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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 | 2025-05-12 14:54 |
| 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. |
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So it's not a mistake? Is it meant to be like this? Where can I see how many items each work order produces? |
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I'm just a (long time) player, so this is not an official answer, but, yes it's not a mistake and yes it is meant to be this way. For some orders it's not a set amount, like for food, drink, and other jobs that take input in stacks, it depends on the size of the stack(s) that the dwarf doing the job happened to grab. Or with a general "make crafts" job, it's 1-3. May be the game could do better at communicating this, but for the vast majority of jobs it's a 1:1 ratio. But this is a complex game that's has never been the sort to explain every detail, thus the massive wiki. (And there's more than a few 1:1 jobs where the size of the input doesn't match the size of the output, like the metal used to make a pick being 12 times the size of the pick, or 1 log making 1 die {though dice are all but useless in fortress mode}.) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2025-05-11 05:59 | relarmage | New Issue | |
| 2025-05-11 05:59 | relarmage | Tag Attached: 51.11 | |
| 2025-05-11 05:59 | relarmage | Tag Attached: order | |
| 2025-05-11 05:59 | relarmage | Tag Attached: Work Orders | |
| 2025-05-11 19:46 | Ziusudra | Note Added: 0042689 | |
| 2025-05-12 13:17 | relarmage | Note Added: 0042692 | |
| 2025-05-12 14:54 | Ziusudra | Note Added: 0042693 |
