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[Marsume]

Just wondering if anyone may know but if a noble makes a mandate on certain material types- admantine for example- if that means there is the possibility of finding it on site. One of my nobles has just forbade the export of admantine and well there isn't any. Just seems a bit odd.

[Sofaspud]

I've been wondering this myself, though not about the adamantine.  My mayor keeps mandating large cut gems.  I have plenty of SMALL gems, but I don't seem to be having any luck finding enough large ones to suit him.  Does this mean that there are actually large gems scattered around still, or should I just make ready to drown him next time he asks?  

[Bogdanov]

To Sofaspud : i'm not a hundred percent sure on this but i think all gems have the potential to become large gems, in my opinion, it only depends if the gem cutter is skilled or not, it will happen more or less often

I've found a large clutter of rough smoky opals (or whatever their name was), and cut them all in my Jeweler's Workshop : i ended up with 2 Large Smoky Opals and a big bunch of regular Smoky Opals

For the opening post, if the nobles mandates are anything like the fey dwarves demands, then i think i remember reading somewhere they won't ever ask for something you would not be able to produce, ie, they won't ask for glass if your map has no sand at all.. but they may ask for adamantine even if you haven't found it yet, just as long as you've mined deep enough to reach the Z-level the adamantine is on

[Yobgod]

Nobles appear to make mandates relating to things they "like".
They don't have any magic clairvoyance about whether the item is possible given your local resources.

For example, my mayor just asked for crystal glass items. I saved and checked with reveal.exe and there is not a single square of rock crystal on my map.

I've asked the human guild rep to bring us rock crystals next year... we'll see how that works.

[Troas]

Sofaspud:  if you have sand on the map, start producing raw green glass in bulk.  This can be cut by jewelers to skill up and large glass gems do satisfy the "large gem" mandate from nobles.  You may want to make secondary glass furnaces that are dedicated to sand collection so that you don't have to interrupt your glassmaker.