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Author Topic: Strange mood, what do I need?  (Read 1705 times)

Blue_Dwarf

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Re: Strange mood, what do I need?
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2023, 02:10:19 am »

Your dwarf is posessed, so he may require a specific material for something. A specific tree type, a specific gem type, or a specific metal bar type.
Where did you get that idea from?
My experience, and the wiki. Posessed dwarves can and will ask for specific materials.
Personal experience can suggest patterns that don't actually exist, and the wiki is only as accurate as the people who edit it. That being said, I've tried my best to document the exact behavior of strange moods on the wiki (based on decompiling the game's strange mood code), but that doesn't stop other people from adding incorrect information based on incomplete observations.

That particular remark was added by an anonymous user (who had not made any other edits), and I just checked against a disassembly of version 0.50.08 and could not find any evidence of such behavior, so I removed it.
The pattern I observed may not be what it seems, but OP's issue is 100% a specific material of something. Whether a specific metal bars, gems or raw glass or whatever.
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Re: Strange mood, what do I need?
« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2023, 04:31:31 am »

Just curious, maybe OP can upload the save file somewhere?

By the way, are you sure all the materials are accessible?
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