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[Gergination]

I think you're doing something horribly wrong or wonderfully right.  It all depends on what you are going for.

On an unrelated note the title made me think you had a foreign trader get possessed and grab a workshop.  I wish that could happen.

[tefalo]

Haha, i'd like to see an elf trader get a fell mood. :D

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Haha, i'd like to see an elf trader get a fell mood.

Same, though I'd like to see the elf grab another elf...

"Hippy, the Elven Diplomat, can created Magmadeath, an Elf Bone Platemail!"

[Stargrave]

time honored solution to moody dwarves that are about to go beserk: cage trap.
no risk to the general population. the dwarves that have relationships with the moody dwarf wont get a negative thought because the beserk dwarf dosent die. you can even put them on display in the dining hall and your dwarves can entertain themselves by throwing crumbs from their suryp biscuits at the beserk dwarf in the cage.

[Diakron]

... you can even put them on display in the dining hall and your dwarves can entertain themselves by throwing crumbs from their suryp biscuits at the beserk dwarf in the cage.

I laughed for a full minute after reading this.

[Mungrul]

time honored solution to moody dwarves that are about to go beserk: cage trap.

Oh gods. You've just triggered some sort of OCD switch in my head. From now on, every workshop is going to be surrounded by cage traps in all of the fortresses I ever make :E

[pushy]

Anyway, she did get a cat's eye, and seems to be stuck on cloth... thread. Which means she probably wants silk.

Even if you regularly use cloth (cloth socks and mittens are a common export from my forts), it's an easy thing to keep on top of for moods by buying thread from traders or collecting it from a chasm or bottomless pit and either never building a loom or changing the auto-loom settings ([o] [W] [l]) so that only dyed thread is turned into silk/cloth automatically; that way, if you desperately need cloth or silk for a mood, there will still be undyed thread lying around that you can have woven especially for that mood as and when it's required

Oh gods. You've just triggered some sort of OCD switch in my head. From now on, every workshop is going to be surrounded by cage traps in all of the fortresses I ever make :E

You'll have PLENTY time to realise that a dwarf isn't going to complete their mood, so have some mechanisms and cages in a stockpile or something, and if you find a moody dwarf who you won't be able to satisfy, send the mechanics in No need to waste time and materials building traps around every workshop

[Starver]

I had a mood-goer, the other day who I specifically found out wanted "plant fiber [sic*] cloth", or other explicit words to that effect.  It was mentioned that it was plant, definitely.  So I forbade the entire lower quality plant fibre bolts of cloth so as to guarantee take-up of the extra special quality stocks, and later on I found that the dwarf had used some of the lower quality CS Silk cloth.  Higher value than the PF stuff, but inferior to some of the quite nice GCS stuff that I had hanging around for just such occasions...

Either that or I had suddenly become unable to read, although I'm really not convinced that's what happened.

[* - Please excuse my Anglocentric attitude to some of the Americocentric spellings in DF. ]

[tefalo]

Now this is just silly. The trader now has two babies.

Edit: She went startk raving mad, but isn't considered dangerous it appears. She's just walking around.

[pushy]

Now this is just silly. The trader now has two babies.

Edit: She went startk raving mad, but isn't considered dangerous it appears. She's just walking around.

She'll die of dehydration or starvation soon enough, then.

[tefalo]

That was the case. But my computer semi-crashed so she's alive now again.

[Stargrave]

time honored solution to moody dwarves that are about to go beserk: cage trap.

Oh gods. You've just triggered some sort of OCD switch in my head. From now on, every workshop is going to be surrounded by cage traps in all of the fortresses I ever make :E

i went through the same thing at first when i was exposed to this course of action. it can be needlessly time consuming to make cages and mechanisims for every workshop. i find its best to set up cage traps on a workshop as needed as it dosent take too long to set one up but it does take a fair sum of time for a moody dwarf to get the 'zerk

[Satarus]

I always embark with some silk cloth just in case I get a mood before traders bring some silk.

[Gergination]

My supply of turtle shells is running dangerously low.  Will turtles spawn in a murky pool tile if I fill it up manually?