View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0009409 | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Mode -- Items | public | 2015-12-22 02:45 | 2021-02-12 10:25 |
| Reporter | Peter Salt | Assigned To | Loci | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | acknowledged | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | PC | OS | GNU/Linux | OS Version | Ubuntu 15.04 |
| Product Version | 0.42.03 | ||||
| Summary | 0009409: Binding a quire into a codex destroys the material definition and value | ||||
| Description | I've noticed that if one is to bind a quire into a codex, the resulting item does not have any information about the quire material and decorations, only the description of the binding and written part. The quire materials and how are they decorated (I've empirically established that at least leather/cloth/silk/yarn images can be sown into quires) are also not counted towards the value of the item leading to a slightly absurd situation of a bound book having significantly smaller market value than the quire it's made of. After a quire is bound it is also marked as "Destroyed/transformed" in the Artifacts tab, and a new entry appears there for a bound codex. I think the intended way to calculate the value of the book was (value of quire + value of binding)*binding labor quality multiplier, maybe with thread value being also thrown somewhere in the mix, but something went wrong and only the binding counts. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | 1. Make quires 2. Have someone write something on a quire 3. Make a binding and bind the book, finding a moment when nobody's reading it | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
|
|
More likely the value of binding gets discarded. I made a book with gold covers (value 900) and the resulting book was only worth 320. |
|
|
I made a book out of quire worth 1200-something and green glass binding, it costed the same 320 as the result. Maybe 320 is just the fixed value of any codex and that's that? |
|
|
The codex's value seems to be determined entirely by the book binding item's BASE value, and the quality of the binding job, completely ignoring the binding item's quality, the quire and the thread. My green glass codexes are mostly worth 40 or 60 urists, as they were done by a novice book binder. This despite the green glass book bindings themselves having been masterwork or exceptional before the book binder got to them. |
|
|
I would recommend testing with a legendary bookbinder through [NATURAL_SKILL:WHATEVER], but... that's buggy too. I'll try that once that bug is fixed, unless this is fixed first. |
|
|
Not sure this is necessarily a bug. Traction benches work the same way with respect to their components. |
|
|
I would think just means the same bug applies to traction benches as well, as I can't imagine that's intended behavior either. |
|
|
What about small instruments (or other things build from several subitems; probably omitting buildings like siege engines or wells)? Is there value of final product counted similarly? |
|
|
Well should generate the value properly (items * labor), the same goes with encrusting. Also I have noticed that several codices bought from caravan (so generated, not made inside the fortress) could be very valuable and have extended descriptions. Probably, something is going wrong with mechanics of artifact. Have anyone tried to make codices from copies (they won't appear in L menu and they will be called *codice* not like "My Thoughts on Trauma") and check their value manually via bookcase? |
|
|
Has anyone checked this in more recent versions? I would but currently my only quires are extremely valuable and I don't want to ruin any of them. Hopefully this is an easy fix that Toady just hasn't gotten around to yet. |
|
|
There is no indication is has been changed (this bug report isn't marked as fixed, for instance, nor have release notes indicated that it might be). You can test it yourself by copying your save, perform the test in the copy, and then delete the copy to continue playing the original save. |
|
|
A jump from 42.03 to 44.x might be too extreme @PatrikLundell, attempting to repeat the circumstances by having a rudimentary library and committing the save to the latest version would go further. |
|
|
Confirmed in 44.09. I started a library with the intention of checking if this bug still existed. So I started off with very few materials and carefully tracked the progress of a quire all the way to the finished book. The values of all the materials in dwarfbucks leading up to the final product are shown here: unwritten on pig tail quire 40 written on quire 50 silver book binding 1200 pig tail thread 12 TOTAL 1262 silver bound codex 120 So the final book lost 1262-120 = 1142 of the sum of the component values. In the codex description it also specifically states that it is a 1-page essay, whereas I am pretty positive in the quire form, it never mentioned anything about the length of the essay, so it is possible that it is also losing content as well as material value. I have got the save folder here for reference: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13704 I also uploaded screenshots to prove the values above. Here is the album: https://imgur.com/a/sUceJbL Edit: Just saw another example, here we had a written-on parchment quire which had a value of 1210. This was bound into a codex which had a value of 210. So a massive drop in value. The codex also described it as 1-page long which was not the same content as the original quire. |
|
|
Still exists in 0.47.01. EDIT: Still exists in 0.47.04 as well. |
|
|
In 0.47.05, bound books do properly have a higher value, but they are still all single-page manuals. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-12-22 02:45 | Peter Salt | New Issue | |
| 2015-12-22 13:04 | Kumquat | Note Added: 0034128 | |
| 2015-12-22 14:47 | Peter Salt | Note Added: 0034130 | |
| 2016-01-03 11:02 | greycat | Note Added: 0034291 | |
| 2016-01-03 11:03 | greycat | Note Edited: 0034291 | |
| 2016-01-04 11:13 | jwoodward48df | Note Added: 0034312 | |
| 2016-01-04 13:17 | Bouchart | Note Added: 0034313 | |
| 2016-01-04 17:31 | nomad_delta | Note Added: 0034319 | |
| 2016-01-05 04:14 |
|
Note Added: 0034323 | |
| 2016-02-03 19:36 | perechen | Note Added: 0034600 | |
| 2017-09-12 16:43 | Loci | Relationship added | related to 0009268 |
| 2017-09-12 16:46 | Loci | Assigned To | => Loci |
| 2017-09-12 16:46 | Loci | Status | new => acknowledged |
| 2017-12-04 03:50 |
|
Relationship added | related to 0009506 |
| 2018-04-08 14:11 | Kvall | Note Added: 0038139 | |
| 2018-04-08 15:45 | PatrikLundell | Note Added: 0038140 | |
| 2018-04-09 03:37 | FantasticDorf | Note Added: 0038143 | |
| 2018-04-25 08:30 | sionlife | Note Added: 0038204 | |
| 2018-04-26 15:31 | sionlife | Note Edited: 0038204 | |
| 2020-02-10 13:11 | mrmagolor | Note Added: 0039998 | |
| 2020-11-23 17:54 | mrmagolor | Note Edited: 0039998 | |
| 2021-02-12 10:25 | mrmagolor | Note Added: 0040912 |
