I Killed A Dwarf In A Strange Mood

[ParGellen]

One of my dwarves went into a "strange mood" and then just stood in the tavern doing nothing and seemed to get angrier and angrier (according to the little icon over her head).
I clicked literally everything clickable thing I could find related to her and her info and nothing showed me what she wanted and not even Google was any help. All I could find was vague unhelpful references to clicking things that didn't exist and people making fun of other people that didn't know what to do. Not cool.
I finally just had her killed out of frustration (mainly at the game being so stupidly obtuse and not at the dwarf herself).

So now that her brains and guts are splattered all across my tavern let me ask:
How the ever-loving f@#$ do you figure out what a dwarf in a strange mood actually wants from you because I've been liking the game up until this point but that dumb crap nearly made me uninstall it.

[Macawesome75]

Did you have all the possible workshops that a strange mood can use? It sounds like she didn't have her needed workshop

[ParGellen]

Originally posted by Macawesome75:

Did you have all the possible workshops that a strange mood can use? It sounds like she didn't have her needed workshop

Like?

[Macawesome75]

Originally posted by ParGellen:

Like?

The workshop demanded is based on the dwarves highest skill, and dwarves with none of these skills use a random one iirc
Off the top of my head, stonemasons workshop (For stoneworkers), Carpenters workshop (for woodworkers), Bowyers (for bowyers), Craftsdwarves workshop (For several jobs), metalsmith (for metalcrafting stuff), Jeweler's bench (for jewelers), mechanic's bench (for mechanics) and Clothiers (for clothesworkers)
I may have missed one, but thats what i can remember. Names might be off though

[rkjesseryu]

Originally posted by ParGellen:

Originally posted by Macawesome75:

Did you have all the possible workshops that a strange mood can use? It sounds like she didn't have her needed workshop

Like?

Like did you have workshops built. LIKE all of em. or have any locked away or removed.

the dwarf didn't have a workshop and went into a strange mood.
Try building all workshops. maybe have 2 of a few the important ones so you can have 1 for you master and 1 for you dude that's about to become master.

Remember. everytime you get a strange mood dwarf they will become legendary at whatever skill they use to make the artifact. (or they level up drastically pretty sure they level up i got like 7 master stone crafters)

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by AF. rkjesseryu:

Originally posted by ParGellen:

Like?

Remember. everytime you get a strange mood dwarf they will become legendary at whatever skill they use to make the artifact. (or they level up drastically pretty sure they level up i got like 7 master stone crafters)

Unless they're possessed.

Last I checked, Possession doesn't give any skill/knowledge gains as it's the possession entity doing the deed.

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by ParGellen:

One of my dwarves went into a "strange mood" and then just stood in the tavern doing nothing and seemed to get angrier and angrier (according to the little icon over her head).
I clicked literally everything clickable thing I could find related to her and her info and nothing showed me what she wanted and not even Google was any help. All I could find was vague unhelpful references to clicking things that didn't exist and people making fun of other people that didn't know what to do. Not cool.
I finally just had her killed out of frustration (mainly at the game being so stupidly obtuse and not at the dwarf herself).

So now that her brains and guts are splattered all across my tavern let me ask:
How the ever-loving f@#$ do you figure out what a dwarf in a strange mood actually wants from you because I've been liking the game up until this point but that dumb crap nearly made me uninstall it.

DFWiki is your friend.

Always

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood

[ParGellen]

Originally posted by Tikigod:

Originally posted by ParGellen:

One of my dwarves went into a "strange mood" and then just stood in the tavern doing nothing and seemed to get angrier and angrier (according to the little icon over her head).
I clicked literally everything clickable thing I could find related to her and her info and nothing showed me what she wanted and not even Google was any help. All I could find was vague unhelpful references to clicking things that didn't exist and people making fun of other people that didn't know what to do. Not cool.
I finally just had her killed out of frustration (mainly at the game being so stupidly obtuse and not at the dwarf herself).

So now that her brains and guts are splattered all across my tavern let me ask:
How the ever-loving f@#$ do you figure out what a dwarf in a strange mood actually wants from you because I've been liking the game up until this point but that dumb crap nearly made me uninstall it.

DFWiki is your friend.

Always

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood

That's the main one I went to. I read the whole thing. Where exactly does it tell me what to do or how to tell what the dwarf wants?

[Mechanos]

Originally posted by ParGellen:

One of my dwarves went into a "strange mood" and then just stood in the tavern doing nothing and seemed to get angrier and angrier (according to the little icon over her head).
I clicked literally everything clickable thing I could find related to her and her info and nothing showed me what she wanted and not even Google was any help. All I could find was vague unhelpful references to clicking things that didn't exist and people making fun of other people that didn't know what to do. Not cool.
I finally just had her killed out of frustration (mainly at the game being so stupidly obtuse and not at the dwarf herself).

So now that her brains and guts are splattered all across my tavern let me ask:
How the ever-loving f@#$ do you figure out what a dwarf in a strange mood actually wants from you because I've been liking the game up until this point but that dumb crap nearly made me uninstall it.

xD
The wiki woulda solved your problems. I actually read up on this just yesterday, since I'm pretty new. When they enter a strange mood, they get tunnel vision on wanting to make a special item, but don't tell you what. They give you occasional hints though. If they require a specific workshop or material, and you don't have it, they will just stand around and eventually die. I looked it up when I had a dwarf hanging out in a random room muttering to himself. But the moment I placed a crafts workshop, suddenly he ran for it, commandeered it, and made a legendary toy box.
*shrug*

[ParGellen]

I assume I didn't have the workshop she wanted or something. I've barely started this fort and haven't had time or manpower to build much of anything yet. Hell I don't even have enough of them to haul out the trash. The more I read the more I think bashing her brains in was the correct option.

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by ParGellen:

Originally posted by Tikigod:

DFWiki is your friend.

Always

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood

That's the main one I went to. I read the whole thing. Where exactly does it tell me what to do or how to tell what the dwarf wants?

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood#Skills_and_workshops

When read would have told you that in almost all cases, the workshop they need is tied to their highest skill, and what specific workshop is tied to that skill.


https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood#Demands

When read would have told you how to interpret the demands they speak once they claimed the workshop and didn't have all the materials they needed.

[whit]

Originally posted by ParGellen:

Originally posted by Tikigod:

DFWiki is your friend.

Always

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood

That's the main one I went to. I read the whole thing. Where exactly does it tell me what to do or how to tell what the dwarf wants?

"For the duration of the mood, the dwarf will claim a workshop related to the skill that the mood affects (not all skills are eligible), kick out any dwarf who was using it, and render it otherwise unusable until the mood has ended. If a moody dwarf does not claim a workshop , it is because the appropriate workshop does not exist. (See skills and workshops below to determine which workshop(s) might be required.) A moody dwarf will not be able to build a needed workshop; another dwarf with the appropriate labor designation must do so for them, if one is necessary. Furnaces are also counted as a workshop."

[ParGellen]

Originally posted by Tikigod:

Originally posted by ParGellen:

That's the main one I went to. I read the whole thing. Where exactly does it tell me what to do or how to tell what the dwarf wants?

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood#Skills_and_workshops

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Strange_mood#Demands

Yep. That's them. Unfortunately it's not very helpful. Basically just tells me to build everything way before I can actually do it. Killing her was the best option I see now.

[ParGellen]

Originally posted by whit:

Originally posted by ParGellen:

That's the main one I went to. I read the whole thing. Where exactly does it tell me what to do or how to tell what the dwarf wants?

"For the duration of the mood, the dwarf will claim a workshop related to the skill that the mood affects (not all skills are eligible), kick out any dwarf who was using it, and render it otherwise unusable until the mood has ended. If a moody dwarf does not claim a workshop , it is because the appropriate workshop does not exist. (See skills and workshops below to determine which workshop(s) might be required.) A moody dwarf will not be able to build a needed workshop; another dwarf with the appropriate labor designation must do so for them, if one is necessary. Furnaces are also counted as a workshop."

Yep. No way I could build everything at this point. I was just unlucky with her getting the mood way before I could actually do anything about it.

[Mechanos]

Originally posted by ParGellen:

I assume I didn't have the workshop she wanted or something. I've barely started this fort and haven't had time or manpower to build much of anything yet. Hell I don't even have enough of them to haul out the trash. The more I read the more I think bashing her brains in was the correct option.

Well, most workshops are super cheap. Wood or stone. If it's a dwarf you really didn't wanna lose, might be worth just plopping down some workshops anywhere you have space, even if just temporary, and see if you get lucky? Free legendary item and save their life? This is purely anecdotal, but in all my recent forts, the early game strange moods seemed to favor common workshops, like the carpenter or crafter. ....I even got a legendary water gate recently lol. Weird flex.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by ParGellen:

Originally posted by whit:

"For the duration of the mood, the dwarf will claim a workshop related to the skill that the mood affects (not all skills are eligible), kick out any dwarf who was using it, and render it otherwise unusable until the mood has ended. If a moody dwarf does not claim a workshop , it is because the appropriate workshop does not exist. (See skills and workshops below to determine which workshop(s) might be required.) A moody dwarf will not be able to build a needed workshop; another dwarf with the appropriate labor designation must do so for them, if one is necessary. Furnaces are also counted as a workshop."

Yep. No way I could build everything at this point. I was just unlucky with getting the mood way before I could actually do anything about it.

Well, it's only one piece of material per workshop, except for the metalsmith needing the anvil of course, so you can just randomly throw up all the workshops any old place just to see which they take over. You can always disassemble afterwards.

That, of course, still leads to making sure they have all the materials they need, but that is a story for another post!