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Dwarf Fortress => DF Gameplay Questions => Topic started by: waerth on July 17, 2020, 03:46:16 am

Title: Did I break wood hauling?
Post by: waerth on July 17, 2020, 03:46:16 am
So another strange one from my nice little fortress.

I build huge piles above ground for everything. Including wood. All filled up nice.

So now I am moving everything into my temporary underground fortress.

All new stockpiles fill nicely. But not the wood one. Even if I put all 17 dwarves to woodhauling. I tried making a wood pile at the spot of the old woodpiles. It also doesn't get filled. The carpenter does go above ground to bring wood down.

So do I have to abandon fortress :( *snif* and start again?
Title: Re: Did I break wood hauling?
Post by: waerth on July 17, 2020, 03:50:55 am
resolved .... I must have changed something in the o(rders) section. Although I have never entered it this game :p
Title: Re: Did I break wood hauling?
Post by: Quarque on July 17, 2020, 04:59:34 am
Yeah it is possible to disable woodhauling through the orders menu. You can easily do it by mistake when you need the orders for workshops.
Title: Re: Did I break wood hauling?
Post by: Uthimienure on July 17, 2020, 07:06:55 am
I'm so glad you posted this. My fort was having wood hauling problems and I was trying to figure it out but having no luck yet. It turned out I had accidentally set "Dwarves Ignore Wood" in the orders menu.
Title: Re: Did I break wood hauling?
Post by: janamdo on July 17, 2020, 02:24:31 pm
Don't worry about wood hauling
Build your fortress further and there are always some dwarfs who are woodhauling

Perhaps you must use Dwarftherapist to see what haulingjobs are "on " 
It easy to then do some haulingjobs later

For instance for your Miner, Carpenter, Mason it is not a good idea if they doing all haulingjobs, because they have to focus on their own job, because you must dig , making workshops etc.
A brewer and cook for only drink and food production in order to get no shortages (  lurking in your fortress..beware)