episode of Jerry Springer..

[acetech09]

...were too cheap to buy a few bolts of rope reed fiber cloth.

I had to explain to a friend reading over my shoulder that cloth was not used in medieval times as a crossbow ammunition.

[Nunzillor]

Well, second cloth guy went crazy.  So no planepacked. 

No, I have 0 burrows and haven't used any during this fort's life.  My fort has been on lockdown for some time due to the number of zombies (and will stay that way until I finish my pump stack) so no caravans, but I did have a little bit of each type of cloth.  I just wasn't prepared to supply so much to two strange moods. 

[MarcAFK]

That's odd, i'm going to crack open the save and see what to make of it.

[wierd]

I always keep about 200 of each type in the stockpile in case I need it.

(Need sutures, need clothes, need to satisfy a retard's mandate, need to satisfy a mood...)

I also hold on to thread for the same reason.

I also buy *every* kind of gem, and raw glass, and at least 20 bars of each kind of metal.

Sometimes moods demand very specific materials, instead of generic ones.  Eg, "I must have precious fire opal!" Or "I must have pigtail cloth!"

This is lost in translation with posessions and secretive moods, where the specific gem, fabric, metal type is not specified. It is only stated in the fey mood type. The other moot types will just say enigmatic "metal bars", "sparkling gems", etc.

I don't know if such specificity is present post 40d, when I first experienced strange moods, as the default methods I developed for dealing with them have not warranted deep investigation. I just know it was true then, and could be true now unless toady changed it. He might have, because moody dwarves used to demand impossible materials, the most infamous being crystal glass, which could not be imported in the 40d days, and could only be created with raw rock crystal gems, which were more rare than sapphire from my experiences.

(Something I took objection to, since crystal quartz is laughably common irl, to the point of being worth 50cents retail at gift store kiosks for fairly large hunks of it.)