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[Ravenplucker]

Hey everyone. I'm considering starting up my first textile industry. I was considering a kindof sweatshop production line. Each dorf would have access to his workshop (loom, clothier etc), his material and his product stockpiles.

The ones in square brackets and bold are stockpiles.

Grower <---> [PLANT] <----> Thresher <----> [THREAD] <----> Weaver <----> [CLOTH] <----> Clothier <----> [TRADE DEPOT]

Of course, none of them can leave their workstations. They will each have a small bed and a pool of water. Food will be dropped in from above.

Any recommendations? Hints? Advice?

 

[Exiledhero99]

Just one bit of advice: use new migrants. They never have friends when they come in and if your going to be giving them as bad of working conditions as I think you are, your not going to want them dorfs to have loved ones bitching when they throw tantrums.

[twilightdusk]

Don't forget to give them access to their supply stockpiles in addition to their output stockpiles.

Grower needs access to seeds and a place to put the plants
Thresher needs access to the plants and and a place to put the thread
Weaver needs access to the thread and a place to put the cloth
Clothier needs access to the cloth and a place to put the finished goods

Also keep in mind that while dwarves can live off of water, they prefer not to and it slows down their work. If you're dumping them food anyway, it's probably worth it to dump them alcohol as well. Or add a second grower to the equation who is in charge of supplying the other workers with food and drink.

[slothen]

don't forget DYE

[Xenos]

don't forget DYE

This.  Also, try using leather to decorate the items (if you can)

[Aramco]

Just a suggestion-- build a magma dropper to punish any Dwarves who try to 'take breaks.'

[Ravenplucker]

Don't forget to give them access to their supply stockpiles in addition to their output stockpiles.

Grower needs access to seeds and a place to put the plants
Thresher needs access to the plants and and a place to put the thread
Weaver needs access to the thread and a place to put the cloth
Clothier needs access to the cloth and a place to put the finished goods

Also keep in mind that while dwarves can live off of water, they prefer not to and it slows down their work. If you're dumping them food anyway, it's probably worth it to dump them alcohol as well. Or add a second grower to the equation who is in charge of supplying the other workers with food and drink.

It will all be connected in series. The stockpile where the product is placed is the same stockpile where the next dwarf gets his materials.

And woops, I forgot dye.

And call me un-dwarfy if you wish, but I may have removed the alcohol_dependant tag from the raws... 

[Acperience]

Don't forget to give them access to their supply stockpiles in addition to their output stockpiles.

Grower needs access to seeds and a place to put the plants
Thresher needs access to the plants and and a place to put the thread
Weaver needs access to the thread and a place to put the cloth
Clothier needs access to the cloth and a place to put the finished goods

Also keep in mind that while dwarves can live off of water, they prefer not to and it slows down their work. If you're dumping them food anyway, it's probably worth it to dump them alcohol as well. Or add a second grower to the equation who is in charge of supplying the other workers with food and drink.

It will all be connected in series. The stockpile where the product is placed is the same stockpile where the next dwarf gets his materials.

And woops, I forgot dye.

And call me un-dwarfy if you wish, but I may have removed the alcohol_dependant tag from the raws... 

HIGH TREASON. HERESY. TRAITOR.

[twilightdusk]

And woops, I forgot dye.

And call me un-dwarfy if you wish, but I may have removed the alcohol_dependant tag from the raws... 

Fair enough I suppose, you might want to build a well for each of them just for the sake of expediency and good thoughts though. I'm assuming you're going to use above-ground farm plots so you can get cloth all year round? that gives you 2-3 choices of dye (Dependant on if silver barb is available). Add in a second chain of Farmer --> plant --> miller --> dye --> dyer --> apply dye to thread/cloth.

[Frogwarrior]

If you want, you can always have another dorf sew images onto everything. Every item can have at most one sewn image. This would also require you to possibly have a second dye line, since it means two units of dye per finished item.

[duckInferno]

And call me un-dwarfy if you wish, but I may have removed the alcohol_dependant tag from the raws... 

[Ravenplucker]

If you think I'm a heretic now, let me just say that all of my fortresses are built above ground 
But in a way it's more dwarfy, because it's so much more difficult.
I also embark on aquifers.

BACK ON TOPIC!

So if I'm dyeing twice, will that mean I will have to have a seperate branch diverging from the thread stockpile?

[Xenos]

If you think I'm a heretic now, let me just say that all of my fortresses are built above ground 
But in a way it's more dwarfy, because it's so much more difficult.
I also embark on aquifers.

BACK ON TOPIC!

So if I'm dyeing twice, will that mean I will have to have a seperate branch diverging from the thread stockpile?

Dying really is only a parallel for a little bit so it is just Grower=>food=>miller=>different food=>dyer=>clothier/weaver

And why are you dying twice?

[Ravenplucker]

If you think I'm a heretic now, let me just say that all of my fortresses are built above ground 
But in a way it's more dwarfy, because it's so much more difficult.
I also embark on aquifers.

BACK ON TOPIC!

So if I'm dyeing twice, will that mean I will have to have a seperate branch diverging from the thread stockpile?

Dying really is only a parallel for a little bit so it is just Grower=>food=>miller=>different food=>dyer=>clothier/weaver

And why are you dying twice?

Dyeing the thread used to sew images onto the dyed clothing.

[Xenos]

If you think I'm a heretic now, let me just say that all of my fortresses are built above ground 
But in a way it's more dwarfy, because it's so much more difficult.
I also embark on aquifers.

BACK ON TOPIC!

So if I'm dyeing twice, will that mean I will have to have a seperate branch diverging from the thread stockpile?

Dying really is only a parallel for a little bit so it is just Grower=>food=>miller=>different food=>dyer=>clothier/weaver

And why are you dying twice?

Dyeing the thread used to sew images onto the dyed clothing.

Just dye all thread and set the loom to only weave dyed thread.  This way you only dye once and you can still have colorful images on items.