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[Jelle]

Yes in the case of cloth they can be specific, wich is a huge pain if you ask me. As far as I can tell the material doesn't matter for any other goods he might need. Guess silk, cloth and wool are considered different goods altogether.
It's always a plus if you can supply the moody dwarf with the most valuable materials ofcourse, so the artifact will be worth your while.

Also I believe your artifact is a large gem, wich differs from normal gems wich you can use for decoration. I think that thing will go in either the finished good stockpile or furniture stockpile, but I'm not sure.

[jc6036]

I think large gems are bugged. They are supposed to go in the finished goods stockpile. Press t to check inside of the workshop

[ImBocaire]

Yeah, gem crafts and large gems currently don't get put anywhere. They just sit in the workshop and there's no stockpile that can take them. This includes artifact gems (perfect gems and gem crafts), although artifact gem furniture/weapons/armor/whatever gets taken to the appropriate stockpile.

Re: materials, pretty much the only time material type matters is if they are a moody metalsmith, and even then not all the time. They might ask for a specific base metal. Any other time, they will pick what they like if it's available but will go for another item of the same type if it's not available. Also, wood blocks cannot be substituted for rock blocks, though metal blocks can. And yes, plant cloth, animal cloth, and silk cloth count as three different material types; it's a good idea to keep a few of each kind on hand, because starting a cloth industry takes longer than it does for your moody dwarf to go insane, and spider silk might not even be available. Caravans are your friend; dwarven caravans will bring all three types of cloth (pig tail for plant cloth, spider silk cloth, and wool).

If you want to be able to use the useless artifacts to increase room value, look up the Display Case Mod.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Odds are it is still in the jewelry shop, artifact gems, like large gems seem to be unsortable via stockpiles in the current version.  Check the shop with (t) it should still be there.  I had so many artifact gems in one fort I ended up deconstructing the shop and bulding up a lovely statue garden around the immobile super-gems.

[Oliolli]

With the metalsmithing materials, do dwarves share any preferances for adamantine? After finding it none of my metal artifacts have had anything else for base material.

[Sutremaine]

Dwarves are hard-wired to love adamantine, so if there's any around and they don't like something else better they'll have it. Dwarves with a preference for adamantine can also demand it specifically, which doesn't happen with other metals.

trial and error seems like too frustrating a path to take in solving what those mysterious messages mean. Unless there's really logic in them always.

There is.

[Lagslayer]

I got an artifact large green glass gem and it got put into the finished goods stockpile. Not sure why if everyone else is having trouble with it.

[jc6036]

Maybe because yours is made of glass.

[Rurik]

There is.

Thanks! Of course it's so.

Another question: I'm trying to armor my military dwarves. I went m -> e -> U -> and chose metal armor as uniform template for all with shift+enter. However it reverts back to leather armor (and I got a message "Dwarf cancels pickup equipment: Equipment mismatch"). What's wrong? I have copper mail shirts, but no leather armor.

[jc6036]

You may have to go into the equipment screen and unequip any leather armor that you see.