Industry #

Most of the information contained on the linked pages is my own summary of what is available on the wiki unless otherwise notated. I divided up content mostly based on the wiki industry page, however that page is mostly concerned with specifying industries that produce products to make money but I wanted to have a short guide to encompass each thing you may need in your fort.

Primary Industry #

These industries can operate (mostly) without reliance on another industry (e.g. you can embark with what amount of supplies you need or there are no supplies required)

• Wood Industry: growing wood, cutting wood
• Stone Industry: obtaining stone, obtaining ore
• Plant Industry: herbalism (plant gathering) and plot farming
• Fishing Industry: fishing, fish cleaning, fish dissection
• Animal Husbandry: raising domestic animals, trading exotic pets, produce eggs

Secondary Industry #

• Alcohol Industry: brewing plants, fruits and honey into alcohol
• Armor Industry: creating armor from wood, bone, leather or metal
• Bookbinding Industry: creating quires and scrolls, binding paper into books, rolling paper into scrolls
• Beekeeping Industry: housing bees in hives, producing royal jelly and honeycomb
• Butchery Industry: butchering animal corpses, butchering tame or partially trained animals
• Ceramic Industry: gathering clay, turning clay into pottery, glazing pottery
• Cheese Industry: milk animals, turn the milk into cheese
• Clothing Industry: producing clothing, rope and bags; decorating crafts
• Extract Industry: process vermin and plants into extracts, turn honeycomb into honey and wax, turn plants into flour, sugar, syrup or dye
• Finished Goods Industry: producing crafts or totems at a craftsdwarf workshop or metalsmith forge (wood, bone, stone and metal crafting)
• Food Industry: cooking meat, fish, eggs, cheese, flour, sugar, syrup, alcohol, and plants into meals
• Fuel Industry: creating coal coke and charcoal at a smelter or wood furnace respectively
• Furniture Industry: creating furniture from wood, stone or metal using carpentry, masonry or blacksmithing
• Glass Industry: gathering sand, creating raw glass, creating glass furniture/crafts
• Gem Industry: cutting gems, encrusting things with gems, gem crafting
• Hunting Industry: hunting wild animals on the map
• Leatherworking Industry: tanning raw hide into leather, creating leather clothing, bags, and goods
• Metal Industry: smelting metal bars using ore and fuel, or unwanted metal items and fuel
• Musical Instrument Industry: creating musical instruments
• Paper Industry: producing parchment from rawhide or paper sheets from cloth plants,
• Soap Industry: producing soap from tallow or oil and lye
• Textile Industry: sheering wooly animals, looming hair/fur/wool/silk webs into thread, weaving thread into cloth, dying thread and/or cloth
• Weapon Industry: creating weapons from wood, stone, glass or metal

Tertiary Industry #

• Administration: creating work orders, keeping inventory of stocks, meeting with foreign diplomats
• Guild Hall: providing guild halls, spreading new knowledge to dwarves and visitors
• Healthcare: stocking a hospital with all the things it needs
• Justice: administering justice
• Military: defending the fort, raiding enemies, demanding tribute
• Scholar Work: writing new books, copying books
• Tavern/Inn: running a tavern/inn, building renown and providing positive mood
• Temple: running a temple
• Trade Industry: build wealth and renown through trading with others