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[Bauta]

What is the easiest way to create adamantine artefacts ?
I have a army of weaponsmiths but they seem to be great fans of zinc shortswords instead of using the adamantine wavers right next to them

[StagnantSoul]

Ban every metal but adamantine when they go moody.

[Urist Sonuvagimli]

The only way to enforce adamantine usage is to forbid ALL the other metal bars present on the map. It is best done when you have a single large stockpile for all the metals, as it becomes easy to simply d-b-f  it.

In case you see moody dwarf hauling some other metal, you can Forbid the bar in his inventory. It will be dropped and dwarf will attempt to find another.

[Bauta]

Very helpfull thanks guys
I was about to create special sections with a burrow system, forbididng things is way easier 

[gchristopher]

Look for dwarves that like axes or other desirable weapon types and make sure weaponsmithing is their highest moodable skill.

[vettlingr]

Make a burrow for the dwarf with the strange mood, confining him or her to the workshop and the adamantine ore or wafer stockpile always works for me. That is, if you have designated a stockpile that is only for adamantine, otherwise the !!FORBID EVERYTHING!! method works fine, but is more tedious.

The only time I have actively tried to prevent an adamantine artifact being made, was when my weaponsmith, who had a preference for warhammers, demanded metal bars. though with strange moods, sometimes normal bars are not okay, rather they must have adamantine wafers. Needless to say, forbidding everything and designating a burrow (over my platinum stockpile) did not work, and now I sit here with a useless adamantine warhammer.

Atleast my hammerer will be happy *Winkerty wink*

[Findulidas]

You can also have stockpiles of the stuff around the smiths and similar so that when they go out and get a random material its likely to be the one you want.

[Squirrelloid]

I'm a fan of the forbid method.  I always watch the full list of what the moody dwarf wants, and then arrange high value items for as many of them as I can be made to care about.

Adamantine bludgeons, however, are annoying.  I've got a fortress with 2 adamantine warhammers, an adamantine mace, and an adamantine spiked ball... because adamantine bludgeons, yo.  (They all specifically demanded adamantine, and most didn't even prefer the crafted item).

[Quietust]

If you have at least one stockpiled adamantine wafer before the mood starts, then any moody metalworkers should be insisting on using adamantine wafers as the base component of their item (and refusing to use anything else, as if it was their Favorite metal), unless Toady changed something semi-recently. The same should be true for Clothiers and Weavers with adamantine cloth.

If you have stockpiled wafers and they aren't being used, then check to make sure they aren't forbidden or restricted by stockpile links or something.