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===Glassmaking vs. Masonry===
 
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There is considerable overlap between items produced from [[stone]] at [[mason]]s' [[workshops]], and items produced from glass at glass furnaces. [[Masonry]] is easier to get running (and you are more likely to encounter mason [[immigrants]] than glassmaker immigrants), and will clear excess stone from your fortress. Glass produces items with higher base [[value]], and using a [[magma glass furnace]] essentially makes objects from nothing.
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There is considerable overlap between items produced from [[stone]] at [[mason]]s' [[workshops]], and items produced from glass at glass furnaces. [[Masonry]] is easier to get running and will clear excess stone from your fortress. Glass produces items with higher base [[value]] (unless you make your masons use [[flux]] or [[obsidian]]), and using a [[magma glass furnace]] essentially makes objects from nothing.
  
 
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Revision as of 23:18, 17 August 2009

Skill: Glassmaker
Association  
Profession Craftsdwarf
Job Title Glassmaker
Labor Glassmaking
Tasks
Workshop

The glassmaking skill is required to make any of the green glass, clear glass or crystal glass goods at a glass furnace.

Note that the "collect sand" order at the glass furnace requires the "item hauling" labor, not glassmaking.

Sand Gathering

Your glassmakers will be limited by the speed at which item haulers can supply them with sand, and by the total amount of bags you have available for this purpose. If you are slowly working toward getting glass production up and running (waiting for a magma glass furnace or for a dwarf with glassmaking skill to immigrate, for example), you may wish to get a head start on sand gathering in the meanwhile. Setting up two or three glass furnaces and a sand bag stockpile for the sole purpose of queueing up multiple "gather sand/R" tasks may be an excellent use of your time and hauling labor. With a few dozen sand-filled bags waiting, your glassmaker will have plenty of raw material ready when it is time to begin glass construction.

Glassmaking vs. Masonry

There is considerable overlap between items produced from stone at masons' workshops, and items produced from glass at glass furnaces. Masonry is easier to get running and will clear excess stone from your fortress. Glass produces items with higher base value (unless you make your masons use flux or obsidian), and using a magma glass furnace essentially makes objects from nothing.

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