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Stepladder
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Stepladders are tools used to harvest fruit from trees. If a fruit-bearing tree has been friendzoned zoned for plant gathering, a dwarf will automatically fetch and place a stepladder. They can be placed anywhere (don't need to lean on the trunk) and they allow the dwarf to grab fruit from two z-levels above ground. The dwarf doing the gathering will simply drop the fruit to the ground--he will not interrupt his work to haul it to a food stockpile. Any passing dwarf, meanwhile, can collect the fruit and haul it away.
Stepladders can be made from wood by a carpenter at a carpenter's workshop, or metal by a metalcrafter at a forge. Stepladders are stored in the Tools section of the Finished Goods stockpile, and managed from the tools section of the Stocks screen.
Forging and Melting
- Metal stepladders cost two metal bars to forge, or six adamantine wafers.
- When a non-adamantine metal stepladder is melted down, it will return 1.8 metal bars, for an efficiency of 90%.
- When an adamantine stepladder is melted down, it will produce 1.8 wafers, for an efficiency of 30%.