40d Talk:Stocks

The captured creatures page indicates that I can disarm captured goblins by locating narrow gear that's being worn on the stocks page and marking it for dumping. How do I determine what's being worn, though? None of the color coding or bracketing symbols seem to indicate this. Bryan Derksen 01:05, 18 May 2008 (EDT)

A second on this question. Is this possible? To see what's currently in use by the dwarves? --Zombiejustice 18:48, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

Use the "go to object" command or whatever that one that goes to the object. If it goes to a cage with a goblin in it, you know you've got the right equipment. However, if you process your equipment quickly, all narrow stuff should apply. --Savok 08:45, 16 June 2008 (EDT)

Hm. I was hoping there was an easier way. My furnace operators can melt down (narrow iron chain mail) only so fast. I guess I'll stick to throwing them in the execution chamber as practice for my marksdwarves. --Zombiejustice 09:07, 16 June 2008 (EDT)

I tried to use the stocks menu to control the type of stone my mason uses, by forbidding everything except a flux. Somehow that seems to lock up the mason into No Job, even though there's plenty of that type of stone lying all over the place and what's more, nothing I do can ever get that mason to do anything ever again except eat, sleep, and drink. Drawf irons 23:10, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Did you remember to set your flux stone to be non-economic? They won't use if it they think it's still reserved for steel production. --Bilkinson 09:04, 8 September 2008 (EDT)

More likely the workshop is built out of one of the forbidden stonetypes - this forbids the workshop itself! unforbid it manually. --Höhlenschreck 21:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

More info about the two columns of numbers, please.

The article says "listed first as the total number available, and then as the total number in use." I don't think this is right. My barrels are listed as 193 in white and 3 in red. I'm definitely using more than 3 barrels. In this case I think it means I have 3 barrels *unused*.

Could someone please clarify this?

Turnerjer 10:23, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

The numbers and colours do indeed mean quite a few different things - the first, grey, numver is basically items normally available to you - the second, in red, is the sum of

• items not owned by you (caravan, enemies?)
• items used in buildings etc.
• items forbidden
• more?

in the detailed view they split in

• red
• cyan
• violet
• ...

--Koltom 15:03, 8 July 2009 (UTC)