Help making musical instruments

[Orange62]

I'm trying to get a good variety of instruments in my temple and tavern for the dwarves but I can't workout where to find a few of the instrument piece types like sound bodies. Any help?

[Helios]

Originally posted by Flowers96:

I'm trying to get a good variety of instruments in my temple and tavern for the dwarves but I can't workout where to find a few of the instrument piece types like sound bodies. Any help?

order them in the manager without a workshop involved at bottom ui.

[Birdey]

Or ask traders for them in tools for bits and pieces or in musical items , hope this helps!

[Terminal]

Musical instruments are procedurally generated for every civilization in each world. They have procedurally generated parts that can be made of different materials and may have to be made at specific workshops, and only once you have ALL the parts needed for a specific instrument can you then craft it.

Some instruments can require parts made specifically of glass, silk, bone, and metal, all at once.

Making instruments is possibly the most time and labor-intensive effort possible in Dwarf Fortress outside of Mega-Projects. It takes a lot of setup to make sure you have all the right workers and workshops, you need to double check to make sure you have all the necessary resources and that they are where they need to be, and then you need to make sure you are crafting all the right individual pieces in the correct numbers for different instruments which may or may not share the same parts, and then you finally need to make them.

If you are early into your fortress and just need something to put in your tavern: Consider buying instruments off of traders. Just as a warning, they are fairly expensive. Instruments sold to your fort can range from 1000-9000 Dorfbucks.

[Diarmuhnd]

I buy them all from traders.

[VoiD]

They are a pain in the butt to make, the wiki has a list of the possible materials necessary, but most of the time you don't get any choices, so you'll have to either order from the manager, and pray you have the required materials because it won't tell you if it's clay, glass, or w/e, or just go through everything manually in convoluted menus trying to find where the parts could possibly be.

It's better to just buy instruments.