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Train engraving

Training a dwarf in engraving from a starting level of e.g. dabbling/unskilled can be a bit annoying. Either you engrave areas in your mines far from your rooms, ending up with large areas of unused engravings. Or you send your unskilled engraver to engrave your tavern/temples/corridors/rooms/etc., ending up with lots of poor quality engravings that take time to remove.


This mod provides a potentially more convenient way to train one or more engraving dwarves.

Adds a simple reaction to the Stoneworker's workshop called Train engraving.

This reaction takes in 2 inorganic blocks and returns 1 block, providing a bit of engraving experience in the process.

I tried to kind of balance it in that it consumes 1 block in the reaction (imagine the engraver "using up" the block engraving it over and over again until it's dust), and it also takes a while to gain significant experience. In my test it took about a year and a half of constant training to get a dwarf from nothing to legendary.

• Build a new Stoneworker's workshop next to a stockpile with lots of blocks you don't mind losing
  
• Set the workshop to only take from this stockpile
  
• Set the specific dwarf to only do engraving
  
• Set the workshop to only allow the specific dwarf
  
• Set "train engraving" on repeat on this workshop

This mod must be loaded after the vanilla_entities (e.g. at the bottom) to add the reactions properly.

The training will also provide dwarf happiness, through "satisfied at work" and "satisfied improved engraving".

The reaction is only added to the "mountains" entity, meaning non-dorf civilizations may not have it available.

Apparently a reaction only provides experience if it has a product, which is why this reaction takes 2 blocks and produces 1