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[SkyRender]

All of the other new professions are self-explanatory enough, except this one.  What the heck does a Spinner do?

[acetech09]

Teaching a man how to fish.

[wierd]

What spinners have always done.

Turn wool into yarn.

Using a "spinning wheel", a la rumplestiltskin, or a "distaff".

Curiously, the farmer's workshop contains neither of those devices.......

[rtg593]

Teaching a man how to fish.

I love that link

[SkyRender]

I shall blame the DF Wiki for being rather behind the times on this one.  I wasn't even aware there WAS a distinct spinning wheel device now, let alone that yarn had to be made there.

[Girlinhat]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.31:Spinning

As usual, most of the wiki has magic info.  If you go to any given page and change the link from 2012 to 2010 you'll magically get info, most times perfectly valid!

[wierd]

The game does not have spinning wheels. The dwarves apparently hold on to one end of the wool and spin around in circles really fast instead, because there are none of the needed tools in the farmer's workshop, where shearing and spinning take place.

I don't even want to know how they do the shearing without shears..... Don't. Want. To. Know.

[Girlinhat]

Simple, they usually just cut out the in-between.  They take a sheep and spin it around really fast.

[Urist Da Vinci]

...
I don't even want to know how they do the shearing without shears..... Don't. Want. To. Know.

Just like engravers, they use their beards.

[wierd]

I said I didn't want to know!
(LOL!)

(I actually had a mental image of a dwarf CHEWING the wool off a nasty, dirty sheep, getting wool stuck in his beard and teeth, then trying to "spin" the yarn, getting his beard caught in the boll, and eventually looking like a giant cave spider victim hanging from the cieling with half his beard missing.)

[NW_Kohaku]

I'm pretty sure that most dwarven workshops are run on magic tools that teleport into the workshop after a dwarf sets up a stone altar to the specific dwarven god of industry they need for that workshop.  That's why all workshops take just one stone, it's a sacrificial piece of stone to their gods, and in return, a workshop appears with all the materials they need to perform complex operations, like turning a single boulder into a working still.

However, the dwarven gods of metallurgy are more picky, and demand that dwarves bring their own anvil.

[wierd]

Well, they god of dyestuffs must be really picky then!  He demands a bucket and a barrel!

[SkyRender]

 Pretty sure at the moment it's just a case of any tool that is smaller than a pick being absent.  It's sort of implied, as a result, that every Dwarf has an invisible Batman utility belt of equally invisible tools for each and every task you can give them.  Which is about par for the course with Dwarven physics, really.

 So, looks like the DF2010 side of the Wiki is still the one to turn to for information...  I really do wish the Wiki would stop red-linking every entry without a DF2012-specific one and just send you to the DF2010 entry if there's nothing there yet...

[Girlinhat]

Your explanation is significantly less hilarious.

[ledgekindred]

Getting the wool off the sheep is easy.  They use the same technique they use to solve any problem that isn't immediately solvable by beards - they punch the wool off.

"My wool!  He, he, he punched off all my wool!"