I then paid attention to my food stockpile - it was choked with stones, copper ore and the unprocessed fish one of my dwarves had been gathering. Apparently, no one considered clearing up the debris to make room. I set up another stockpile outside a minute later - the plump helmets there braved flies and constant rain without so much as wincing.
I'd like to ask that dwarves use stockpiles more intelligently, knowing when inappropriate items (such as the stones left behind after excavation) can be safely cleared and replaced with useful objects.
Also, this is the second time a dwarf placed down a floodgate while standing on the wrong end of the tunnel, and got himself locked out as a consequence. Perhaps a bit of pathfinding ought to determine where he needs to stand? I don't see any circumstances when the player would want to deliberately shut his dwarves off from the surface, unless he was struggling with a really troublesome siege. I'd mention that another dwarf got stuck on the other side of another floodgate a few minutes later, while digging a trench to the first floodgate.
[ August 19, 2006: Message edited by: Anvilsmith ]
I hope that clears things up.
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Did you have enough room in your mining stockpile? Dwarves won't move stones, ore, and so forth unless they have someplace to put it.
Maybe I'm just being needlessly steadfast in my opinion, though. It again seems like I'm the only one who waits until things are clear before building things or designating piles. =)
It would be nice if it could prioritize haul tasks that are blocking something, though, and/or a "clear space" task you could toggle.
[ August 19, 2006: Message edited by: RPB ]