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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0013169 | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Mode -- Interface, Standing Orders | public | 2025-05-11 05:59 | 2025-05-11 19:46 |
| Reporter | relarmage | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | Computer | OS | Windows | OS Version | Windows 11 Home |
| Product Version | 51.11 | ||||
| Summary | 0013169: Work orders produce more items than chosen | ||||
| Description | I recently ordered my dwarves to make 5 wooden cups. When the notification the order was completed came, I had like three times the amount I ordered, around 15-20 cups. I've seen other people had the same problem when using work orders: https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/zvcw3b/work_orders_producing_too_many_items/ May I get some feedback on what is done about this? | ||||
| Tags | 51.11, order, Work Orders | ||||
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Orders don't specify how many of an item to make but how many of that job to queue up. So you ordered them to do 5 "make cups" jobs. Goblets/mugs/cups are always produced at a 3:1 ratio, in other words a single job always creates 3, the idea being that since they're small each input material can make more than just one. Meal orders always make as many as the total of the input item stack sizes, so an easy meal made from a stack of 5 plump helmets and 5 meat, will produce 10 meals. Similarly, drinks always make 5 times the input stack size, so brewing a stack of 5 plump helmets will produce 25 wine. So, if you order 5 brew drinks, that's 5 brew drinks jobs, that could each use a stack of 5 plants, that will each produce 5× that many drinks, resulting in you getting 125 drinks. |
