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[Zankaru]

Am seriously shocked and confused here, ive never failed to get crafters the materials they need before. One of my founding farmers who only had fields farming turned on for the last year now (was originally an axedwarf if that helps any), claimed a craftdwarfs workshop and then spent a good 30mins running around my fort doing who knows what.

After that she sat at the workshop and the text was "dwarf sketches image of waterfall, dwarf sketches image of something, dwarf sketches image of something" Obviously I cant remember the other two. Anyways she just went 'stark raving mad' and started running around my fortress. I was busy and didnt know that when she wanst moving that she wasnt working on the artifact since there was no demand text.

Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? Wiki wasnt any help, possibly due to me entering wrong searches.

[corvvs]

The image sketching is related to the items she needs to complete her project. The difference between that and shouting "I NEED SHELLS!" is due to the type of mood she's in (fey vs. secretive vs. possessed vs. whatever). Can't tell you what a picture of a waterfall means as far as requirements though... shells maybe?

[Zankaru]

The image sketching is related to the items she needs to complete her project. The difference between that and shouting "I NEED SHELLS!" is due to the type of mood she's in (fey vs. secretive vs. possessed vs. whatever). Can't tell you what a picture of a waterfall means as far as requirements though... shells maybe?

Well I have shells, the only thing I can think of that I am missing is cloth but never had a crafter use cloth in an artifact. Got plenty of shells, bones, metal (iron/steel/gold/platnium) and gems.

[Quietust]

Dwarves in secretive moods never sketch images of waterfalls. If one of them was "stacked cloth", then that's probably what she was locked on, whether plant fiber or silk.

[Albedo]

Wiki wasnt any help, possibly due to me entering wrong searches.

Did you try "mood"? Because all the known secretive sketchings are translated in that article.

(And, yeah, no "waterfalls")

[Zankaru]

Dont think it was 'waterfall' either, lot of stuff was going on and only skimmed the message a few times. Oh well, dead now, atleast I will know next time.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Note that stacked cloth can be annoying, because it doesn't say what kind of cloth. They can want either plant fiber or silk. If they want plant fiber, they won't use silk, and if they want silk, they won't use plant fiber.

It can be fustrating to dump 10 bins of silk by them, have them go insane, and later realize they wanted rope reed cloth.

[HammerHand]

Furthermore, moody Dwarves will occasionally want a SPECIFIC KIND of cloth, stone, wood, or whatever.  If they want "Marble," for instance, they will only say they want Stone.  Usually they're content to grab whatever, but every now and then they want something from their personal preferences (their likes noted in their profile).

And they'll use anything in an artifact.  I'm sorry for the loss of your founder, and for the loss of your farmer, no less, but live and learn.

Oh, and I don't see "Leather" on your list.  You might want to fix that, either by caravan or butcher/tanner.  It's good to have some of everything, even if you don't plan to use it.

[Zankaru]

Furthermore, moody Dwarves will occasionally want a SPECIFIC KIND of cloth, stone, wood, or whatever.  If they want "Marble," for instance, they will only say they want Stone.  Usually they're content to grab whatever, but every now and then they want something from their personal preferences (their likes noted in their profile).

And they'll use anything in an artifact.  I'm sorry for the loss of your founder, and for the loss of your farmer, no less, but live and learn.

Oh, and I don't see "Leather" on your list.  You might want to fix that, either by caravan or butcher/tanner.  It's good to have some of everything, even if you don't plan to use it.

Yeah didnt have any previous to that, I dont bother with butchering (except to prevent a catsplosion) and tanning, too much bother, so whenever the dwarf merchants show up I buy all the leather bins.