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Dagmar Dec 10, 2022 @ 8:50pm
Drone pipe for wind instruments?
I'm finally consenting to building some temples, but the musical instruments are giving me a problem. I can't seem to find which workstation one uses to make the wind instrument's drone pipe, and the keyboard's case. In theory a lot of different workstations (which I have) should be able to make the drone pipe and the case, but even telling the manager to issue the work order seems to stall indefinitely.

Were these pieces somehow missed? Should I really try and buy some from the elves, or just sieze them.
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derpenstein Dec 10, 2022 @ 9:06pm 
I never make my own instruments because of how confusing it is. maybe its easier to do it through work orders or something. I just buy every instrument I get from caravans.
An Actual Bear Dec 10, 2022 @ 9:22pm 
Check the clay and glass furnaces. May find parts in stations you wouldn't think to look. Manager might be stalling because you don't have sand or clay to make those parts. Can't really know though unless I see your entire stockpile and what randomly generated instruments your world decided to create.
Other Dec 10, 2022 @ 11:13pm 
Another thing that can cause this is that you can only make instruments native to your civ. If you have human visitors/immigrants, they might have arrived with songs that need a human instrument, which you won't be able to build (although you can probably buy an assembled one from the human caravan, in this case).
ian.whitchurch Dec 10, 2022 @ 11:19pm 
It depends on the wind instrument - they are procedurally generated.

Check in the workshop itself, not in the manager, to see what pieces they can make.

Note instruments can be very finicky about the components - for example, a bow for a stringed instrument might need spider silk, as opposed to any old thread.
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Date Posted: Dec 10, 2022 @ 8:50pm
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