Apple

2025-10-29T09:46:41Z

Safeaspie: Dwarves can gather apple leaves. They're a separate object from apples and apple logs and can be made into dye. I noticed that the wiki doesn't mention them so have included them here.

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'''Apple''' is one of the many genera of [[tree]]s found above ground. Like most trees, apple [[wood]] is brown and produces brown products.

Apple trees bear apples that can be harvested by setting up a gathering [[zone]]. They can be eaten raw, cooked, or brewed into delicious [[alcohol|apple cider]], so you may consider exploiting them, rather than chopping them down to make [[charcoal]]. They also drop leaves, which can be collected in bags. Apple leaves are not cookable or brewable, though they can be made into [[dye]].

Logs and apples can be processed in a [[dyer's shop]] into [[dye|dyes]] - logs for rose, fruits and leaves for yellow.

Some [[Dwarf|dwarves]] [[Preferences|like]] apple trees for their ''fruit''.

[[File:Apfelbaum Winterrambour Hochstamm.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Admired for its ''fruit''.]]

{{Translation
| dwarven = bemòng
| elvish = fena
| goblin = slusna
| human = ramet
}}

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An apple once fell on the head of a [[scholar]], smashing his head into his body, an unrecognizable mass. Thus, the field of [[physics|dwarven physics]] was born.


Apples were invented by two [[human]]s named Steve. A well-documented but little understood phenomenon among humans is that a [[preference]] for [[window]]s strongly correlates with an intense dislike for apples, and vice versa. Curiously, humans who like [[penguin]]s tend to have a profound distaste for both.

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Millstone

2025-10-29T09:38:39Z

Safeaspie: As of January 2025, mill orders can specify plants. I've made a change to highlight this to players reading about milling orders. I don't yet know if the current millable plants are up to date. I think they are.

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* [[Blade weed]]
* [[Cave wheat]]
* [[Dimple cup]]
* [[Hide root]]
* [[Longland grass]]
* [[Quarry bush|Rock nut]]
* [[Sliver barb]]
* [[Sweet pod]]
* [[Whip vine]]
* An empty [[bag]]
* Cloth [[plant]]s
|production=
* [[Emerald dye]]
* [[Flour|Dwarven wheat flour]]
* [[Dimple dye]]
* [[Redroot dye]]
* [[Flour|Longland flour]]
* [[Quarry bush|Rock nut paste]]
* [[Sliver dye]]
* [[Dwarven sugar]]
* [[Whip vine flour]]
* [[Slurry]]
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A '''millstone''' is used to grind up certain [[plants]] to make [[sugar]], [[flour]], [[dye]], and [[slurry]]. Each [[milling]] job requires an empty [[bag]]. To operate, it needs to be connected to a mechanical [[power]] source such as a [[water wheel]] or [[windmill]] that supplies it with 10 power units. If none is available, a [[quern]] can be used instead, although millstones process plants much faster than querns. Before they can be placed as a building, you must first construct the millstone at a [[Stoneworker's workshop]].

If the power to the millstone is interrupted, any jobs must be requeued when power is returned. Therefore it is best to have uninterrupted power or at least the ability to run it for a long period of time.

A millstone can be placed in a hanging state, however, it will not actually be constructed as the builder needs to be able to stand on the square on which it is being built. Because of this, a millstone must be powered from above or from the side, not from below in order to be able to complete construction.

As of January 2025, millstones can specify plants for milling jobs. If you don't specify the target plant in the order or set a custom input stockpile, the miller will pick the closest random plant, with the usual, occasionally surprising, definition of closest. You also need something like a furniture stockpile that allows only bags, setting that to 'giving' to the millstone too. You still have to ensure somehow that the plants arrive at the right stockpile, for example by not allowing them on any other. Once you got this working repeat for every other plant you want to mill, either switching the 'give' orders every time or setting up a separate millstone for every plant/plant combination.

For general details read [[Stockpile#Give_to_a_stockpile.2Fworkshop|Giving to a Stockpile/Workshop]].

Alternatively, to preserve what little sanity a DF player has left, just forbid all millable plants you don't want milled (for example from the [[stocks]] menu) and (re-)claim them once the milling job is done.

[[File:De re metallica 1556-164.png| thumb| Silly humans using a mechanically powered millstone to grind stuff.]]

==An example setup==
As it is most efficient to set up workshops near their materials sources, usually by putting stockpiles next to them, it's common for millstones to be set up near farm plots. Putting a millstone just under the surface lets it be powered by a windmill on the surface, like so:

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Note that version 1 only works if the windmill is built first, and version 2 only works if the millstone is built first.

When building a vertically powered millstone, build the components from the bottom up. First place the millstone, then place the vertical axles above the millstone, then place the windmill last.

''For a basic overview of how the different machine parts work and work together, see [[machinery]].''

==Millable plants==
[[Sweet pod]]s can be milled into [[dwarven sugar]].

Other millable plants are listed below.

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|- style="background:#ddd"
!Plant
!Dye
!colspan=2|Color
!Crop type
!Value
|-
|[[Dimple cup]]
|Dimple Dye
|Midnight Blue
| bgcolor="#003366" |    
|Underground
|20[[Currency|☼]]
|-
|[[Blade weed]]
|Emerald Dye
|Emerald
| bgcolor="#50c878" |    
|Aboveground
|20[[Currency|☼]]
|-
|[[Hide root]]
|Redroot Dye
|Red
| bgcolor="#ff0000" |    
|Aboveground
|10[[Currency|☼]]
|-
|[[Sliver barb]]
|Sliver Dye
|Black
| bgcolor="#000000" |    
|Aboveground
|20[[Currency|☼]]
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|-
! Crop name
!
! Crop value
! Flour
! Flour value
{{flour table row|name=Cave wheat|tile=τ|colour=7:0|fname=Dwarven wheat flour}}
{{flour table row|name=Longland grass|tile=τ|colour=6:1|fname=Longland flour}}
{{flour table row|name=Whip vine|tile=§|colour=3:1|cprice=1|fprice=25}}
{{flour table row|name=Single-grain wheat|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Two-grain wheat|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Soft wheat|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Hard wheat|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Spelt|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Barley|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Buckwheat|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Oats|tile=τ|colour=2:0|fname=Oat flour}}
{{flour table row|name=Rye|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Sorghum|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Rice|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Maize|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Quinoa|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Kaniwa|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Pendant amaranth|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Blood amaranth|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Purple amaranth|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Pearl millet|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=White millet|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Finger millet|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Foxtail millet|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Fonio|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Teff|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
{{flour table row|name=Flax|tile=τ|colour=2:0}}
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==Bugs==
* Dwarves will occasionally combine two separate mill products in the same bag.{{bug|4371}}

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