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[h45hc0d3]

Pre-mood: High Master Weaponsmith, Adequate Leatherworker, smattering of social and military skills at dabbling and novice. Dwarf is unhappy (recent immigrant, sleeping in immigration housing near large waterfall/status garden construction project; had "slept uneasily due to noise" listed three times and "accosted by terrible vermin" listed twice in thoughts when mood struck).

Dwarf enters macabre mood.

Dwarf is now a legendary bone carver.

Bone carving was not a skill he had prior to the mood. I was under the impression that it would automatically select his "highest moodable skill", ie, weaponsmithing, if a mood struck. I'm running .25, in case anyone's curious.

The least important part of this post, but I'm still a little bummed out about it: he used all 62 elephant bones I had remaining in the axe he made, and a couple dozen mule bones as well.

[Oliolli]

He entered a macabre mood, which means he took all sorts of remains (elephant bones) and carved something out of them. Sounds like Bone Carving to me.

[Mitchewawa]

I think he was making a !!SCIENTIFIC!! statement; probably previously unknown. Chuck it on the wiki.

[Garath]

its a mood that only strikes depressed dwarfs. they tend to make stuff from bone or leather, sometimes killing a nearby friend for extra material. that does make them legendary, for sure

[Satarus]

Macabre mood is a fell mood that doesn't include murder.  I wonder if personality or grudges will determine which they will enter.

[acetech09]

As I know, macabre and fell moods only occur in unhappy dwarves, and will always go for a bone carving/leatherworking skill - sucks it happened to be your high master weaponsmith.

[h45hc0d3]

Anyways, the real point of my post was that a mood doesn't always take the highest moodable skill, like it says it will on the wiki - in this case, it took a skill he didn't even have.

[Aachen]

Yeah, fell/macabre is a more special-case when compared to the other types of moods.

[acetech09]

Yes. That information you posted was already on the wiki - that's what I was alluding to in my previous post.

[hudders]

Anyways, the real point of my post was that a mood doesn't always take the highest moodable skill, like it says it will on the wiki - in this case, it took a skill he didn't even have.

I'm not sure that's entirely true. After all, he did make an axe.

[Zaerosz]

That shouldn't be happening. Your dwarves shouldn't be making artifacts with skills they don't have unless that skill is wood/stone/bonecrafting, much less only leveling up to Novice.

[PhantomXD]

He used all 62 elephant bones I had remaining in the axe he made, and a couple dozen mule bones as well.

Sounds like a Planepacked unless im mistaken.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Planepacked

May I ask whats its value and dose it have an excessive list of details?

[Garath]

i'm using vanilla, and a crafter used 100+ bones from a titan, no excessive details

the object menaces with spikes of bone.... it shoukd scare the hell out of everyone seeing it considering the number of bones and where they came from

[Oliolli]

They'll always take the entire stack of bones.

[PhantomXD]

They'll always take the entire stack of bones.

Well now I know.that would explain a few things in my fort, thanks  .