Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Ravendarksky]

Also you can add that Dwarf Therapist has a sort by highest moodable skill option which makes it quick and easy to see what your potential moods are.

This lets you prioritize the training of dwarfs with useless moods. It also helps to be selective in your training of certain types. For example I make all my craftdwarfs/masons/miners/engravers the same dwarfs... thus limiting the amount of crappy artifacts I get.

[EvilBob22]

I could be wrong, but I thought moody dwarves didn't need fuel for forges (non-magma ones).

[ShadowHammer]

I could be wrong, but I thought moody dwarves didn't need fuel for forges (non-magma ones).

They don't, but apparently (I've never tested) if a magma forge runs out of magma/power during artifact creation then the mood immediately fails. Clarification anyone?

[sirdave79]

My current fort has a population of 80 and has manafactured 80 artifacts. Most of them were steel armour and weapons. Ive deliberately not tried to mine adamantite yet at this fort.

Dwarven preferences for items and materials have strong effects on the outcome of strange moods. However, it is my experience, that if your fort never smelts a copper (as an example) producing boulder then a dwarf with a preference for copper can be made to use steel by having any traded copper bars/melted goblinite forbidden (my choice of methods for controlling artifact material which some people also consider cheating/exploity). However if you smelt a copper boulder (ie tetrahedrite), your dwarf with a preference for copper will absolutely insist on using copper (even if you dont have any on hand) BARRING the availability of adamantite (which it seems everyone will use if on hand and not forbidden regardless of material preferences. Initially the forbidding was done by a blanket designation over stockpiles but now I use the stocks menu.

So far I do all my moodable skill training manually examining every dwarf and picking a skill based on his preferences and my desired outcome for him and then manually assigning a labour and manually adding jobs at the forge until training is complete. All non masterwork stuff then gets melted.

I do need to get into using profiles/managers, that trick with the repeating job and setting skill levels would alleviate a lot of tedium.

[milo christiansen]

Examining preferences and choosing your artifact ahead of time sounds like a lot of work, but the reward may very well be worth it.
The problem is that I am too lazy to do things like that