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[Dendou]

I'm gathering my legendary items so I can combine them to super awesome crazynes.
I've got an artifact star ruby encrusted with star ruby and an artifact raw adamantine mechanism decorated with raw adamantine.  I've been training up a gem setter for a couple years to legenday and want to encrust the mechanism with the ruby.  I lock my setter in an area with access only to the artifact room and a jewlers workshop.  But, he cancels the job stating that there were no star rubies.  Is there any way I can fix this.

[geoduck]

I'm gathering my legendary items so I can combine them to super awesome crazynes.
I've got an artifact star ruby encrusted with star ruby and an artifact raw adamantine mechanism decorated with raw adamantine.  I've been training up a gem setter for a couple years to legenday and want to encrust the mechanism with the ruby.  I lock my setter in an area with access only to the artifact room and a jewlers workshop.  But, he cancels the job stating that there were no star rubies.  Is there any way I can fix this.

I suspect you can't encrust artifacts onto anything.

[Elvang]

Pretty sure you can't encrust an artifact with another artifact, I don't think you can even encrust an artifact with normal gems.

Anyone know the maxage for creatures that don't have the [MAXAGE:x:x] tag, like fire imps?

[NecroRebel]

Anyone know the maxage for creatures that don't have the [MAXAGE:x:x] tag, like fire imps?

A hundred quadrillion years, minimum. If a creature has no MAXAGE tag, it doesn't die of old age.

And yeah, I'm pretty sure that once an artifact is made, it's utterly static. Also, you can only encrust things with small gems, while perfect (artifact) gems are a subset of large gems.

[sproingie]

A hundred quadrillion years, minimum. If a creature has no MAXAGE tag, it doesn't die of old age.

I suspect after two billion and some change years things get funny when the signed 32-bit value wraps around to negative age.  Suffice to say "old enough"

[Cheddarius]

How do I keep my dwarves from being really stupid when I tell them to get inside? What I mean is I get ambushed by six squads of goblins or whatnot, I tell everyone to get in so I can bring up the drawbridge, and then they rush in. A second later, they're safely inside, and then they run out again to do something. This repeats, so they never get inside where I can pull the bridge safely...

[Heliman]

ok, besides typing o>i (dwarves stay indoors) you also have to eliminate reasons fo them to go outside.

first type o>r>o (dwarves ignore refuse from outside)
then d>b>f and mass select all the things that's already outside that your dwarves would want to get.

[nil]

Also, make about 10 spaces on your side of the drawbridge "outside."  That way, they'll cancel any outside jobs and head back inside long before they reach the bridge.

[Cheddarius]

How do I make things outside or inside? That seems the simplest way.

Also, I've assigned a bunch of animals to be hurled ungraciously in a pit I have, but nobody's doing it. When I assign goblins to be thrown, they do it (although they usually freak out and run away from the goblins already in the pit) but with the animals they don't. Why could this be?

[Heliman]

make light constantly touch it

[assimilateur]

make light constantly touch it

What's important is that once light has touched something, it's forever outside for the purpose of standing orders, and I think farming.

[Sphalerite]

I'm gathering my legendary items so I can combine them to super awesome crazynes.
I've got an artifact star ruby encrusted with star ruby and an artifact raw adamantine mechanism decorated with raw adamantine.  I've been training up a gem setter for a couple years to legenday and want to encrust the mechanism with the ruby.  I lock my setter in an area with access only to the artifact room and a jewlers workshop.  But, he cancels the job stating that there were no star rubies.  Is there any way I can fix this.

Your artifact star ruby is a 'Large Gem'.  You can only encrust objects with 'cut gems', not with a 'Large Gem'.

[Heliman]

make light constantly touch it

What's important is that once light has touched something, it's forever outside for the purpose of standing orders, and I think farming.

technically yes, but while dwarves do not care about it, exposed and recovered areas are treated as "Light" and "inside" at the same time, the dwarves are staying away from things with the "Light" tag when ordered to stay inside, apparently.

[rufio]

Yeah, I'm talking about the zero_rent setting in the init. I'm not sure if it'll work, because the economy proper can't be disabled once it triggers; hence, the same might be true for rents.

Just coming back to clarify that retroactively setting zero_rent in init does work.

[Heliman]

How much time does a creature have to be pregnant before it gives birth? (Did not know how to put this any better)