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Poindexterity

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can i embark with bins?
« on: July 22, 2011, 06:52:38 pm »

ive tried everything i can think of, so either there is no way, or i need a hand.
anyone have the answer?
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Re: can i embark with bins?
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2011, 06:55:04 pm »

Bring wood, construct carpenter's workshop, make them?  Why do you need bins when you embark?
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Re: can i embark with bins?
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2011, 08:42:15 pm »

Bring wood, construct carpenter's workshop, make them?  Why do you need bins when you embark?
perhaps to get around a lack of wood?
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Re: can i embark with bins?
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2011, 08:43:50 pm »

Bring wood, construct carpenter's workshop, make them?  Why do you need bins when you embark?
perhaps to get around a lack of wood?
So bring logs. (Plus the wagon deconstructs into three logs.)

Seriously, what do you have at embark that you need binned so badly?
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Re: can i embark with bins?
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2011, 08:47:13 pm »

Bring wood, construct carpenter's workshop, make them?  Why do you need bins when you embark?
perhaps to get around a lack of wood?
So bring logs. (Plus the wagon deconstructs into three logs.)

Seriously, what do you have at embark that you need binned so badly?
(pig tail socks) of course!
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Re: can i embark with bins?
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2011, 08:53:20 pm »

It is comforting to imagine that if one brought lot of them to the site at embark, one's dwarves won't run out into the path of any and all lethal hazard to retrieve the socks of friend and foe alike, but the Dwarven lust for socks knows no bounds.
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« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2011, 09:14:42 pm »

but the Dwarven lust for socks knows no bounds.

I'd be surpirsed if no one else already had this thought, yet still:

Could it be that our dwarves are notorious wankers?
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Re: can i embark with bins?
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2011, 09:15:36 pm »

Actually, socks are just the ludicrous tip of a clothes-hoarding iceberg.
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Re: can i embark with bins?
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2011, 09:29:14 pm »

but the Dwarven lust for socks knows no bounds.

I'd be surpirsed if no one else already had this thought, yet still:

Could it be that our dwarves are notorious wankers?
Doesn't explain the sock cravings of female dwarves. While females may choose to be notorious wankers, socks are not particularly helpful to them in this endeavor.
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Re: can i embark with bins?
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2011, 02:04:05 am »

there's always odds and ends cluttering up the place.
couple extra picks from that mining accident, some socks from dead folk, bars purchased from the trader before my metal industry is set up, thread from butchered animal hair, etc.

crap just starts gettin outta hand before i can start getting bins churned out.

plus, i HATE using wood for objects that can be made from anything else.
I'd rather have lead bins than wooden ones.
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Re: can i embark with bins?
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2011, 09:49:33 am »

there's always odds and ends cluttering up the place.
couple extra picks from that mining accident, some socks from dead folk, bars purchased from the trader before my metal industry is set up, thread from butchered animal hair, etc.

crap just starts gettin outta hand before i can start getting bins churned out.

plus, i HATE using wood for objects that can be made from anything else.
I'd rather have lead bins than wooden ones.

Just embark on a heavily forested area, plenty of wood, infact more than enough.
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