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[CapnUrist]

Sadly, I don't assign my dwarves any other labors than what they come with. Too much management, even with The Rapist. So I usually end up with a LOT of idle dwarves, usually about 60% of them. I just let them chill in my epic dining hall and when I need something moved (such as, say, the 50000 units of stone I'll have produced with the giant mining operation in preparation for my new project), they all jump to it like eager beavers.

[MythagoWoods]

Most useless? The Philosopher. Seriously. A noble who does nothing. at all. Just eats, drinks, and sleeps. And throws parties.

Yet makes no demands making him the Dwarven Buddha.

[Saetar33]

Sadly, I don't assign my dwarves any other labors than what they come with. Too much management, even with The Rapist. So I usually end up with a LOT of idle dwarves, usually about 60% of them. I just let them chill in my epic dining hall and when I need something moved (such as, say, the 50000 units of stone I'll have produced with the giant mining operation in preparation for my new project), they all jump to it like eager beavers.

Teach me how, pleeeeeeeease. >.< Getting the stone from the friggin huge magma smelter room I have to the top of the fort and then into the walls and stuff of the fort is so annoying... Since I have the Genesis mod, I usually grind all the stone away or into bolts or something....

[CapnUrist]

Mass dumping. d-b-d. To make sure your masons use it immediately, make a hole above the center of your mason's shop and put the dump zone right next to it.

It can take some time for your dwarves to dump all that stone, but it'll get there, and your mason can just sit in his shop can carve away.

[Untelligent]

Generally the only times I care about item quality are when I have equipment made, so if I get a skilless immigrant I'll just throw him on hunting or masonry or engraving or anything I don't have enough of at the moment.

[Max White]

Adequate teacher, with no other skills. What does he teach? Law?

[CapnUrist]

Adequate teacher, with no other skills. What does he teach? Law?

The Adequate Student.

[vhappylurker]

For me,the most useless immigrants are Potash Makers. Though most of my immigrants quickly get reassigned as farmers, masons, and engravers depending on what I need done at the moment.

[bucket]

Never mind all that - I just hate when I get five floods of immigrants in a row with no Miners. Thanks for making me waste metal and fuel just so I can make someone useful, jerks.

[twilightdusk]

Having a number of idle dwarves around is helpful if you use a large number of items for caravan trade. They're also useful as haulers of course, but also for making stone blocks, as they don't have quality levels.

I decided that my most recent fortress will actually be a fortress and not just a series of tunnels dug into the ground, so I have a block of masonry shops in my mine set to create rock blocks. Any idle and otherwise useless dwarves get assigned to one and start churning out blocks that get hauled to a stockpile at the surface.

Once I have a decent number I suspend the block production and have my masons start constructing the next part of my fortress wall.

So far I have a decently large outer wall 1 z-level high and 1 tile thick. I have some part of the entrance upgraded to 4 thick surrounding my drawbridge entrance with some ramps to climb on top of the wall. I eventually plan to have a several z-level tall fortress with 2-3 tile wide hallways surrounded by wall on the inside and fortifications on the outside, with archery towers used to get from floor to floor.

All my useful stuff still happens underground of course, this really started as a way to create some safe area for outdoor jobs and the idea exploded from there, but the point is that it takes a lot of manpower that I don't want to take away from useful professions.

[backflip]

I use most of my useless migrants for plant gathering/farming/fishing or as soldiers. Hungry Dorves need food, and useless peasants are great at growing wild strawberries, catching fish, and farming plump helmets.

Aren't you hurting your productivity for a good span of time by training up a bunch of farmers?

[Jacob/Lee]

Technically yes, the lower skilled the farmers are the slower they plant and the smaller stacks they produce.

[Archereon]

Okay useless or funny. Mine was a peasant his only skill was that he was an "adequate liar". I can just imagine him signing up for the expedition....

I had an entire wave of peasants with virtually no skills.

[Mr. Argent]

Technically yes, the lower skilled the farmers are the slower they plant and the smaller stacks they produce.

Right, right. I never considered that. However, i don't want any urists going to waste. perhaps i'll make more picks so i can have a bit of redundancy with my miners, in case a terrible fate befalls some of them.

[Saetar33]

A wave of 35 immigrants, all of which were bloody woodcutters on a map with no trees.  And I had no cavern layers.  :l fail much?