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[Wiles]

I think the concept behind fey moods is neat, but I find them to be frustrating. Most of the time I don't have what the dwarf needs (and absolutely no way to get it). I've lost 2 of my best dwarves so far this game because they went berserk. I doubt they'll be the last either.

[FFLaguna]

All I need was rock crystals...ROCK CRYSTALS!! Now I lost one of my legendary miners.   I'll never forget the day.

[MindSnap]

In this new version there are so many more type of items that completing a mood will be a miracle. That's why I turned them off.

[Locus]

quote:Originally posted by MindSnap:
<STRONG>In this new version there are so many more type of items that completing a mood will be a miracle. That's why I turned them off.</STRONG>

Nah, two for two successes so far over at my fortress, both legendary miners now. Rock is rock, generally.

[ November 02, 2007: Message edited by: Locus ]

[Lightning4]

I think they only pick items you actually have a reasonable chance of getting.

[Beleghoul]

My first artifact in the new version required iron bars [which were available] and chert blocks [which i didn't have but made right away since i was sitting on a load of chert]. I can't remember the second artifact but i think it was a similar setup. So yeah, just like Lightning4 said, they choose stuff you already have or can make  from what you've got. I don't think they'll require gold nuggets, which you don't have yet but somehow the dwarf knows they're on the map somewhere.

Just my 5 cents.

[Wiles]

Both times my dwarves wanted things I couldn't get.

[Sparksol]

A friend of mine had some trouble with moody dwarves on an aquafer map...after training a dog or two, she ended up using the premature burial method by digging a trench under them, and putting a floor over it after making sure they were in there.. This was in the main dining hall, by the way.

[elipsis]

I've had two fey moods.

One was a jewler who would not use a jewling shop or a clothing shop (he was pro jewl cutter, pro setter, and dabbling clothes maker) and he went berserk.

the other was a cook, pro cook, novice farmer. He claimed a kitchen (or farmer's workshop i forget) but didn't get his materials and went emo after a while.

if i get a few more no-goes I'll most likely disable them.

[aeroue]

I have had about 5 i think. 3 of them worked perfect. The other 2 I did not have the workshops and they bummed around till they went mad.

[Wiles]

I'm on my 4th fey mood. He's going to die because I have found no gems to cut.  
My first mood was okay; but the three after that were pretty much dwarf death sentences.

[Skyrage]

Guess that fey moods is something that needs a bit of reworking

[Sowelu]

By the sound of things they seem to be working fine, to me at least.

Me, I saved last night after getting my first new-version fey mood.  I *think* I have enough wood to make the metal he's after, as long as I can figure out what it is.  (I'm sitting directly on nickel and such, but there's veins of native gold and silver exposed all over the cliffs.)

[Earthquake Damage]

Might anyone have a clue why my fey metalsmith (ver 33a) won't claim a workshop?  I've built nearly every type of workshop.  The only things I don't have are a millstone and an alchemist's shop.  I didn't yet have a forge constructed when he went fey so I built one, but he doesn't seem interested now that it's there.  Do I have to build it in a subterranean zone or something?  I know previous moody dwarves were happy enough with above-ground facilities, but...

Even though I finally got him to claim a forge by building one centered on him, the fact remains that he refused to move toward one.

[ November 03, 2007: Message edited by: Earthquake Damage ]

[FFLaguna]

quote:Originally posted by Earthquake Damage:
<STRONG>Might anyone have a clue why my fey metalsmith (ver 33a) won't claim a workshop?  I've built nearly every type of workshop.  The only things I don't have are a millstone and an alchemist's shop.  I didn't yet have a forge constructed when he went fey so I built one, but he doesn't seem interested now that it's there.  Do I have to build it in a subterranean zone or something?  I know previous moody dwarves were happy enough with above-ground facilities, but...

Even though I finally got him to claim a forge by building one centered on him, the fact remains that he refused to move toward one.

[ November 03, 2007: Message edited by: Earthquake Damage ]</STRONG>

Did you build magma variants, too? I bet that's what has you caught up...