40d:Strange mood - Revision history

Quietust at 15:13, 7 January 2026

2026-01-07T15:13:20Z

Quietust: /* Artifacts created */

2024-12-15T01:00:56Z

Artifacts created

Quietust: /* Macabre */

2024-09-01T17:27:36Z

Macabre

Quietust: /* Demands */

2024-09-01T17:11:11Z

Demands

Quietust: /* Failure */ checked every single unitst::killjob() call, and the only one which can possibly cancel a Mood is "Too Injured" due to lack of grasp (or the complete absence of a job, which can only happen during building destruction or loss of power); the insanity countdown also pauses as long as the dwarf is still moving

2023-11-27T23:34:08Z

Failure: checked every single unitst::killjob() call, and the only one which can possibly cancel a Mood is "Too Injured" due to lack of grasp (or the complete absence of a job, which can only happen during building destruction or loss of power); the insanity countdown also pauses as long as the dwarf is still moving

Quietust: /* Artifacts created */

2023-11-27T23:05:51Z

Artifacts created

Quietust: /* Artifacts created */ fill in this table from disassembly

2023-11-27T23:05:38Z

Artifacts created: fill in this table from disassembly

Quietust: merge these together

2023-11-27T14:08:07Z

merge these together

Quietust: /* Known quirk */

2023-11-27T14:06:00Z

Known quirk

Quietust: /* Skills and workshops */ Turns out the check is just whether any magma forge buildings "exist" (even if only in the planning state), and the choice is made immediately when the mood begins

2023-09-23T14:36:30Z

Skills and workshops: Turns out the check is just whether any magma forge buildings "exist" (even if only in the planning state), and the choice is made immediately when the mood begins

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 If you can't provide the desired workshop and all the required component materials within a couple of months, the dwarf will go [[insanity|insane]], which cancels the mood and the artifact.  As if that's not bad enough, any dwarf who goes insane will soon die, one way or another.
-A dwarf who is '''stark raving mad''' or '''melancholy''' is harmless to others (until they die and start a [[tantrum]] spiral), but a '''berserk''' dwarf will attack other dwarves and possibly pull levers at random.  You may want to station a squad nearby or assign a few war dogs to the dwarf on the chance that they will lash out.  If you build your workshops inside enclosed rooms with doors you can also lock the moody dwarf in the room until he or she starves.  In extreme cases, building a wall around an open workshop is the best precaution.
+A dwarf who is '''stark raving mad''' or '''melancholy''' is harmless to others (until they die and start a [[tantrum]] spiral), but a '''berserk''' dwarf will attack everybody in sight.  You may want to station a squad nearby or assign a few war dogs to the dwarf on the chance that they will lash out.  If you build your workshops inside enclosed rooms with doors you can also lock the moody dwarf in the room until he or she starves.  In extreme cases, building a wall around an open workshop is the best precaution.
 Most events that would ordinarily interrupt a dwarf will not deter a moody dwarf - for example, while passing out from pain will cancel most tasks, a moody dwarf will continue working as soon as he wakes up. Giving birth while in a strange mood does not interrupt the dwarf either; the new mother will ignore the baby until her mood is resolved and it will happily wander off in the meantime. The only events which ''can'' cancel a strange mood are the destruction of the workshop (including loss of power for a [[magma forge]]) or a severe injury which leaves the dwarf unable to use its hands.

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 | [[Bone carver]] (bone)
-| rowspan=3| Each equipment item with [BARRED] (leggings, greaves, gauntlet, helm), any shield, ''any helm'', instrument, toy, door, bed, chair, table, statue, coffer, bin, armor stand, weapon rack, cabinet, coffin, floodgate, hatch cover, grate, chain, cage, animal trap, figurine, amulet, scepter, crown, ring, earring, bracelet, any weapon, any trap component<sup>2</sup>
+| rowspan=3| Each equipment item with [BARRED] (leggings, greaves, gauntlet, helm), any shield, ''any helm'', instrument, toy, door, bed, chair, table, statue, chest, bin, armor stand, weapon rack, cabinet, coffin, floodgate, hatch cover, grate, chain, cage, animal trap, figurine, amulet, scepter, crown, ring, earring, bracelet, any weapon, any trap component<sup>2</sup>
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 | Macabre Mood (bone)
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 | [[Metalsmith]]
-| Door, bed, chair, table, statue, coffer, armor stand, weapon rack, cabinet, anvil, coffin, floodgate, hatch cover, grate, cage, barrel, bucket, animal trap, pipe section
+| Door, bed, chair, table, statue, chest, armor stand, weapon rack, cabinet, anvil, coffin, floodgate, hatch cover, grate, cage, barrel, bucket, animal trap, pipe section
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 | [[Weaponsmith]]

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 : ''Brooding darkly...''
-Macabre moods are similar to fell moods, but the dwarf will not murder a fellow dwarf.  A macabre dwarf may require bones, skulls, and chunks/remains; if you do not happen to have any, you will have to "make" some, or let the moody dwarf go insane.  Like fell moods, only unhappy dwarves can enter macabre moods.
+Macabre moods are similar to fell moods, but the dwarf will not murder a fellow dwarf.  A macabre dwarf will demand bones, skulls, or [[chunk]]s or vermin remains; if you do not happen to have any, you will have to "make" some, or let the moody dwarf go insane.  Like fell moods, only unhappy dwarves can enter macabre moods.
 == Demands ==

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 == Demands ==
-Once a workshop is claimed, the dwarf will begin collecting materials.  Each artifact will require between one and ten materials to complete - 1-3 "primary" components and up to 7 additional items based on your fortress's population (up to 1 per 20 dwarves eligible to enter a mood) and previous moods (up to 1 per artifact successfully produced). If the moody dwarf remains idle, then the necessary materials are not available.  [[Forbidden]] items must be reclaimed ({{K|d}} - {{K|b}} - {{K|c}}) before they may be used, but moody dwarves will ignore settings regarding [[economic stone]]. Press {{K|q}} and highlight the workshop to receive a series of clues about what the dwarf needs.  Hints that stay active for longer than 2 seconds mean that multiple pieces of that material will be required; each single demand will be displayed for 2 seconds, so if it says "gems... shining" for 6 seconds, 3 gems are demanded. Materials will always be fetched ''in order'', so if at least one item has already been retrieved (the items will show up with "TSK" ("task") next to them when the workshop is viewed with the {{K|t}} context menu), it will usually be possible to tell what item is required next.
+Once a workshop is claimed, the dwarf will begin collecting materials.  Each artifact will require between one and ten materials to complete - 1-3 "primary" components (with certain exceptions) and up to 7 additional items based on your fortress's population (up to 1 per 20 dwarves eligible to enter a mood) and previous moods (up to 1 per artifact successfully produced). If the moody dwarf remains idle, then the necessary materials are not available.  [[Forbidden]] items must be reclaimed ({{K|d}} - {{K|b}} - {{K|c}}) before they may be used, but moody dwarves will ignore settings regarding [[economic stone]]. Press {{K|q}} and highlight the workshop to receive a series of clues about what the dwarf needs.  Hints that stay active for longer than 2 seconds mean that multiple pieces of that material will be required; each single demand will be displayed for 2 seconds, so if it says "gems... shining" for 6 seconds, 3 gems are demanded. Materials will always be fetched ''in order'', so if at least one item has already been retrieved (the items will show up with "TSK" ("task") next to them when the workshop is viewed with the {{K|t}} context menu), it will usually be possible to tell what item is required next.
 You can use this to your advantage to get your dwarf to pick specific types of items, even if the moody dwarf has already started storing materials in their workshop: if a fey weaponsmith starts piling up copper bars, forbid those bars and he'll go pick another bar instead. If you forbid all metals except say steel (the stocks screen makes this fairly convenient), then he'll skip all those other metals and make his artifact weapon out of strong, valuable steel instead of whatever random inferior metal he might have picked otherwise.  Don't forbid any of his materials after your dwarf has begun building his artifact - he won't go back to collecting materials once started and will end up going insane.
 In somewhat rarer cases, a dwarf with a personality preference for a specific material, such as steel or silver [[bar]]s, will demand exactly that specific sub-type of material. For this reason, it is a good idea to keep as many types of material on hand as possible, including the three different kinds of glass. Forbidding materials won't let you get around this either: if they want a specific material subtype and you forbid it in favor of something else, they'll just sulk in their workshop until you unforbid the material or they are able to find it some other way - or they go [[insane]]. Asking a liaison for likely materials ''in advance'' is a good plan - "next year" is far too long for a moody dwarf to last.  Check your dwarves' [[preference]]s if you care.
-Once you have struck [[Adamantine]], all moods which use cloth or metal as a primary component will insist on using Adamantine cloth or wafers over all other materials; moody dwarves which happen to want metal for decorations will still choose bars based on distance or preference. Moods involving stone crafting or masonry will not prefer [[raw adamantine]] over other stones.
+If you have any unforbidden [[adamantine]] wafers or cloth in your stockpiles, moods which use cloth or metal as their primary component will insist on using them over all other materials; metal decorations will use any bars that are available, and cloth decorations will only use plant fiber or silk (whichever the dwarf demands). Moods involving stone crafting or masonry will not prefer [[raw adamantine]] over other stones.
 The various demands are translated here:

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 A dwarf who is '''stark raving mad''' or '''melancholy''' is harmless to others (until they die and start a [[tantrum]] spiral), but a '''berserk''' dwarf will attack other dwarves and possibly pull levers at random.  You may want to station a squad nearby or assign a few war dogs to the dwarf on the chance that they will lash out.  If you build your workshops inside enclosed rooms with doors you can also lock the moody dwarf in the room until he or she starves.  In extreme cases, building a wall around an open workshop is the best precaution.
-Most events that would ordinarily interrupt a dwarf will not deter a moody dwarf - for example, while passing out from pain will cancel most tasks, a moody dwarf will continue working as soon as he wakes up. Giving birth while in a strange mood does not interrupt the dwarf either; the new mother will ignore the baby until her mood is resolved and it will happily wander off in the meantime.
+Most events that would ordinarily interrupt a dwarf will not deter a moody dwarf - for example, while passing out from pain will cancel most tasks, a moody dwarf will continue working as soon as he wakes up. Giving birth while in a strange mood does not interrupt the dwarf either; the new mother will ignore the baby until her mood is resolved and it will happily wander off in the meantime. The only events which ''can'' cancel a strange mood are the destruction of the workshop (including loss of power for a [[magma forge]]) or a severe injury which leaves the dwarf unable to use its hands.
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 | [[Armorsmith]]
-| Each equipment item with [METAL] (plate mail, chain mail, greaves, leggings, gauntlet, high boot, low boot, ''shoe, high boot, sandal<sup>1</sup>'''), any shield
+| Each equipment item with [METAL] (plate mail, chain mail, greaves, leggings, gauntlet, high boot, low boot, ''shoe, high boot, sandal<sup>1</sup>''), any shield
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 | [[Bone carver]] (bone)

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 == Artifacts created ==
-The type of artifact created will depend on the dwarf's highest skill.  Masons and miners will always create some kind of stone furniture; bone Carvers, a bone or shell object; carpenters, a wood object, etc. Engravers and stone crafters will turn out a stone craft; metalworkers, metal crafts, weapons, or armor (depending on the type of metalworker); weavers, an article of clothing; tanners, a leather armor or object. If a dwarf has no moodable skills, they will take over a [[craftsdwarf's workshop]] and create a bone, stone or wood craft of some type. The precise type of craft created is usually somewhat random but if a dwarf has a personality preference for a particular thing, such as gauntlets or floodgates or crowns, and that thing is an available choice given the dwarf's profession, they will generally create an object of that type.
+The type of artifact created will depend on the skill selected for the mood and will be selected from the table below. If your dwarf does not have a preference for any possible items, the game will randomly select one from the list. Entries with "any" are treated as a single item which will randomly select a subtype which your civilization is capable of making, while "each" is treated as ''multiple'' entries, one for every possible subtype - this explains why bowyers and clothiers regularly produce foreign artifacts, while weaponsmiths do not.
-The first object grabbed by the dwarf will be the "primary" substance; all other materials will be used to decorate the artifact. If a dwarf grabs a piece of [[chalk]] and makes a statue, for instance, it will be a "chalk statue", but an artifact can potentially be composed of bone, cloth, gems, leather, metal, shell, stone, and wood all at once.  In some cases, a moody dwarf will produce an item which normally cannot be made from that material, leading to such odd constructions as an [[obsidian]] [[bed]], [[ruby]] [[floodgate]], or turtle [[shell]] [[cage]].
+{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="4" style="border:1px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;text-align:left;"
 Once created, most [[artifact]]s will be available for use just like a normal item of its type.  Artifact furniture is useful for high value [[noble]] rooms. [[Weapon]]s and [[armor]] will only be used by heroes and champions. Artifact weapons in [[Trap#Weapon Trap|weapon traps]] can also boost a room's value considerably, as in the case of artifact trap components.

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 * Macabre - "<dwarf> works, darkly brooding..."
 * Fell - "<dwarf> works with menacing fury!"
 == The mechanics of moods ==
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 When selecting the desired mood skill, only the level itself is checked, and if the highest level found is shared by multiple skills, then one will be selected randomly.
-If any [[magma forge]]s exist in your fortress, even if they haven't actually been ''constructed'' yet, all moody metalworkers will insist on using one instead of a coal-powered [[metalsmith's forge]]. Whether or not they want a magma forge is determined the instant the strange mood begins, so you should wait until the magma supply is completely full before even '''designating''' it for construction, since a magma forge losing power for even a moment will cause its strange mood to instantly fail.
+If any [[magma forge]]s exist in your fortress, even if they haven't actually been ''constructed'' yet, all moody metalworkers will insist on using one instead of a coal-powered [[metalsmith's forge]]. Whether or not they want a magma forge is determined the instant the strange mood begins, so you should wait until the magma supply is completely full before even '''designating''' it for construction, since a magma forge losing power for even a moment will cause its strange mood to instantly fail. Note that this does ''not'' apply to Glassmaker moods, which will always demand a coal-powered [[glass furnace]] regardless of how many [[magma glass furnace]]s you might have.
 Below is a list of all ''non''-moodable skills; if all of a dwarf's skills are found on this list and none from the table to the right, then they have no moodable skills and will construct their artifact at a [[Craftsdwarf's workshop]], producing an appropriate craft as described above:

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 ====Known quirk====
-On maps with magma, dwarves* who intend to create an artifact at a [[forge]] or [[glass furnace]] may only be willing to use a standard (non-magma) version, or only a magma version, and will find the other completely unacceptable.  If they are just standing around, then they won't use the type you have, and you will have to build the other type for them (though no [[fuel]] will be required if using a standard, non-magma version).
+On maps with magma, moody metalworkers will only be willing to use a [[magma forge]] ''once you build one'' and will completely ignore any [[metalsmith's forge]]s you happen to have. If you don't have '''any''' forges yet, then you will always need to build the non-magma version.
-:''(* This would include most all [[armorsmith]]s, [[blacksmith]]s, [[metalsmith]]s, [[weaponsmith]]s, and [[glassmaker]]s, and any whose mood is dictated by the relevant skills.)''
 == The mechanics of moods ==