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In Dwarf Fortress, dwarves sometimes break arms, legs, and other bones and need to be put in a cast. For this, they will need Plaster Dust, which is interchangeably referred to in-game as Plaster Powder and Plaster. Here’s how to make and supply hospitals with that powder.
How to make plaster in Dwarf Fortress
To make plaster in Dwarf Fortress, you will need a source of powder. It can be gypsum stone, alabaster, selenite or satin spar. Then you will need to build and use a Oven use the make drywall dust task. To use the Furnace, the dwarves will need the oven operation enabled skill.
To make drywall powder, you’ll also need an empty bag, which can be made of leather, cloth, or silk. The plaster bags are subsequently stored in hospital zones, with the default quantity of five bags of plaster. Drywall bags do not have a specific storage option and will be stored in your furniture stock unless stored in hospitals.
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Common mistakes and errors when making plaster in Dwarf Fortress
There are two common known issues if you are having trouble making drywall dust. The first is not having enough bags. The bags will sometimes appear empty but contain something like a single seed, or something else, which prevents them from filling. Or they may be banned or inaccessible to the Furnace. To fix this, make more bags.
Alternatively, sometimes there is a bug where, no matter what, the task of making plaster dust will not complete in the kiln. In this case, you will have to use the Work orders menu to have your manager set up multiple jobs to fix this error.
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