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40d:Workshop
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Workshops are where materials are processed by dwarves into more valuable or useful items. Anything that is created, refined, cooked, altered, or decorated, or generally "produced" is processed at a workshop. There are many different types of workshops, for different purposes and different finished products. Just as they have specific products associated with them, they have specific Template:Ls that are required by dwarves who build them or work there, and dwarfs with more of the appropriate Template:L tend to produce higher Template:L objects*, and/or produce them faster.
- (* If the finished product has any quality modifiers - not all do. Processed Template:L is just cheese, a stone Template:L is just a stone block, and a tanned Template:L is just Template:L, etc.)
Almost all workshops measure 3 tiles square, 3x3, but a few are 5x5, or even a single tile.
Be Aware! - Most workshops have one or more inaccessible tiles - locations within them that block movement over that one tile. These are different with different workshops, are visible as dark green tiles when placing the workshop, and are also shown in the sidebar of every wiki article on any particular workshop. You cannot "spin" a workshop - its orientation is fixed, every time the same. Don't build a workshop to then realize that it blocks the only door in and out! (If you do, you can use q, x and give the order to tear it down, recover the building material, and try a different plan.)
A workshop's inaccessible tiles do not block fluids.
Building
Most workshops are quick and easy to build, requiring only a single piece of Template:L, Template:L, or other common materials (although there are a few exceptions).
Workshops must be built on clear ground, by a dwarf with an appropriate* Template:L designated, and use (usually one) building material, which can be stone or ore, wood, or Template:Ls of any kind. Some workshops also require additional items, such as Template:Ls or Template:Ls.
- (* The labor is listed once the workshop has been placed, and varies from workshop to workshop, but is usually related to what the workshop processes or produces. Use q to query the unbuilt shop and make sure at least one of your dwarves has that labor.)
To build a workshop, open the build menu and select workshop, then choose which workshop you would like to build and the materials you would like to use in its construction. Your cursor will now change into a floor plan of the workshop.
The menu will ask you to select them when you are placing the workshop, and you can choose specific items by hitting x. Some workshops (ones that deal with fire) require Template:L building materials.
Attention: dark green locations in the plan will be impassable in the completed workshop, while passable locations will be a bright green. Plans cannot be rotated, so it is important to ensure that the impassable squares do not block a door or otherwise cut off access to the workshop. The Template:L and Template:L block off a whole side of the workshop, and many block off one or more corner doors. Look at diagram in the main article on a specific workshop before walling your dwarfs into a dead-end!
Once the plan has been placed in a satisfactory location, you must have a Template:L with the appropriate Template:L enabled to build the workshop (view dwarf-preferences-labors). For instance, to build a a Template:L, you must have a dwarf with the "Template:L" labor enabled. Some workshops (such as the Template:L) must first be designed by a dwarf with the Template:L labor enabled. To see what labor is needed to build a particular workshop, press q and move the cursor over its floor plan.
When performing the actual construction, a dwarf must first clean the area of loose rock and other items lying on the ground by moving them to neighboring, non-diagonal squares. Items already claimed by other tasks (such as "Bring Item to Stockpile" cannot be moved and will cause the dwarf to suspend construction of the workshop. If this happens, you will need to wait until the interfering tasks are finished (for instance, rock has been cleared away to a stockpile), and then manually un-suspend construction with the q menu. The dwarf will also suspend the construction when he can't find a proper neighboring square to move the items to. This is usually caused by active construction sites on neighboring tiles.
Workshops can be quickly and easily be torn down (q, x) and all building material and items recovered.
Use
Once a workshop has been constructed, you will need to assign a queue of tasks at which the dwarves with that workshop's skill will henceforth toil. To edit the queue, hit q and move the cursor over the workshop. Jobs are completed in order from top to bottom; a job set to 'repeat' will be labeled R in the list, and will be be sent back to the bottom after it is done. This allows you to set a workshop to do a series of tasks repeatedly. The job labeled A, if any, is the currently active project. Any jobs which have been manually suspended will be labeled S.
Alternatively, the Template:L can assign jobs to workshops. This is a more efficient way of allocating jobs when the fortress becomes larger.
Most jobs require materials. Any dwarf that starts a job in a workshop will automatically retrieve the necessary materials from the appropriate source (even if they don't have the appropriate Template:L job set). Dwarves work more efficiently if the materials for their workshop are Template:Ld nearby.
Beware of workshop Template:L! Dwarves will not automatically haul things away from workshops once the job is completed. Note that there is no way to notice a cluttered workshop without looking specifically inside the workshop (t or q) until a cloud of Template:L erupts from your Template:L.
Profiles
Once you have assigned a manager, each workshop will have a profile menu (q-P) which allows you to specify which dwarves are allowed to use the workshop (either by name or by a range of Template:Ls). Template:Ls have identical profiles, allowing you to choose a specific dwarf to respond to an order to "Pull this Lever", which can be handy for a variety of purposes.
Variations
The workshops used in the game include the following:
| Workshops | |
|---|---|
| Furnaces | |
| Related articles | |
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L.
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L and Template:L.
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L or wooden Template:Ls.
- Template:L: Used to turn some corpses and Template:L into Template:L and usable materials.
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L from Template:L. Also some Template:L components.
- Template:L: Used to make numerous items from Template:L.
- Template:L: Used to make a Template:L from a plethora of materials for trading purposes. Also useful to make Template:L cheaply from bone and wood.
- Template:L: Used to Template:L Template:L or Template:L.
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L, Template:L, Template:L, and Template:L.
- Template:L: Used to process raw Template:L and make them edible.
- Template:L: Used to cut and encrust with Template:L.
- Template:L: Used to cook Template:L to decrease needed storage space, and expand the types of edible food.
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L into Template:L, Template:L and other items, like Template:Ls.
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L from Template:L.
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L from Template:L.
- Template:L: Used only to make Template:Ls from Template:L.
- Template:L: Used to make a plethora of items from trading items to Template:L and Template:L components from Template:L Template:Ls and Template:L.
- Template:L: Same as above, but with no Template:L consumption (except for the Template:L industry).
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L, Template:L, and Template:L.
- Template:L: Same as above, but with muscle power instead of water- or Template:L
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L arrows and Template:L and ballista parts.
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L drinks from Template:L.
- Template:L: Used to tan Template:Ls into Template:L.
Furnaces & Forges
Furnaces and forges are essentially workshops, except that they need some form of Template:L (Template:L or Template:L) or Template:L) to operate. Furnaces transform raw material (Template:L, Template:L or Template:L) to either a Template:L or Template:L (of Template:L, Template:L, Template:L, Template:L or Template:L). Forges turn metal bars into metal products, such as Template:L, Template:L, Template:L or Template:Ls. To build a furnace, open the build menu and select e. Forges are under the normal workshop menu.
Furnaces must be built from Template:L material, usually stone or stone blocks.
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L items from Template:L and Template:L.
- Template:L: Same as above, but without the Template:L consumption.*
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L from Template:L and Template:L.
- Template:L: Same as above, but without Template:L consumption.*
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L Template:Ls from Template:L, and smelt Template:L, which is Template:L.
- Template:L: Same as above, but without Template:L consumption.* (However, see Template:L Template:L & Template:L)
- Template:L: Used to make Template:L, which is Template:L, from Template:L
- (* Conventional fuels cannot be used at a magma version of a furnace or forge if it loses its magma source.)
Workshop Design
Since workshops are where much of your fortress's day to day work happens, it is important to plan them as carefully as you do your Template:L. Workshop designs have a couple key considerations:
- Workshops should be as close as possible to the raw materials needed to do their job. The only dwarf who hauls the needed materials into the workshop is the one who works in it. Placing a Template:L with the corresponding materials right next to the workshop will save the precious time of your craftsdwarf by leaving the tedious material transportation to less qualified laborers.
- There should be room to put in duplicate workshops, to accommodate spikes in demand for things like beds and barrels (carpentry) or stone furniture (masons). Workshop construction and deconstruction is cheap and quick in most cases, so do not hesitate do create and remove temporary workshops when the need arises.
- Certain (but not all) workshops should be lockable by forbidding the Template:Ls that lead into them. This is important for making sure that specific material can be forced to be used for specific production orders (Template:L Template:L for example, or Template:L furniture for your nobles), or that the desired items get decorated with exactly what you want (you don't want rubies on a -mudstone table- while you have a ☼Template:L statue☼ around). Also for locking away a dangerous dwarf in a failing Template:L so they won't hurt a useful worker. Not all workshops are subject to being claimed by Template:Ly dwarfs, and not all workshops need be concerned with specific items - a Template:L, for instance, in both cases.
- The design should be expandable. There will ALWAYS be another specialty workshop you'd find useful, whether it be a single-task, lockable Jeweler, a Legendary-only Carpenter's Workshop for beds, a floor of Dabbling to Proficient-only Masonry workshops for a Template:L, the list goes on. Never assume you'll never need another workshop. You'll always find SOMETHING.
- The design should have good traffic throughput. Workshop complexes are pretty high-traffic areas, so you'll need to keep this in mind.
A couple things that may seem like big deals, but really aren't:
- Being close to where the finished good will go. You will definitely need to think of where your chairs, tables, prepared meals, and the like will go after they're done being made, but an average fortress has a lot of spare labor and untrained peasants that are qualified for little more than hauling finished goods. Don't be afraid of putting the prepared food and booze larder 100 steps away from the kitchen and still; just turn off food hauling on your cooks and let the peasants handle it.
- Setting up resource stockpiles somewhat near where the resource is produced. Again, the peasants will handle this.
Specific design ideas are at Template:L.
Isolating workshops & furnaces
As touched on above, some workshops should be lockable, with Template:Ls (or Template:Les) that can be sealed to keep dwarfs in or out, as the need arises. This "need" could be a mood, the desire to work specific items, or simply forcing a specific dwarf to have no other option but to do the work you desire from them. Some other workshops are prone to causing Template:L, and steps should be taken to prevent that from spreading to your fortress in general. Still others never attract miasma-causing items, are never be claimed by a Template:Ly dwarf, and rarely invite specialized materials (or at least materials that can be easily stockpiled inside a lockable room.
The two ways to stop miasma are to build the workshop above-ground, or have all access via diagonal entries, with or without doors. Template:Lly designed entrances with doors can still let miasma waft out as a dwarf enters or leaves.
When designing a room to be locked, it's important that the doors do not isolate other, active workshops or parts of the fortress. Some players build mood-able workshops out in the open, but leave enough room to Template:L a Template:L around them should the need arise - there's certainly enough time.
- Only your own playstyle will determine where and how you want to build your workshops, and which to build with existing walls and which to stand free, but these are some rough guidelines:
- 1) Or the magma versions.
- 2) These are low risk for miasma, but not zero. Template:L from Template:Ling is the worst culprit, raw skins and unhauled Template:Ls are also common causes. Raw plants can certainly rot, but are slower to do so, so it would require that a project be started, abandoned (with the plant item left in the workshop), and then not cleaned up for the weeks it takes for plants or tallow to eventually rot. So it is uncommon but not impossible for these to produce miasma unless occasionally serviced by haulers.
- 3) There is no need for walls except to force the use of specific materials, or for personal preference.