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Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« on: May 13, 2011, 10:40:10 am »
So, in my last fortress I had a dwarf become possessed. Rather than take over a craftdwarf's shop as he should have he just sat in his room and starved to death.
In my new fortress, another dwarf came down with a strange mood. There were four shops here, as opposed to the one that was around in the last fort, and he still sat in his room and starved to death. It's happening again, this time with a secretive mood. They should all be heading to a craftdwarf's shop, as far as I can tell. And if not, all the other strange mood related workshops are available.
What needs to be done here?
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2011, 10:43:26 am »
Build every workshop you don't have one of.
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2011, 10:45:36 am »
Normally they only sit around when the workshop they want is not available. Are the workshops forbidden? Or does the dwarf have another skill, like masonry or metalcrafter, that needs a different workshop?

What are the dwarf's skills? He should demand the workshop that corresponds with the highest moodable skill he has. If he doesn't have any moodable skills (only thresher or soapmaker etc) then he'll go for craftsdwarf as default.
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2011, 10:48:51 am »
And also, you may just not have any of the specific materials they "need"... Dwarves are fussy like that.
Check their personality page, see what materials they like?
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2011, 10:51:10 am »
In all cases their only skills have been stuff like lyemaking, beekeeping, and pressing. Occasionally they have some combat skills. The only moodable workshop I don't yet have that they might need is a butchery, and I'm building that right now. All the workshops are available. Four of the five craftdwarf's shops require that you be of "expert" level or higher to use, but nobody is actively working in the fifth one that's been reserved for the less-capable dwarves so I don't know what's going on.

I could understand them dieing if I didn't provide the materials they want, but they aren't even claiming workshops to begin with.
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2011, 10:52:21 am »
Do you have any non-magma forges/glass furnaces/(maybe) kilns?
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2011, 11:01:20 am »
I don't have access to magma yet, so yes.

This farmer is a dabbling mason and a novice tanner, so he should be heading to one of those, right?
He's (rusty) in tanning, so could it be possible that the state of a keyed-skill being (rusty) is preventing the dwarf from claiming the requisite shop?
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2011, 11:02:49 am »
No, tanners need a leather works.
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2011, 11:10:46 am »
Quote from: Yoink on May 13, 2011, 10:48:51 am
And also, you may just not have any of the specific materials they "need"... Dwarves are fussy like that.
Check their personality page, see what materials they like?
That'd only happen after claiming a shop.
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2011, 11:11:37 am »
Hm...alright.

I built a second leatherworks, and the farmer finally left his room. Sadly, he went berserk halfway up the stairs.
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2011, 02:29:38 pm »
You don't have the workshop they want. Build one of each type early on, just in case.
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Re: Strange Moods == Just sitting in their rooms?
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2011, 03:04:04 pm »
Was teh first leatherworks outside his burrow? 
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