LIBRARY GUIDE - Tutorial Paper Industry Guide DWARF FORTRESS

[@AnonEyeMouse]

One additional point. Military dwarves with injuries that make them bad soldiers (wounded veterans) make excellent scholars. They likely have a wealth of knowledge on military matters as well as other peace time skills. Rather than sending your crutch dwarf into battle to die because he has no limbs on one side, let him retire to a scholarly roll and pass on his knowledge to the younguns to then practice.

[@Ic0nGaming]

This one is so smart, thanks a lot for sharing!

[@willydawiller]

i usually move them to a separate squad and let them sit in the barracks for all eternity, hopefully partaking in training

[@ruinmaniac1411]

The levers are there to power the lightbulbs above their heads, it's obvious dwarven logic

[@smolbirb4]

Thanks for making all these tutorials on more obscure things in an already complex game

[@Ic0nGaming]

My Pleasure!

[@TheJackOfFools]

Stuff like this is fun and frustrating in equal measure. On the one hand it *really* is simulating a complex supply and manufacturing process, which is super on brand for the game. On the other...complex supply and manufacturing processes are a lot of work. Its like making steel equipment. You know you should do it, but the process takes so many steps that its very easy to just...not do it. Then you die because some bronze monstrosity isn't affected by the copper weapons that have worked so well on goblins.

[@MegaOgrady]

Just automate it... My steel and paper industry run on it's own. Whenever I need smth, they go do it automatically. If it's in enough stockpile, they wait around and go do other things.

[@darby2314]

Perfect timing for me. I was just starting to build a library and prepping to learn how this works.

[@MrTerrakotta]

Ok, now let's make that legendary gelder into scholar and I'm set. Just waiting to see what he will write.

[@Henryfordisright]

Thanks for reminding me to build a Guildhall hahaha

[@leokolln]

Right on time when I'm about to make a dwarf monastery!

[@patrick1532]

I mean if I was tasked with flipping an unconnected lever back and forth endlessly I'd probably start being a little more interested in other things as well hahaha

[@keithgreen1263]

a lot to take in there, thanks for the tutorial.

[@Ic0nGaming]

Yeah it took me really long to condense it like that. I even burned out twice on the topic before finally getting everything together :D

[@Mel-mu8ox]

physical exercise also exercises the mind.... Works with us to... do ANY physical repetitive task... (washing up maybe) you will start thinking about other things

[@Mel-mu8ox]

so using scrolls you dont get to pick and choose which books get printed? but you can with a codex? will the dwarfs get upset if I throw their bad quires into lava?

[@FourEyedBird]

does the bug still exist where in the process of binding a quire it loses both its value and the information written inside it? used to be that it was binding quires was actively detrimental since the resulting codex is turned into a 1-page manual worth only the value of the binding materials

[@Doler12]

The value was fixed in 47.05,but still 1-page manual. I am still in 47.05 so dont know if the 1-page bug is fixed or not. Try it out?

[@zacharycole3054]

Literally looked up if you had one on this hahaha

[@Ic0nGaming]

Good thing that I released it earlier then :D

[@alainpage6949]

Guess I'll need a PHD to play this f*cking game!

[@LukeBunyip]

Play for long enough, and you'll get an honorary one from the University of Urist.

[@danielmantell8751]

It's not that bad. It takes a bit to get the hang of some of the required stuff, but the majority of things you can do you don't need to do. The fun thing about the game though is you can spend hundreds of hours and still find new things to do.

[@mnbgt101]

Honestly as a human scholar I understand exactly what's going on with that lever

[@BraveLobster4567]

My dude, put cabinets in your dwarves' bedrooms and they will stop leaving their clothes all over the place.

[@AlgaeNymph]

Scholars would require their own video? Well what're you waiting for? : )

[@Ic0nGaming]

On thing at a time ^^

[@Primal478]

Question: What does the yellow dots mean in the work orders tab at 4:32?

[@Ic0nGaming]

It means that this work order is currently not on any workshop cause it's conditions aren't met. The green check mark means that it is on some workshop and being currently made.

[@Primal478]

Ah, thx🙂

[@ClanHawkins]

Great content thanks!

[@rzu1474]

Oh... Oh no... *The thinking lever*

[@Ic0nGaming]

Dwarven scholars theorized the harmony between levers and scholars might hint towards the dwarven brain structure. There has to be a link between the cogwheels and thinking efficiency, Urist!

[@NephPlays]

Very useful and to the point, thank you sir.

[@Inoka01]

lmaooo I always just raided sites for books

[@gamemasterdave]

This video was helpful. Thank you.

[@Ailakftw]

Thank you for the video, very helpful

[@no_mnom]

The lever trick is how I make my dwarves pray when they won't

[@Ic0nGaming]

Yeah, I learned about this only yesterday!

[@talknight2]

How about getting their asses out of the temple when they WON'T stop praying?

[@MalakianM2S]

I still can't keep my library going because I can't make a stockpile for book binders and scroll rollers, tried a tool stockpile with no bins as per forums advice and that didn't work, so I can't make scrolls nor books. I really hope someone that know how to solve my problem read this comment.

[@Ic0nGaming]

You need to put a chest into the area which is declared as library. They will put all necessary items for writing in there automatically, no stockpiles needed. It's the same as with taverns and hospitals. =)

[@MalakianM2S]

@@Ic0nGaming I did put several chests, the quires were moved there but nothing else, now that I realize I didn't check the order list and maybe the hauling of the rollers were down there buried under a pile of stone hauling. Thanks for the info, I'll try that again and pay attention to the hauling "procedures". EDIT: I did try again keeping the rollers in the workshop and this time I could make the scrolls, I don't understand why the first attempt the game gave me a error message telling me that the rollers needed to be in a proper stockpile and this time it didn't, but nevertheless I crafted my first 5 scrolls today.

[@Mel-mu8ox]

On the wiki it says that so long as they are in a library zone, dwarfs will talk to each other, even if they are walled away ?

[@Ic0nGaming]

I've seen a talk about that on the Reddit stating that a wall will stop them from being able to do conversation.

[@Mel-mu8ox]

@@Ic0nGaming Ah :( thats a shame,

[@john8579]

Does binding books still destroy the written content of the quire?

[@DerHirnschmelzer]

Thanks :D

[@flpshmn]

how is dwarves learning necromancy a problem, I see that as an absolute win! 😂

[@Ic0nGaming]

Wait until a piece of sheared, reanimated Yak Wool strangles half your fortress and repeat your words :P

[@AeciusthePhilosopher]

@@Ic0nGaming that sounds like a temporary issue if you have a necromancer on hand to reanimate the strangled citizens.

[@CarloTheCurious]

Nice tutorials, but the audio (both game sound & voice) seems really low on all of them. Might just be me, of course!

[@Ic0nGaming]

Audio upgrade incoming this month ;)

[@haileene703]

Please take this as a constructive criticism, and not a dumb trash comment. I usually like your guides as they are concise and clear. Now please note that I already know the process of making books and I have a perfectly running library out of quires and codices. So I come here not to say that I don't understand how to do it. I'm fine doing it. (just have to figure out scrolls now for the fun of it) And that's where the problem stands. If I had no clues how to make any of those components, the way you presented this very video would really confuse me. The sole fact that you are simply explaining, hovering your mouse over the shops is way too vague for one of the most complex things to craft in this game (maybe behind instruments I guess ?) How one would know how to make paper out of plants ? You never ever stated any of the most 2 common plants to make slurry. (Rope reed & Pig Tail). You just stated the steps (mash into slurry & press into paper) But you never ever (unlike most of all your other videos) actually show the process in game from step 1 to end product. For that I talk solely about producing the writing material process. That's where this tutorial falls a bit short compared to all your other very good tutorials. The book writing itself would probably be more a problem to show results. Sorry for being "that guy" but always being nice just to be nice never helps the creator to get better. 💖

[@Ic0nGaming]

Nah, you are nailing the point I was unhappy with myself. I struggled with either: Making 2 videos about Library and Paper Making. Or cram both topics together and in the end go too hasty over some points. Thanks for the positivity behind your criticism, I'll make something out of it ;)

[@haileene703]

@@JB-pu8ik Honnestly, if someone is interested in reading, he would find it without the wiki links. The whole concept of a video is watching / listening, and witnessing it done.

[@haileene703]

@@Ic0nGaming You are welcome. Happy you take it like this, those days it's hard to know if it will be taken as a positive input or not. Keep pumping out those (9.5 times out of 10 😍) great guides

[@rafael__rafa]

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[@unbannablebob395]

Wow, it's almost too simple

[@RasCricketSmallAxe]

Nice video but Dwarf Fortress is a broken mess after 60 Dwarves.

[@AndrewFullerton]

If you're having frame rate issues you might want to consider lowering your fortress claim's size when you're embarking. If you're just talking about the fortress falling apart, all I'm gonna say is get a good manager and learn to love work orders

[@RasCricketSmallAxe]

@@AndrewFullerton Its not the framerate. I mean the sheer management of that many Dwarves is kinda broken in my opinion. the amount of menu diving to read what the heck just happened, locating Dwarves, etc = For me, the fun came to a screeching halt at about 60 dorfs. To each, of course, their own, I just think the gameplay itself is ill-affected after a certain point, the number of dorfs specifically.

[@RasCricketSmallAxe]

@@JB-pu8ik I gotta get more in that mindset

[@adogg-2006]

​@@RasCricketSmallAxethe justice system and the unsortable, unsearchable "dead" list are the worst offenders IMHO

[@RasCricketSmallAxe]

The game is kinda 'menu-diving hell > actual gameplay' in many ways@@adogg-2006