The mod is a bit of a cheat, but it really helps out when there is a shortage of resources.

@Kaktus021
That's a Dwarf Fortress quirk. Since the active site of the building is off center, the building reticle is also off center. Since this is a raw mod I can't really fix it. Might be able to do it with DFHack, but I wouldn't want to add that additional burden.

When I go to place the quarry it shifts one space down and right from where it shows it placing in build mode.

@Topples thank you, I came right with smelting it. I was just not having dorfs doing their jobs because I ran out of booze and they were sulking. Thanks for the reply.

@CelticAngel

You need to make a smelter and have coke(coal) to fuel it, just like you would other metals. Note that most of the time iron and silver will come in ore-bearing rocks that won't read silver or iron (hematite, etc)

Though all that is basic info, so maybe something else is going wrong?

I love this mod and appreciate all your work on it. Just one question: I can't seem to figure out how to smelt the ore mined from the quarries? Specifically silver and iron. What am I missing?

I've updated this to make coal mining a clear option as well as clay mining. I also changed the way the mod works with which civilizations can use it. At the moment, standard civs, lizardmen and halflings can use them. I can now add modded civ entities to the usage list, so let me know if you guys want me to give quarries to any other civs.

@Forekast
Ah, i guess I forgot to change the name. I'll get to that.

@Psyentific
Flux should be explicitly there. It looks like coal is under the wrong name.

@machotacoman256
No. The mod is meant to allow access to most common and uncommon materials that are required for some fortress actions. I just messed up the naming of the reaction and apparently it's labeled as clay.

Seems to be mislabeled as "mine clay", but the files indicate that it should generate bituminous coal & lignite

[REACTION:MINE_QUARRY_COAL]
[NAME:mine clay]
...etc

OK, I'm not sure if it was my load order, but I remove one of my mods and the quarry is popping up now. Although I noticed that coal is not popping up to be mined. I look through the files for the mod and see that it is there, but it is not popping up to me minable. How do I enable it?

@loony liberator I am currently on vacation and can't check my computer. But I know it is not under the workshop page. I'm not running many mods at all, but I will try to modify the load order to see if I can get it to pop-up.

Update on my previous post, my bad load order was causing workshops to not show up in my game, I've corrected my load order regarding the Agriculture mods and have fixed that issue.

@mistavipa It will be immediately under the workshops menu, the very same as Carpenter and Stoneworkshop. I've found and confirmed that the Advanced Agriculture Compatibility Patches mod causes many modded workshops to disappear from the workshop menu for my maps. Just listing this just incase this is relevant to your situation aswell.

Where is the quarry at in game. I cant seem to find it.

Can you mine for Flux Stone and Coal/Lignite?

Looking around the files, it looks like there's lines for mining coal. Was this excluded to prevent coke from being too available? And could there be a separate task for mining flux so it's not mixed with other common rocks?

If it doesn't work, you need to change the mode order. Move this mode to bottom.

From what I can tell, it uses a pick as a reagent, so it should be in a stockpile.
An advice to Topples is to make a pick a part of the quarry build, so people do not get confused and it doesn't take an extra haul job to get it started.

After all there's a pick in the sprite :).
Also the art is fantastic.

When trying to set the order to mine, it gets interrupted saying "Needs pick". I have many picks. Does it mean it needs an unclaimed pick?

@Alll-Mer
Message me on discord and show / tell me about the race you want graphics for. My username is .topples

@Topples
Just portraits for a personal race mod of mine, I'm not skilled enough yet at pixel art so I can't really do it.

@Alll-Mer
Maybe. Depends on how complex what you want is.

Topples are you willing to do commission work?

Thanks mate!

Hey everyone,

There was a glitch that caused actions on the quarry building to lag and might have been due to a corrupted graphics file. That issues is fixed and there is no longer any lag with quarries.

@Sir Thomas More
The quarry requires a wheelbarrow, a minecart, and an enormous screw to construct. All three can be made from wood.

What does the 'any tool' mean? A tool is required to build the quarry, but I have tried with a pick, an axe and even a mortar. What am I doing wrong? There is nothing in work orders that give me the possibility to craft simply 'a tool'.

@Miniman6565 So that's an easy edit, if you go into the mod folder and navigate to the text file that patches the human and dwarves. You can just copy paste the mountain entity in it and then replace mountain in [ENTITY:MOUNTAIN] with whatever civ you want. example would be "EVIL" for the goblins.

I love your MOD,thanks`

Is there any way to modify this to work for other civs? No worries if not. Just curious

Got them working together just by putting this below Dark Ages in the mod load order, which is the opposite of how I would assume it would have worked, but ya know. Just updating for readers that may have similar issues. Great mod, thanks topples.

That was easy. First and most obvious culprit. For any readers, it is not compatible with dark ages. I'll probably poke around in the files and see if I can merge them into a compatibility patch/one working mod but I am extremely incompetent so will see.

Mod conflicts can cause it not to show up in under workshops, as it works fine by itself but conflicts with something in my massive stupid modlist. I'll probably try to diagnose exactly what at some point. Imagine its dark ages V or something that changes cobalt.

Is there any copy and pasting I could do offhand to whip up a compatibiity patch? If not its cool. Definitely a me problem.

Love the mods. Lizardmen have a permanent spot in my playthroughs.

now play ontheground

Ah this is great, can finally give a dedicated miner something to do when they aren't digging new rooms

Ah sorry, I just didn't see it. The mod works great

@VanBuren30L
It should be under workshops, yes. Do you not see it? Mind you, this mod only adds it on dwarf and human civs. https://files.catbox.moe/9je7bm.png

I have absolutely no idea how to build a quarry, is it not under workshops?

I very much like that it's not a 100% chance to obtain the resources, makes it feel a lot less like a cheat and more organic

@Alll-Mer
Ye

so put it on repeat and hope to find stuff?

Thanks for this :)