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Ebergar

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strange mood problem
« on: September 04, 2011, 01:07:43 pm »
My dwarf entered Secretive Mood and one of his demands was "a quarry"
I'v looked at wiki whats it, ok Stone.
First requirement was - Skeleton, so i'v slaughtered an animal for bones, and thats ok, he picked them up.
Second (and the most troublesome one) is A Quarry, I have alot of stones in my fortress (many types) but he did not take any of them. Iv checked his preferences out - "He likes magnetite / copper / tiger iron...", probably he wants stone that he likes. Obviously it is magnetite.... I have lots of it in stock and he doesn't want them. Help please :)

exact sequence is :
Skeleton ('t' shows that he have bones only so its first)
A Quarry
Cut Gems
Shining Bars of Metal
Stacked Cloth
« Last Edit: September 04, 2011, 01:14:13 pm by Ebergar »
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2011, 01:16:21 pm »
Are you sure he doesn't want multiple bones? Sometimes they do that.
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2011, 01:36:24 pm »
That was my first thought too. Butcher some more cats.
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2011, 03:59:28 pm »
Try stone blocks.
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2011, 04:06:03 pm »
I don't think that stones are limited to certain kinds when a dwarf gets a mood - he'll prefer certain kinds of stone, but not be limited to them.

Check pathing, burrowing, forbidding, see if any of those are issues.
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2011, 04:56:33 pm »
Also, make sure you have all 3 kinds of cloth - and more than 2 pieces of it.
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2011, 05:47:48 pm »
guys, that was it, i did not have enough types of bones :) now i dont have enough cloth but... i suspected that :P
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2011, 08:31:35 pm »
Quote from: acetech09 on September 04, 2011, 04:06:03 pm
I don't think that stones are limited to certain kinds when a dwarf gets a mood - he'll prefer certain kinds of stone, but not be limited to them.

Check pathing, burrowing, forbidding, see if any of those are issues.
They can in fact be limitted. It doesn't happen very frequently, but holy hell is it annoying when it does.
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2011, 01:51:33 am »
And . . . .what did the possessed dwarf make?

Gotta tell us after we helped.
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2011, 03:11:08 am »
Quote from: Justin In Oz on September 05, 2011, 01:51:33 am
And . . . .what did the possessed dwarf make?

Gotta tell us after we helped.
i think he is going to make a nice corpse in my fortress... I dont have a source of silk (fibers - yes, wool - yes) and i think he wants that...

anyway, losing is fun :D
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2011, 03:20:24 am »
Buy it from a caravan?
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #11 on: September 05, 2011, 03:48:20 am »
Quote from: Laurin on September 05, 2011, 03:20:24 am
Buy it from a caravan?
it left shortly before he entered mood
dwarven caravans only here... no elven nor human

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yep, died :( next time ill buy everything i dont have from caravan
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2011, 04:48:32 am »
I always buy everything that is remotely useable because you never no what your next moody dwarf is up to.
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2011, 08:05:08 am »
Quote from: Ebergar on September 05, 2011, 03:11:08 am
i think he is going to make a nice corpse in my fortress... I dont have a source of silk (fibers - yes, wool - yes) and i think he wants that...

anyway, losing is fun :D

Make sure all your workshops have doors that can be locked if this happens - the only thing that can be trashed then is the workshop, until he starves / dies of thirst.  Problem solved.  :-)
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Re: strange mood problem
« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2011, 10:15:13 am »
I just had a weaver get a strange mood and demand stuff that I knew I had (cloth, rough gems, wood, metal bars) and he was still just sitting there.

Then I noticed that he'd tasked the one piece of adamantine cloth I had accidently made.  So I made a second piece, he grabbed it, and then started construction.  So I expect something like a million db adamantine thong to be produced presently...

[Edit: I was close.  He made a turban.]
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