How do I collect rocks etc that are laying about in tunnels I've dug in Dwarf Fortress?
Best Answer
Turn them into rock blocks (since a lot of blocks will go into a single bin in a storage room and that's much neater). Clearing every stone takes a long time, but you can clear certain areas using burrows:
Designating a burrow over the area
you want to clear.
Select a lowly mason who will be your exclusive stone block maker and
assign him to the burrow.
Build a mason's workshop inside the burrow.
Use the profiles screen on the workshop to restrict the dwarves
that can work there to your chosen
mason. (You'll need to have a
manager for this.)
Set make rock blocks to repeat!
Your lowly mason will dutifully go about their business selecting only stone from the burrow and will automatically take breaks to sleep and eat, so this is a pretty low-maintenance method.
Currently if you can't get shells from your map, they are doomed. An alternative is to mod another creature to drop shells and butcher it (dogs work well).
In the latest versions, only dorfs with a "shell fetish" will demand shells for their artifacts.
Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress is a single player, tile based, real time strategy, city building, and adventure game by Bay 12 Games developer Tarn Adams. The game is playable on PC, under Windows (XP+), Mac (OSX), and Linux (Most distros, contains a text only mode). Most game content is procedurally generated and the game is highly moddable. One unique feature is the continuity of the world you play in. You can play many games of fortress and/or adventure mode in the same world, each building up it's history.
Best Answer
Turn them into rock blocks (since a lot of blocks will go into a single bin in a storage room and that's much neater). Clearing every stone takes a long time, but you can clear certain areas using burrows:
Your lowly mason will dutifully go about their business selecting only stone from the burrow and will automatically take breaks to sleep and eat, so this is a pretty low-maintenance method.