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23a:Mandate
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A mandate is a Template:L's request that your Template:L produce a certain item or type of item. Fulfilling the mandate gives the noble a happy Template:L.
Mandates should not be confused with Template:Ls.
The Template:L and consort, Template:L, Template:L, Template:L, and Template:L make no mandates. Other nobles have varying numbers of maximum active mandates.
There are two types of mandates: production mandates and export bans.
Production Mandate
When a noble makes a production mandate, you will have about a year to fulfill it. These mandates for the production of goods, and can specify type or material, just like export bans. Note that a single Template:L is counted as 1 item although 3 are produced from one raw material, so if you are short of the mandated material producing mugs is favorable. Getting the required items from a Template:L will not fulfill a mandate. Making metal items includes smelting Template:L to create metal Template:Ls of that type. Due to the mechanics of smelting, one job can produce up to 2 metal bars (Template:L, Template:L, Template:L, and Template:L), these will count as 2 items.
If a production mandate expires without being fulfilled, the noble will get an unhappy Template:L, and one or more dwarves will be sentenced to punishment for the 'violation of production order' Template:L. The dwarf chosen tends to have a skill appropriate to the mandate, but random dwarves may be chosen as well. If the noble can't sentence any dwarves for punishment because of noble or legendary status, or the sentenced dwarves can't be punished because no officer is assigned, he will get another unhappy thought.
Export Bans
Export bans forbid the export of some goods, and can be for either goods of a certain type, like Template:L, or goods of a certain material, like Template:L items.
Violating an export ban by Template:L any of the item away is a Template:L for each of the haulers who brought a prohibited item (that was sold) to the Template:L - each dwarf will be incriminated the instant the item is carried off the map (whether by a pack animal or a wagon). Items that are subject to export bans are displayed in purple text in the trade window. Note that if an item is traded to a caravan and is subsequently placed under an export ban, dwarves will be punished even though the trade took place before the ban went into effect, so if the caravan hasn't already left, any banned goods should be immediately purchased back from the traders; if a good was offered, then nothing can be done (aside from exploiting various oddities in the trade system, or murdering the mandater). Oddly, trading banned items which were carried to the depot in Template:Ls (but not the bins themselves) does not result in any perceived crimes, perhaps because only the bin was brought to the depot, not the items inside it.
Mandates & preferences
Personal Template:Ls have a strong influence on what type of items and what type of Template:Ls a noble bans for export or wants to have produced via mandates. Nobles with a preference for a specific item will often either ban that item or mandate its production; nobles with a preference for a specific material will, likewise, either ban the export of items made from that material, or mandate similar production.
Nobles with extraordinary preferences or preferences for items or materials that are too hard to produce (particularly rare Template:Ls) will be a problem for your fortress. If unavoidable, such nobles may be destined for an Template:L - for the good of the fortress as a whole.
Viewing Mandates
Mandates are announced at the bottom of the screen, but if you miss the message, you can see if a noble is mandating anything on the Template:L. If the uppercase bracketed word '[MANDATE]' next to a noble's name is grey, he is making no mandates. If brown, he is making a production mandate, and you have a lot of time to complete it. If yellow, you have a couple seasons before the mandate expires. If red, the mandate will expire very soon. If white, then it is an export ban.