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[GauHelldragon]

In my last game, my broker demanded the construction of an obsidian statue in a dining hall. How do I build an obsidian statue? Do I have to just keeping dozens and dozens of statues until I get lucky and my dwarf decides to pick up the obsidian stone instead of the hundreds of others to choose?

[ussdefiant]

you can specify that they only use dark stone when building something. Only 3 types of those i think, and obsidian's common enough.

[Toady One]

Although granted, a lot of the production mandates are way too specific given the current interface.

[Solara]

It would be nice if you could specify what items like statues and tables and thrones were made out of. I notice that a lot of times I start off with dwarves that like the same kind of rock, and always figured a good way to increase happiness would be to make everything in the dining hall out of it.

[GauHelldragon]

quote:Originally posted by ussdefiant:
<STRONG>you can specify that they only use dark stone when building something. Only 3 types of those i think, and obsidian's common enough.</STRONG>

You can designate with some stuff ( craft items ), but you can't with statues

[Toady One]

Yeah, I don't think that's unreasonable.  Controlling individual dwarves is bad, but particular tasks are fine.  The interfaces is somewhat tricky, but if it worked a little more like the jeweler's shop perhaps, it would be okay.

[Garthor]

Perhaps creating items of a specific type would be limited to the manager interface, which is searchable and thus wouldn't add too much to interface clutter.

I'm not sure how the manager interface interacts with the workshops, though, so I don't know if that would be possible.

[Toady One]

You could do it to some extent, though I think I'd have to work a little harder to get them to use specific types of stone, just as far as game infrastructure goes.  Not a super hard change though.