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[VerdantSF]

I'm having trouble fulfilling a strange mood.  I'm familiar with what it takes to complete them, but for some reason, the currently possessed dwarf won't budge, despite having all the materials.  I double-checked in DFHack with "showmood" and got the following:

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There are plenty of stones available and none are restricted in use.  I also have crates upon crates of all the other items listed here.  I'm playing in a mature fort (58 years) with plenty of successful artifacts, so I'm not sure why I'm having trouble all of a sudden.

[Akura]

Check the kid's preferences. He might be wanting a boulder of a specific material.

...Then again, that should be the first thing he grabs, not the second.

[laularukyrumo]

Do they actually demand prefstring items or just prefer them if they exist?

Alternatively, burrows? Personally I would just skewer him with a ballista and be done with it, but I'm not exactly a forgiving ruler.

[VerdantSF]

Alternatively, burrows?

OMG, *headsmack*.  With all my excitement over finding the second cavern layer and a magma pool for the first time, I totally forgot this very, very basic thing.  Thank you for the reminder!  The kid was assigned to the "kindergarten" burrow!  Now he's picking things up just fine .

[Drazinononda]

Do they actually demand prefstring items or just prefer them if they exist?

Alternatively, burrows? Personally I would just skewer him with a ballista and be done with it, but I'm not exactly a forgiving ruler.

Your dwarves must have a very sad existence.

Urist McMayor: "Wellll, there goes another one... He's claimed the Z -71 Magma Forge."
Limul Managersohn: "Really? But surely you don't..."
Urist: "Yes, round up siege engineers and draw straws. I'll check the schedule to see when we can get the loser a vacation in the statue garden as an apology."
Limul: "If he survives that long. The last time we had to set up a ballista down there, the engineer died of thirst on the third trip."
Urist: "Well, get Doren Ben-Mason started on another coffin, just in case. And a slab for good measure."

[Larix]

Do they actually demand prefstring items or just prefer them if they exist?

I'm not aware of that with stones (or wood, or bone types), but a dwarf in a smithing mood may require a preferred metal if you've already made bars of that type in your fort. In a fey mood, they'll even explicitly say 'I need zinc bars!' or whatever (have fun with the resulting zinc short sword...).

I wasn't at all surprised that the actual culprit turned out to be a burrow assignment, though.

[krenshala]

I'm just surprised Verdant missed that.  Of course, with his experience at the game I'm not surprised he started thinking at the complex end of the possible culprit spectrum.  Its a hazard I have to constantly watch out for when troubleshooting network problems at work (Is it a bizarre routing loop?  Nope, the network cable went bad so it didn't get link. Derp).