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ashta_ku

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Newb needs help: how do I display crafts?
« on: April 11, 2010, 01:56:16 pm »

Specifically, how do I display Legendary Artifact craft items that I currently have in my finished goods stockpile? I have build a lavish statue garden with alcoves in the wall for these items, but I cannot figure out how to move them into the holding area.

Designiating the alcoves as finished goods stockpiles that accept only artifact quality does not seem to work  :(

It may be pertinent to mention that these artifacts were built by a previous set of inhabitants (playing "Reclaim Fortress" after making the mistake of not having a military and leaving the back door unlocked).

Can anyone assist me with this? I would love to get my museum garden up and running.
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Re: Newb needs help: how do I display crafts?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2010, 02:05:29 pm »

You got the right idea on your stockpile only accepting high quality items but you also have to set your previous stockpile to not accept any high quality items.

Also I do remember hearing something about reclaimed stuff not working right so if the previous suggestion doesn't work that's probably why.
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Re: Newb needs help: how do I display crafts?
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2010, 03:40:40 pm »

discounting any weirdness related to reclaiming, you could try setting the target, high quality stockpile to (t)ake from the regular stockpile that the artifact currently resides in.

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Re: Newb needs help: how do I display crafts?
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2010, 03:59:54 pm »

Thanks for the help guys :)

I've tried the additional steps you mentioned, but I can't get my folks to haul the artifacts to their niches. I am starting to suspect that it might be an issue related to reclaim mode.

So... I built some nice statues for the niches instead... better than nothing  :-\
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Re: Newb needs help: how do I display crafts?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2010, 04:04:49 pm »

IIRC, all objects left behind when you reclaim an area start out as forbidden. You can claim things over an area with [d] (b) [c]. If you wanna check if your artifacts (or whatever) are forbidden, loo[k] at them. They'll have curly braces around their name.
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Re: Newb needs help: how do I display crafts?
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2010, 04:33:07 pm »

IIRC, all objects left behind when you reclaim an area start out as forbidden. You can claim things over an area with [d] [c]. If you wanna check if your artifacts (or whatever) are forbidden, loo[k] at them. They'll have curly braces around their name.

Hmmmm.... I believe I claimed them before (thats how they got to the finished goods store in the first place, when I batch-claimed everything I could find on the map), but its true they seem to be behaving like forbidden objects.

I've gone ahead and re-forbidden them (interestingly, even when forbidden they did not show any special markings), then re-re-claimed.

I recently did my first mood, so I am working on a vault to store my artifacts in. I guess when its done we will see if that worked for the old ones :)
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