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[Fenrisson]

"04/27/2012 Toady One Finishing up some random things to make carts worthwhile. You can hook up track stops to levers to disengage them and you can also set the friction amount when you build them. Workshops can be set to give only to selected stockpiles and stockpiles can be set to only accept goods from their links (other piles/workshops/vehicles)."

I hope now Urist McCrafty wont run fifteen levels down, making major not-shortcuts to some worthless stone when he was supposed to use Obsidian for the Floodgate which is lying directly in front of his Workshop... 

[Corai]

.....Title is related to content HOW?

[BigFatStupidHead]

I think you've got that backwards. Workshops can be set to GIVE only to selected stockpiles, not take from.

I feel your pain.

@Corai: Do you really not get how?

[Corai]

"Mica thrones encrusted with diamonds"

"No longer going to run all over to get stuff"


No.

[Sadrice]

"Mica Thrones encrusted with Diamonds"


"Being able to select what goes into the stockpile next to the jewelers shop a little more reliably"

[Corai]

I get it now, worthless stone made with valuables.

[Blizzlord]

It would be nice it Toady made this possible without colossal fort-wide workarounds.

"No, not the microcline! You are supposed to use the obsidian!"
"Eff you! I craft what I want!"

[caddybear]

Stocks screen forbid forbid forbid forbid forbid. Mason Urist makes the first few thrones out of obsidian then learns about the new dining room mining expedition and goes "Hey those microcline 10 levels down aren't forbidden, I'm going to go make some thrones out of it as well!"

Engage facepalm.

[Sadrice]

There's also how the dwarf picks materials close to their current location, not close to the workshop.  Whenever I want, say, 5 cinnabar mechanisms, I always order at least 6, because the first one will always be either microcline or mudstone.


As annoying as it is, I've always kinda liked how independent minded dwarves are about their craftwork.  They're artists, and will not hamper their creativity just because of some silly government policy.

[Blizzlord]

There's also how the dwarf picks materials close to their current location, not close to the workshop.  Whenever I want, say, 5 cinnabar mechanisms, I always order at least 6, because the first one will always be either microcline or mudstone.


As annoying as it is, I've always kinda liked how independent minded dwarves are about their craftwork.  They're artists, and will not hamper their creativity just because of some silly government policy.

Government policies would be a common hinder in the ways of art, since there are things they forbid you to use and depict, like a statue of communism made from body parts.

[Sadrice]

Damn nobles and their oppressive obscenity laws...

[Blizzlord]

Damn nobles and their oppressive obscenity laws...

Exactly! DF is the perfect virtual reality simulator.

[Loud Whispers]

I get it now, worthless stone made with valuables.

1. Dwarf has a candy battle axe in front of it, two tiles away. Is told to encrust it with diamonds.
2. There's a mica throne 1 tile away, below it.
3. It chooses to spend a century acquiring the mica throne, to stud it with diamonds.
4. The potential value from the diamonds is almost entirely destroyed.
5. Diamonds are rare. Never seen a single one before.

[Fenrisson]

Hmpf,

I guess you're right, there still seems to be no way to stop my little artist from crafting with whatever there Urist McSpidey-sense let feel to be the closest item in range even when the way to it is half around the world....

But still at least a lot of pain in pile-management will be reduced by this new feature.

I'll keep hoping that at some point it will be easier to let my lovely axe swinging alcoholics know what material to use in which Workshop.

Although its one of the FUN things in DF managing the chaos, rather than having every work by it self.   

[Deathworks]

Hello!

Ah, I remember the glorious times when we could at least tell the mason's workshop what general color of stone to use or not to use (it has been a while, so my memory might be a bit fuzzy)... at least the general tone of things was controllable.

Anyhow, with the improved stockpile management/movement, it should be easier to reduce the probability of such incidents. After all, the dwarven behavior is relatively predictable, so having the desired item directly below/above the workshop tile and placing a cut green glass command before the encrust command should in most cases yield the desired result...

Yours,
Deathworks