true, but I think rock mechanisms are kinda silly sounding. besides, I've got tons of steel anyway, and i KNOW that i can make steel mechanisms without effort, thus I can guarantee they are magma safe. ... for when I actually start using magma
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I've got this stupid dwarf who's diagnosis is apparently 'will never walk again', yet my doctor doesnt seem to make any efforts in treating him - is he destined to sit around the hospital wasting space until he grows old?
Think so -
And I just found out last night sometime that you can store bars in bins.. that saevs a ton of space compared to the way i was doing it >.>
Can i store rocks in anything?
Yes on the rocks -- some consider it an exploit called quantum stacking
Designate a one square garbage zone near the items to dump or near where you want to use them (do not have more than 1 garbage zone at a time as the dwarves may not dump it in the closest one or the one you want)
then keys dbd and drag/select the items/rocks to dump (can use a mouse to select individual items) <esc> when done
Your dwarfs will now carry and magicaly dump hundreds of things in one square. (designating too many garbage items can bring your economy to a halt as garbage seems to have a high priority
The items are not gone only forbidden
You can later remove the garbage zone and reclaim all the items for use (I use K and select each item I want -- there is probably a drag/select reclaim procedure as well)
Other uses for garbage zones:
use them to drop items as many z levels as you want by channeling a vertical shaft and designating the hole at the top(and one adjacent square iirc) the garbage zone, dwarfs will then drop things down the shaft where they can be reclaimed for use say on a deep workshop level.
If you use a shaft over a magma pool then the items will be gone forever.
