Bones

[RicWalker]

I just started another map and now i have the same issue on both seeds: Bones.

Wood is no issue at all. But bones are. the bones required for cement for the advanced buildings is really hard to come by, especially on large maps, where the mob-spawns are far away from your colony. but even on smaller map, you can have bad RNG and you are surrounded by slimes and not by rats that seem to be the only early game source for bones albeit with a very small drop chance.
At least i have never encountered spiders on the upper levels of the mountain.

Whats your oppinion guys? am i the only one? How to fix?

[Zierski]

Dig straight down until you get to the rock type that has a chance of dropping bones. Best solution I have found, also the bone ash created seems to be different depending on which bone it is made with despite looking identical and having the same name. I ran into an issue where I had 20+ bone ash but was unable to create lime because I didn't have the "right" bone ash.

[RicWalker]

Originally posted by Zierski:

I ran into an issue where I had 20+ bone ash but was unable to create lime because I didn't have the "right" bone ash.

That sounds like a bug to me.

[DwarfComic]

Having same issues w/ bones. Thought this was an issue when it first released! Still not fixed? GesH!

[MadMan]

I have a related issue. I have more than 30 restless bones, but still can't create bone ash.

[OldKarli]

Originally posted by MadMan:

I have a related issue. I have more than 30 restless bones, but still can't create bone ash.

same here............have much bones but dont produce bone ashes
and i think they dont pick up much bones

[erandomone]

If the farm's not making bone ash, it could be a few things. You can manually select the TYPE of bone you're turning to ash (I ran into this when I had one low tier bone, but a bunch of restless bones. The work order was frozen because it was stuck waiting for 1 more low tier bone).

It could also be a priority issue. Raise the farm to a higher priority, or set your bone-storage to a high priority to make sure all the loot gets brought back to your dwarves

[Malakithe]

Why are bones always so hard to find? No matter how many times ive started new games bones are super rare

[OldKarli]

Originally posted by erandomone:

If the farm's not making bone ash, it could be a few things. You can manually select the TYPE of bone you're turning to ash (I ran into this when I had one low tier bone, but a bunch of restless bones. The work order was frozen because it was stuck waiting for 1 more low tier bone).

It could also be a priority issue. Raise the farm to a higher priority, or set your bone-storage to a high priority to make sure all the loot gets brought back to your dwarves

OMG...thx so much for hint with manually setting^^^ you saved my nerves.....it works now..............ahahah

[erandomone]

Glad it worked out for you :)

[Makrangoncias]

Originally posted by RicWalker:

Originally posted by Zierski:

I ran into an issue where I had 20+ bone ash but was unable to create lime because I didn't have the "right" bone ash.

That sounds like a bug to me.

That's the case with a lot of items... Same name same graphics different item... Very annoying bug.

I also consider having to select bone type at all a bug (why? most other crafting defaults to "random" materials if nothing is specifically selected). The other things are the mushroom oil and the leathers (textiles?!) that cannot be stacked or crafted normally.