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[sjaakwortel]

Is there a way to make dumping items a LOW priority task ?

_{You can try to make it foolproof, but fools are so bloody ingenious}

[Kipi]

Is there a way to make dumping items a LOW priority task ?

As far as I know, no. The priorities of different tasks are hardcoded.

[DFPongo]

Thanks Malicus,
that must be it, I started with the newbys walk through and that has Mayday included.
Great response, I will fix that and roll back to an earlier save so I can have Jet everything.

[Jacob/Lee]

I have a metalsmith stricken with a strange mood she claims a magma forge blah blah blah. And after a long time I finally figured out her mystery metal is silver because she prefers it and now she is collecting everything else, could she go insane while collecting it or while she is making it?

[Diablous]

I have a metalsmith stricken with a strange mood she claims a magma forge blah blah blah. And after a long time I finally figured out her mystery metal is silver because she prefers it and now she is collecting everything else, could she go insane while collecting it or while she is making it?

No.

[Malicus]

I have a metalsmith stricken with a strange mood she claims a magma forge blah blah blah. And after a long time I finally figured out her mystery metal is silver because she prefers it and now she is collecting everything else, could she go insane while collecting it or while she is making it?

Dwarves have been known to go insane while collecting their final material after having waited a long time.  A dwarf won't go insane if they've started work on it, though. (Unless that work is interrupted.)

[Rolan7]

I have a metalsmith stricken with a strange mood she claims a magma forge blah blah blah. And after a long time I finally figured out her mystery metal is silver because she prefers it and now she is collecting everything else, could she go insane while collecting it or while she is making it?

Dwarves have been known to go insane while collecting their final material after having waited a long time.  A dwarf won't go insane if they've started work on it, though. (Unless that work is interrupted.)

This is true.  Also, it's in the wiki! (:
http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Strange_mood
It's at the bottom in the "failure" section.

Not complaining mind you - answering questions is kinda fun, particularly in a thread like this where they aren't cluttering the topics list.

[DFPongo]

Magma smelter issues.
I get no magma options in by build menus.
I have found a pool. filled channels below the forge room with 6/7 magma, dug a one square channel down. mined 20 bauxite.
But I get no options for the magma forge or the magma smelter.
They do not even show up in the menus.
Sigh.

[Garrie]

Magma smelter issues.
I get no magma options in by build menus.
I have found a pool. filled channels below the forge room with 6/7 magma, dug a one square channel down. mined 20 bauxite.
But I get no options for the magma forge or the magma smelter.
They do not even show up in the menus.
Sigh.

Are you saying you get options for "normal" metalsmith forge / smelter / glassmaking furnace, but not magma ones?

[Garrie]

Can someone point me to a guide on how to find an underground river?

I embarked on a map with one, I've found the magma pipe (24 tiles from map edge....), now I just need to find my underground river so I can work out where to put my obsidian factory.

I've never had underground river before.

It looks weird having a unit list full of dead amphibians I've never seen.

Edit: I want a exploratory mining method not a link to reveal please.

[Garrie]

Is there a way to make dumping items a LOW priority task ?

Only allocate "refuse hauling" to LOW priority dwarfs? 

[G-Flex]

Can someone point me to a guide on how to find an underground river?

I embarked on a map with one, I've found the magma pipe (24 tiles from map edge....), now I just need to find my underground river so I can work out where to put my obsidian factory.

I've never had underground river before.

It looks weird having a unit list full of dead amphibians I've never seen.

Edit: I want a exploratory mining method not a link to reveal please.

You don't need exploratory mining methods as much if you just set (in the init file or worldgen parameters) such features to be visible on embark: Then you'd know about where on the map the feature is, and would be able to just dig a few shafts down and find it.

Alternatively, since this isn't an option for you right now (since you're already playing), pressing shift+D (depot access map) should help, as the undiscovered feature tiles should be marked differently from the solid rock tiles around it.

Just  plain exploratory mining is difficult in a case like this, because you have no idea where on the map it might be.

[smokingwreckage]

To find Underground River:

You can download and run Visual Fortress, it will show you map features if you "allow" it to. I use it just for that.

[DFPongo]

Magma smelter issues.
I get no magma options in by build menus.
I have found a pool. filled channels below the forge room with 6/7 magma, dug a one square channel down. mined 20 bauxite.
But I get no options for the magma forge or the magma smelter.
They do not even show up in the menus.
Sigh.

Are you saying you get options for "normal" metalsmith forge / smelter / glassmaking furnace, but not magma ones?

Yes

[kralmir]

Magma smelter issues.
I get no magma options in by build menus.
I have found a pool. filled channels below the forge room with 6/7 magma, dug a one square channel down. mined 20 bauxite.
But I get no options for the magma forge or the magma smelter.
They do not even show up in the menus.
Sigh.

Are you saying you get options for "normal" metalsmith forge / smelter / glassmaking furnace, but not magma ones?

Yes

did you discover it when you dug into it and got a message for it, or did you use a program like reveal.exe to locate the magma? or was it visible on the surface when you started?