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[melomel]

First mood; clothier with the fifth wave of immigrants.

He's claimed a workshop; the material the workshop's built out of isn't forbidden; he's collected 18 (!?) pieces of silk cloth, but there is more available; he's not assigned to a burrow but I believe there was a military alert on when he mooded; he's demanding rock.

There are scads of stone about, but no rock salt (which he likes).  Thoughts?  =\

[ETA] I am not sure which of these measures did the trick, but here is what I did:  Deleted all the burrows.  Made cloth and stone stockpiles next to the claimed workshop.  Made a new burrow, encompassing the workshop and new stockpiles.  Assigned moody dwarf to burrow, and when he STILL wouldn't start constructing, I put the whole stupid fort on military alert in that burrow and dumped and reclaimed the stone/silk.  He got crackin', using three pieces of cloth and a hunk of rock.

[Sarda]

Assign to burrow. Put rock in burrow.

[EveryZig]

He might want rock blocks rather than just boulders.

[Sarda]

That's true too, iirc "rock bars" are just stone blocks.

[melomel]

Tried making a burrow, and I have scads of blocks lying around.

I've never had a dorf get picky until after the fort's fifth mood or so, but Urist McArteest seems to be holding out for the stupid salt.  Of which, of course, I have none.  :<

[krenshala]

He also might want metal bars ... IIRC in one of the mood types they demand rock bars but actually want metal bars.  Luckily moody dorfs don't really care what type of metal (or stone) they get, but may have a preferred choice if they can get it.

[DrKillPatient]

That's true too, iirc "rock bars" are just stone blocks.

Rock bars are actually metal bars, that's a typographical error apparently.

What's he saying exactly? As far as I know, moody dwarves don't attempt to use only one type of stone.

[melomel]

Screaming "I must have silk cloth!" and "I must have rock!"; generic fey mood.

And the hangup has to be the rock; he hasn't snaffled every piece of silk in the fort.  Unless he wants GCS silk or something...

ETA and there is a wide variety of unforbidden metals to pick from, too  :|

[612DwarfAvenue]

Nah, Dwarves don't specifically need a certain material (type of wood, rock, metal, etc.), though they will take their favored material if it's available, otherwise they'll just take whatever.

[krenshala]

Has he gathered any rock yet (Use "t" to check what is assigned for a TSK in his workshop)?

When he is demanding items for his project, it asks once for each item he wants.  If he wanted three rocks and one peice of silk, it would just show "screams for rock" three times as long as it shows "screams for silk cloth".

Do you have metal bars available?

[melomel]

Workshop is:  the obsidian it's made of, eighteen pieces of tasked silk, two pieces untasked silk.  He hasn't picked up a single piece of stone, and he's asking for silk only slightly longer than he's asking for stone.

Enabled his clothesmaking skill for the hell of it.

And yep, there's a good variety of metal.

[krenshala]

You said he is screaming, so it sounds like a Fey Mood.  What specifically is he asking for, "rock", "rock bars" or "rock blocks"? 

[melomel]

Just "I must have rock!"

Or he was.  Never did bother picking any up and now he's gone insane.  At least he's not berserk/wasn't important.  I think he's wandered off to go play with a GSC...  maybe I'll get some silk out of this. 

Thanks for the suggestions...  I guess we'll never know.

[xeivous]

Just "I must have rock!"

Or he was.  Never did bother picking any up and now he's gone insane.  At least he's not berserk/wasn't important.  I think he's wandered off to go play with a GSC...  maybe I'll get some silk out of this. 

Thanks for the suggestions...  I guess we'll never know.

Let us know how horribly he dies.

[Fredd]

Rock bars are either coke, or charcoal