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[Scruga]

there are 3 messages in the workshop
i must have logs
i must have rock
i must have cut gems

in the items in building function i saw he had obsidian and tourmalines(gems) in the workshop. there are logs 3 squares away, but he doesn't seem to get them. any help?

[SP2]

Are there any more cut gems or rocks around, just in case he needs more of them.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Gems is plural, does he have more then 1 gem? Do you have extra gems? Are they the right type?

I believe there are two kinds of gems that they need, but I don't remember for certain.

[Hyndis]

It switches to a new demand every two seconds or so. Its also quite common for a dorf to demand more than one item of the same type.

Make sure you have several of each item on the list available.

[Hackenslacker]

Plurality of the statement doesn't reflect how many of the item the dwarf actually wants. Quantity is expressed by how long the message is displayed. Also, they'll only fetch the current item in the list, so if he's stalled before getting wood, then he wants whatever item is listed before 'wood.'

[Scruga]

i guess i need more gems  another insane dwarf

[d3c0y2]

I lost both my legendary miners to this, it sucks .

The first one I didnt even lock the door on (silly me) so he went crazy and pickaxed a cook and a hammerdwarf(!!) to death before an Elitemarksdwarf had the smart idea of taking him down at range

[Scruga]

lol i lock my dwarves as soon as i don't have the stuff

[soup_alex]

My understanding is that there is a sequence in which moody dwarves will seek out components for artifacts. When they get item #3 of 6, say, on their shopping list back to the workshop, and find that they can't find/use item #4, they'll then sit in place and wait for it to become available, even if items #5 and #6 are ready and accessible. Not sure if there's any way of telling which of the ingredients in a rotating list is the one that's being waited for, other than the apparent availability of other list items, and what the little turd goes running for when it's available.

Dwarves can be quite anal about artifacts, it's true 

Also, I've seen a few instances of the same (broad category of) item listed multiple times; e.g.
Wants
Wood
Rocks
Gems
Wood
Shells
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[Gnomechomsky]

Can it also be that the required type of material isn't there?  I had a dwarf go insane wanting "tree...life" and "stone...rock".  I had six types of logs available, and who doesn't have millions of stones laying around?

I assumed he wanted some kind of stone and/or wood that wasn't present on my map, or that I hadn't dug out yet.

[Logical2u]

It's probably more related to cloth than anything.
I lost a few dwarves to the non-existent distinction between Cloth and Silk - in demands, it simply goes along the lines of Fabric/Cloth!

[Skizelo]

Can it also be that the required type of material isn't there?  I had a dwarf go insane wanting "tree...life" and "stone...rock".  I had six types of logs available, and who doesn't have millions of stones laying around?

I assumed he wanted some kind of stone and/or wood that wasn't present on my map, or that I hadn't dug out yet.

I think moods don't specify what type of material, on a matter of pragmatism (has anyone found a map with all types of gem? or even every rock).
Is that all your dwarf wants? I don't know what to tell you/

[Gnomechomsky]

I don't know...unfortunately I just moved on after he went nuts, so I can't investigate further.  All I can think of is that it might have been flashing something like wood, rock, wood, rock, <something else>, and that I didn't watch long enough, thinking it was just repeating wood and rock.

He already had about five materials, too, so it was a shame. 

[Skizelo]

They still demand items they've already gathered, which is a bit odd I think ("I demand gems! This one!")

[Skanky]

Makes sense - they are insanely jealous of their items! They will go to great lengths to make sure no other dwarf comes along and takes an ingretient back out of their workshop!