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[Linenoise02]

Loving the clothing fix, but one thing that I'm finding difficult is making sure everyone has clothes.  Quick story, then a question:

Fort going along nicely, working on getting a textile industry set up, but I haven't had a chance to grow and harvest many pig tails yet.  Suddenly I get a report that a child is tantruming.  I check on his status, and he's got no pants.  He runs around and punches a few people (I assume they deserved it), luckily nothing serious.  Ok, so I need to make pants, but I've got no cloth or thread.  But there is an elven trader sitting at my depot.  I've also got 3 new hammerdwarves that need some practice.  It's a win-win!

Send the hammerdwarves over, and kill the elves without difficult.  Take their cloth bins, make pants.  The Great Trouser Crisis is averted.  There's still 2 yaks left from the elven caravan, so I decide to send the hammerdwarves after them for more practice.  They beat on the yak cow for a bit, and finally kill her.  The yak bull, on the other hand...  he runs up on top of the wall of my fort, gets cornered, then bites one dwarf in the head, ripping it off.  He then bites the second dwarf in the arm, ripping it off, and throwing him to the ground below.  The third hammerdwarf survives because he decided to take a nap.  I see that the yak has now been given a name, and decide to call a truce and let it live out its life in my fort.  Strangely, I found it most often in the tombs, near the coffin of the dwarf whose head it bit off.  Long story short, lack of pants is a serious thing.

So now the question - how are you all keeping your little psychopaths clothed?  There are so many articles of clothing, and so many dwarves, that going through them all one by one isn't really feasible.  If only shoes, pants, and shirts matter, the only thing I can think of is every year to crank out N shirts, N pants, and N*2 shoes, where N is the number of dwarves living there.  Anyone have a more elegant solution?

[Girlinhat]

Shoes, gloves, socks, gauntlets, etc are produced in pairs, so that's still cool.

Personally, when it becomes an issue for me I plan to utilize DFHack.  the workflow command allows you to specify "keep X amount of items stocked."  I do this with booze already, just "keep 500 booze" and forget about it.  Similarly, "keep 15 pants" will have your clothiers get to work every time your pant situation becomes dire.

[Michaelsoftman]

I prefer to mod out clothing and have my Dwarves running around completely nude.

COMPLETELY NUDE.

[Berserkenstein]

I prefer to mod out clothing and have my Dwarves running around completely nude.

COMPLETELY NUDE.

That supposedly gives your dwarves an unhappy thought now, although I don't know for sure because I have never had to do it.

[lucusLoC]

I let the goblins cloth my masses. it seems that the goblins and the dorfs are close enough in size that it works, either that or clothing is not longer tracked by size. most of my for is running around (near as i can tell) in reclaimed troll hair robes.

also, elven yaks are bloody tanks. i had one go all enraged on me because i didn't build a depot and it killed damn near 30 of my dorfs. they are huge, take tons of damage and can gore and bite. for a little trained squad its like taking on a colossus.

[SkyRender]

 I don't seem to be having much luck with keeping my Dwarves clothed even with an active clothing industry.  Either I have a very rabid workforce of Dwarves that demands fresh clothes every 5 minutes, or babies who mature into children at forts don't understand the importance of picking up clothing, but the end result is that any and all Dwarves born at my forts turn into tantruming tyke bombs the second they hit age 2.  Am I missing something here, or is there a way to quell this infantile rage and perhaps prevent adult Dwarves from auto-claiming every pair of trousers in existence the second they get a little hole in their current pair?

[Garath]

goblins fuel my clothing industry

[werechicken]

My dwarfs wear allot of leather, it's cheap to buy, relatively simple to make and you don't have to worry about your hospitals stealing all your raw materials.

[Mitchewawa]

GCS silk is extremely easy to get in large qualities, and with 3 looms and 3 clothier shops I can keep my 100 population fortress afloat when it comes to trousers.

[Darksilverhawk]

Well, it's not like the goblins who came by are using it anymore. Socks for everyone!

(At least, this averted the initial unhappiness as my entire fortress ran outside and picked up the goblinite that I never bothered to clean up. Though I am noticing they're going through it pretty fast and xcave spider silk socksx are starting to pile up now...)

[Galarzaa]

I made a new game, and so far I haven't had to worry about that... but I have to start producing clothes soon...

Some time after embarking, I noticed all the water froze (I'm 100% sure the area had a warm weather...), so I wasn't ready at all for that, so some dwarves started dying of thirst, then, causing other dwarves to throw tantrums... resulting in only 2 dwarves left by the time winter was over and, lots of clothes scattered all over the map.

So, I have spare clothing just for a while...

[slothen]

if the clothing industry is a bottleneck, you should be able to import large amounts of cloth and leather long before your dwarves clothes rot and fall off.  If its an issue of avoiding tantrums, you don't have to grow, process, and spin the cloth yourself.

[slink]

I asked the Dwarven caravan for leather and for a wonder they brought lots of it.  Unfortunately I didn't have as much to trade for it as I'd hoped, but I got enough bins to make shoes and lederhosen for the children.  They were still pissed about having no shirts, but life is hard on the frontier, what can I say?

[arphen]

really if you request leather from the caravan prepare for shittons of leather

[lucusLoC]

if you have too many xcave spider silk socksx give them to the caravan. i wait for my dorfs to un-own them and have a stockpile set up for the stuff right next to my depot. it *seems* to be working in this version, as i don't actually see a whole lot of the old stuff in the bedrooms, and the stockpile is always full (a few dorfs do have a lot of worn out clothing they keep, but that may be a personality issue??). after it gets there i just use that to purchase anything i want from the traders.