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[Dunamisdeos]

Hey so I might be well behind the curve here but..

I always had problems encrusting my fancy gold crafts and such. I like having vaults of gold rings and amulets and such, and I like having hoards of gems but every time I try to combine the two in an even fashion I end up with  single gold ring covered in every gem the fort has ever laid eyes on.

But recently I found out that if you go into the workshop, set a work order to check MONTHLY for various gems, it will grab a ring, slap some gems on it, then wait til next month and grab another. Also, set it to only draw from a specific pile of crafts and a specific pile of gems. It's slower, but effective if you just want hoards of jeweled goodies it works.

It'll still pop a few gems onto one thing, but you can make multiple jewelers if you want less/one type per item.

[Sarmatian123]

When using multiple stockpiles for cut gems, you can sort those gems by their value. Specially, if the most expensive cut gems are coming in through trade.

Though, I would suggest starting the base item in this encrusting process from the most expensive available material first, so it is in master quality. That means using... adamantine. On every map.

[Pvt. Pirate]

thought about working with stockpile-links too, but instead just ignored jewelers.

[Khalari]

Stockpile links are pretty much necessary IMO. No more do my dwarves run across the map and carry a boulder to make that rock mug.

It really expedites production when there's a linked stockpile.

[Pvt. Pirate]

i just thought of encrustung stone blocks to build very expensive rooms

[Sarmatian123]

i just thought of encrustung stone blocks to build very expensive rooms

Blocks have no quality. So pick cheapest material there. Make sure it is magma and water proof too. Just in case.

[Dunamisdeos]

A quick update:

I have ten jeweler's shops set up in a grid to draw from a pile of masterwork crafts and a pile of cut gems.

Seems to work really well. Each shop encrusts only one kind of gem. They are set up to do one job, then recheck daily. They encrust one thing, leave, and the thing is returned to the stockpile. They grab a random item each day from the bin.

This is sometimes a previous item, but it really does do a good job encouraging even encrusting across large amounts of crafts.

[Pvt. Pirate]

i just thought of encrustung stone blocks to build very expensive rooms

Blocks have no quality. So pick cheapest material there. Make sure it is magma and water proof too. Just in case.

oh
but i'll try this workshop-stickpile-setup-thing soon.

[mikekchar]

IIRC the key is to have haulers haul the item out of the workshop before the next job.  Otherwise they dwarf will select the item already in the workshop.  For my forts (because I have lots of on demand haulers) daily works really well.  I wish you could set the recurrance to X days (would help for milking too...)  Probably I should suggest it.

[Pvt. Pirate]

it would also help to have the stockpile action to take from a workshop with optionally forcing the dorf who just finished crafting to haul it to the stockpile.