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Author Topic: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.  (Read 3366 times)

Akkristor

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I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« on: May 05, 2009, 11:19:16 pm »
I did this with an earlier fortress, ended up with ~80 Obsidian Statues.


I just realized I did it again in my current fort, this time with a Craftdwarf Workshop making Obsidian Short Swords, and three (3!) Magma Forges making Large Serrated Iron Disks.

For over a year in game....

By the time I noticed this to make my weapon traps, i had 90 Obsidian Short Swords ready, and 290 (Yes, two-hundred-ninety) disks.

My jaw dropped.
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2009, 11:22:38 pm »
Quote from: Akkristor on May 05, 2009, 11:19:16 pm
and 290 (Yes, two-hundred-ninety) disks.

My jaw dropped.
So did mine 0_o Where did you get so much iron?!?!?!
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2009, 11:24:20 pm »
On my first fort, I didn't know that being Legendary made you work faster, I thought it only improved the quality of the goods.

So I set my mason to repeatedly make rock doors.

Pretty soon I had about 450 rock doors without noticing. =|
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2009, 12:03:19 am »
290 friggen disks? thats the set up for one masive corridor of traps!  ;D
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Akkristor

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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2009, 12:15:54 am »
I've found five or so veins of Magnetite, and i know of two more at least that i haven't dug into, and i'm STILL not low on Iron.

I switched over from Wooden barrels and bins to Iron ones too, simply because I have more Iron than Wood.
« Last Edit: May 06, 2009, 12:17:58 am by Akkristor »
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2009, 12:51:11 am »
a few magnetite deposits will do that... and with magma, you're set for life. (well not life, but a really really really long time)
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2009, 01:30:59 am »
Hehe never done this myself, but then I just use the job manager.

[edit] added "use".
« Last Edit: May 06, 2009, 02:30:02 am by Vattic »
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2009, 01:57:22 am »
Quote from: Vattic on May 06, 2009, 01:30:59 am
I just the job manager.

The whole thing?
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2009, 02:09:04 am »
Quote from: PopeRichardCorey on May 06, 2009, 01:57:22 am
Quote from: Vattic on May 06, 2009, 01:30:59 am
I just the job manager.

The whole thing?
Hard to segregate your blockmakers from masterwork door carvers, aint it?
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2009, 02:27:45 am »
Quote from: ousire on May 06, 2009, 12:03:19 am
290 friggen disks? thats the set up for one masive corridor of traps!  ;D

If only they could be fired from ballistae. :)

I have a similar surplus of iron in my current fort thanks in large part to magnetite and magma. I've got about two thousand chunks of magnetite mined out and awaiting refinement, eight hundred bars of iron, and three hundred bars of steel. I intend to turn every last drop into steel, so I'm making extensive deliberate use of workshops set to repeat.
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2009, 02:34:59 am »
And that's what I get for making posts just before bed.

Quote from: Time Kitten on May 06, 2009, 02:09:04 am
Hard to segregate your blockmakers from masterwork door carvers, aint it?

You are correct, I tend to run small forts though, few dwarves anyway and so this problem hasn't cropped up yet. Now I've said that I'll most likely end up with 100s of doors or similar...
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2009, 02:47:14 am »
heh, i once left a room full of magma glass forges all set to collect sand / r and create green glass block / r

9+ legendary glassmakers and more bricks than I'd even need for my tower after forgetting about it for awhile
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2009, 03:43:46 am »
500 silk bags, i just wanted to waste some silk >_<
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2009, 03:45:53 am »
Actually, probably a good choice, since it makes quite a bit more value than anything you could get out of using coffers or boxxes for your dwarve's rooms when they start collecting junk.
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Re: I seem to have this tendancy to put workshops on repeat, and then forget.
« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2009, 04:07:33 am »
The only things I put on repeat are drinks, lavish meals, crafts and sometimes barrels. It works.
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