Kvist

Kvist

Build Kvist's Nest and a friendly greydwarf named Kvist moves in. He keeps your base in order: he sorts what you drop in the nest into labelled chests, keeps your smelters, kilns and eitr refineries running, refuels your fires, farms your crops, looks after your animals, crafts, bakes and brews what you order, and fells and replants trees, mines stone and ore, and fishes.

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Getting started

1. Build a workbench, then Kvist's Nest from the hammer menu (Misc): 3 Ancient Seeds.
2. Kvist appears beside it. The nest is also an 8×7 chest.
3. Hover a chest and press L to give it a label. On a chest that already holds items, the first press labels it after its contents. Shift+L cycles backwards; Ctrl+L opens every label as a list, with a button that labels all the unlabelled chests near you from what they hold. Unlabelled chests are never touched.
4. Hover the nest and press K to choose Kvist's job: Sorting, Smelting, Upkeep, Farming, Animal Husbandry, Custom, Crafting, Forestry, Mining, Fishing, Landscaping, Follow (the buttons under the title, or the arrows beside it). The same window sets the priority of each task in that job, or switches tasks off. The K window also sets the nest's range (10 to 100 m, 50 by default) and its Show range button draws it on the ground.
5. Look at Kvist to see his job and what he's carrying; press E to pet him. Rename him with the Rename button in his nest's K window (handy with more than one). The K window's Look button changes how he looks: greydwarf, shaman, brute, greyling, or a frost greydwarf or frost shaman (Deep North). Every Kvist also shows on the map, named after his job. The nest shows today's tally, tells you if something is stopping him, and lists anything he couldn't reach today, so you can tidy it up.

With nothing to do in his job, Kvist tidies up and sorts (the K window's Idle button switches that off).

Kvist works within 50 m of his nest by default (set each nest's range in the K window). He runs, opens and closes doors on his way (only doors he opened), teleports beside anything he can't walk to (or home, if he gets trapped), and if there's nowhere to land beside it, uses it from where he stands. A cellar down a spiral stair, a hen in a raised cage or a light on a roof all get seen to, and he gets himself out if he falls into water. If he ever gets lost, the K window's Call home button brings him back. Want something from your chests? The K window's Gather button moves it into the nest at once, from the labelled chests and other nests in range; take it from there. He never touches chests a player has open. He is immune to fire and poison, has three times a greydwarf's health, and fights back (three times as hard) against anything that attacks him.

Jobs

Sorting

Put anything in the nest. Kvist carries up to 10 stacks per trip to a chest with the right label: the one already holding that item, unless another of that label is much nearer.

• Tidy up: loose items lying around within range are picked up and put away (priority 3).
• Re-sort chests: anything in the wrong labelled chest is moved to its own, and part-stacks of the same item are merged (priority 4).
• Auto chests: an empty chest labelled Auto is claimed for the first category that needs a home.
• Strict stacking (off by default, per nest in the K window): an item only goes in a chest that already holds it, or an empty chest of its label; never one holding other things.
• Sort me chests: everything in a chest labelled Sort me goes to its own chests, as from the nest. A drop chest by the door or the portal.
• No chest for something? It waits in the nest, and the nest tells you which label is missing. (Optional: turn on UseAreaFallback to let him use another chest in the same area instead.)
• Not in any category? It stays in the nest, and the nest names it; add it to categories.yaml to give it a chest.

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Smelting

Kvist runs every smelter, blast furnace, charcoal kiln and eitr refinery in range:

• Fuel first (Coal, Sap), then ore, scrap or Soft Tissue, taken from the nest or the matching chests.
• Coal is made on demand, and stockpiled: kilns get plain Wood when a furnace has ore to smelt and no coal is left, and otherwise until your chests hold the nest's coal stock (100 unless set in the K window), from wood above a reserve of 100. Fine Wood and Core Wood are never burned.
• Coal is fetched a stack at a time and kept in hand while a furnace has work.
• Bars, Eitr and charcoal are picked up and put away. He takes them to their chest once he carries 5.