Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress/Workshops

Various workshops you can build using the Build command. They are available under Workshops.


 * Note: Watch out for Clutter! If you see a (CLT) by the shop name, it is working at a reduced rate.

Loom

 * Weave cloth from plant fibers
 * Weave silk cloth from spider webs
 * Gather spider webs

Metalsmith's Forge
How many bars will it use up: crafts, chains, flasks, goblets, toys, instruments, coins and ammo take 1 (bar). Everything else but weapons and armor take 3. The weapons and armor take the material size number in their "raw/objects" entry and divide it by 3, using at least 1 bar.

Masons workshop
Masons workshop requires a piece of stone and a dwarf with a masonry profession to build.

A dwarf with masonry profession can work a unit of stone into following designs:

blocks - required to build wells and advanced workshops.

table - a table and an adjancted chair will be used by dwarves to eat meals comfortably.

throne - makes dwarves happy if they own one.

statue - decoration, makes dwarves happy.

floodgate - can be opened and closed to direct flow of water if connected to a lever.

bed - makes dwarves if they own one.

Mechanic's workshop
Makes Mechanisms out of stone.

Farmer's Workshop

 * Process Plants
 * Process Plants -> Bag
 * Process Plants -> Barrel

Ashery
Wood -> Ash -> Lye -> Potash (fertilizer)

The last two occur at the Ashery, first at Wood Furnace.

Bowyer
Make crossbows here. You will also want to make Crossbow bolts in the Craftsdwarf's Workshop or Metalsmith's Forge

Wood Furnace
Burns wood, makes Charcoal or Ash

Wood -> Ash -> Lye -> Potash The last two occur at the Ashery, first at Wood Furnace.

Smelter
Makes bars from ore. You'll need a source of fuel, most likely charcoal from the wood furnace.


 * hematite = iron
 * malachite = copper
 * galena = silver (well, it should have lots of lead I think, but that's not in)
 * sphalerite = zinc
 * cassiterite = tin

You can turn all of these into bars except zinc.

Also:


 * tin ore + copper ore -> bronze
 * zinc ore + copper ore -> brass

Bronze makes stronger weapons/armor than copper. Brass is useful as usually only to please specific people. Perhaps it can be used for instruments later or something. Silver is more valuable, and easier to obtain and use.

There's also a steel making process, using limestone, coal and iron ore to make pig iron, and then again to make steel.