Can't find cut gems after trading

[insertprofilename]

Hi guys, I have a dwarf in a fey mood that needs cut gems. The caravan is currently at my fort and has cut gems that I can trade for but after I make the trade my stocks still read as 0 cut gems and I cant find anyone with the gems nor will my dwarf in the fey mood go searching for those gems.

I have cheaper tigers eye gems in my fort that I can cut and she will use those but I want her to use the expensive diamond that I just traded for, which I cant even find anywhere in my fort.

[Sophtopus]

The trading process needs to finish first before you can get that bin back. You have to wait for the caravan finish packing up and leave.

[AlP]

The gems are probably in your Trade Depot (assuming you actually pressed the trade button and got them). You can click on it and see what you have there in the bottom part of the screen.

If your dwarf wanted your new diamond, he would have taken it from the depot himself. He probably needs something else (like a rough gem).

[Strurbury]

Originally posted by AlP:

The gems are probably in your Trade Depot (assuming you actually pressed the trade button and got them). You can click on it and see what you have there in the bottom part of the screen.

If your dwarf wanted your new diamond, he would have taken it from the depot himself. He probably needs something else (like a rough gem).

Use the auto-mine feature under advanced mining to designate a bunch of the layers you wont be building on.

Dig a stair case downwards for 50+ z levels (Maybe not your main stairs, in case it needs to be walled off quickly) Cut a 1 or 2 wide chamber around a 3x3 stairwell. Enough to find a vein or two. Then auto-mine out ten or twenty z levels until you've got gems, flux, and coal to satisfy all of your future needs. Just keep reselecting the mined out area when finished to mine out any more revealed veins of ore, gems, or coal.

[insertprofilename]

Originally posted by Sophtopus:

The trading process needs to finish first before you can get that bin back. You have to wait for the caravan finish packing up and leave.

Okay so I did this and it worked. I see the diamond in my fort now but it still doesnt show up in my stocks and the dwarf in the fey mood still wont go grab that gem.

[insertprofilename]

I figured it out. The gems I traded for are large gems, which is different then cut gems and is sorted into finished goods.