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[Fruitpunch]

I have a dwarf who is in a strange mood. He is asking for 4 metal bars, and 1 piece of thread (he's a metalcrafter). So far, I have seen him take 2 bars of aluminum, and I have 2 more waiting for him, as well as a piece of cloth and a piece of thread, yet he just stays at the forge doing nothing. He's been in a fey mood since mid summer game time and now it's early autumn. How much longer do I have until he goes insane?

Also i'm on 40D not DF2010, any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

[Quietust]

I have seen him take 2 bars of aluminum, and I have 2 more waiting for him

2 more bars of Aluminum, or just 2 more bars of metal in general?

Also, does he want plant fiber cloth or silk cloth? If it's a Fey Mood, it should say exactly which one is needed.

[Fruitpunch]

2 more bars of aluminum. And he's possessed so it doesn't say which.

[K4el]

I have a dwarf who is in a strange mood. He is asking for 4 metal bars, and 1 piece of thread (he's a metalcrafter). So far, I have seen him take 2 bars of aluminum, and I have 2 more waiting for him, as well as a piece of cloth and a piece of thread, yet he just stays at the forge doing nothing. He's been in a fey mood since mid summer game time and now it's early autumn. How much longer do I have until he goes insane?

Also i'm on 40D not DF2010, any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance

Cloth thread made from plant fiber and thread made from silk are distinct items... though when a possesed dwarf is craving one or the other the disctintion is not made obvious through the workshop display. I recommend making both available and seeing what happens.

Also, if you weren't aware already. For every 2 seconds a particular message is dispalyed it represents 1 unit of required material.

So "shining bars of metal" displayed for 10 seconds would mean your dwarf is after 5 bars of metal.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Mood

spoiler for a quote from the wiki demonstrate the cloth confusion.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Demands
Once a workshop is claimed, the dwarf will begin collecting materials. Each artifact will require between one and ten materials to complete. If the moody dwarf remains idle, then the necessary materials are not available. Forbidden items must be reclaimed (d - b - c) before they may be used, but moody dwarves will ignore settings regarding economic stone. Press q and highlight the workshop to receive a series of clues about what the dwarf needs. Hints that stay active for longer than 2 seconds mean that multiple pieces of that material will be required; each single demand will be displayed for 2 seconds, so if it says "gems... shining" for 6 seconds, 3 gems are demanded. Materials will always be fetched in order, so if at least one item has already been retrieved (the items will show up with "TSK" ("task") next to them when the workshop is viewed with the t context menu), it will usually be possible to tell what item is required next.

If you want your dwarves to construct their artifacts out of valuable materials instead of whatever useless thing happens to be close at hand, you can selectively forbid types of material through the stocks screen so that only the material you want them to use is available; though this might interfere with the normal crafting operations of your fortress, the disruption is generally short-lived (as long as you remember to unforbid them again afterwards!). You can even forbid something a moody dwarf is carrying (which may be necessary sometimes, since while they are not waiting in the workshop they will not tell you what they need); the dwarf will finish hauling it to the workshop, but then immediately go searching for another. This trick can mean the difference between a bauxite statue decorated with moss agates and a native platinum statue encrusted with diamonds.

As of DF2010, burrows seem to allow even better control over moody dwarfs' material usage. Simply by creating a burrow around claimed workshop and another part over desired material, moody dwarf can be controlled without forbidding every single stone in fortress. Moody dwarf will follow the burrow-definitions just like a regular worker.

The various demands are translated here:

Material  Fey  Secretive  Possessed 
 <dwarf> screams "I must have <demand>!"  <dwarf> sketches pictures of <demand>.  <dwarf> mutters "<artifact> needs <demand>..." 
Stone  rock  a quarry  stone... rock 
Stone block  rock blocks  square blocks  blocks... bricks 
Wood  wood logs  a forest  tree... life 
Metal bar  metal bars  shining bars of metal  bars... metal 
Gems (cut)  cut gems  cut gems  gems... shining 
Gems (raw)  rough gems  rough gems  rough... color 
Glass (green)  raw green glass  glass  raw... green 
Glass (clear)  clear glassVerify  glass and burning wood  raw... clear 
Glass (crystal)  crystal glassVerify  rough gems and glass  raw... crystal 
Bone  bones  skeletons  bones... yes 
Shell  shells  a shell  a shell... 
Leather  tanned hides  stacked leather  leather... skin 
Cloth (plant)  plant fiber cloth  stacked cloth  cloth... thread 
Cloth (silk)  silk cloth  stacked cloth  cloth... thread 
Bones or Shell  body parts   

Fey dwarves will sometimes ask for rock bars. This is just a typographical error, and they are actually asking for one of several objects. (Disputed -- Discuss)



Source: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Mood#ixzz0qZSrsb7U