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Title: How to get rid quickly of all the discarded clothing?
Post by: The Red Kraken on October 31, 2022, 06:04:48 pm

I've created an atom smasher with a dump area beneath it. But I have to manually hunt down discarded clothing and ordered them to dump it. After years of a fortress and a couple of sieges, my map has hundreds of clothes scattered around. Is there and efficient manner of destroying them?

Title: Re: How to get rid quickly of all the discarded clothing?
Post by: A_Curious_Cat on October 31, 2022, 06:39:47 pm

Let the garbage truck (https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Trading) deal with it?

Title: Re: How to get rid quickly of all the discarded clothing?
Post by: Blue_Dwarf on November 01, 2022, 04:07:29 am

Simply go to the stock menu and dump all clothing items. Then make some new clothes, much more convenient than dealing with old scattered crap.

Title: Re: How to get rid quickly of all the discarded clothing?
Post by: Bumber on November 01, 2022, 01:27:42 pm

QSP, but it dumps non-masterworks into magma. Your clothier's workshop gives to your new clothes stockpile, and everything else ends up in the trash QSP. Masterworks can be sold or left to rot in a refuse stockpile, unless you don't mind bad thoughts from destruction.

Title: Re: How to get rid quickly of all the discarded clothing?
Post by: anewaname on November 01, 2022, 04:33:50 pm

The dfhack "cleanowned" command. It doesn't destroy items, it just flags them for dumping (use "cleanowned help" to see the options).

If you have some tolerance for bins and there is stuff from 100+ goblins and a long walk, this method can be more efficient...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Next to your dump zone, make four 1-tile stockpiles, a 10x20 stockpile, the four stockpiles set to give to the large one, the large one set to accept-from-links-only, all set to binned and accepting clothing. This setup means that only 4 dwarfs will take the walk to gather stuff but they will haul 20 or 50 items instead of one. Once the cleanup is mostly done and all the items are close to the dump zone, run cleanowned and mobs of dwarfs move the stuff. Then, toggle the four stockpiles to accept-from-links-only to disable them until the next siege cleanup.

Title: Re: How to get rid quickly of all the discarded clothing?
Post by: NTJedi on November 02, 2022, 02:23:30 am

The clothing wears out WAY too fast within Dwarf Fortress....  it's like the stuff is made out of paper towels. 
Even 2000 years ago the clothing which was made would last several years even for people who did hard labor. 

The fast destruction of clothing in this game only adds boring micro-management instead of allowing the player to focus on more fun aspects.

Title: Re: How to get rid quickly of all the discarded clothing?
Post by: Thisfox on November 06, 2022, 06:53:03 pm

Quote from: NTJedi on November 02, 2022, 02:23:30 am

The clothing wears out WAY too fast within Dwarf Fortress....  it's like the stuff is made out of paper towels. 
Even 2000 years ago the clothing which was made would last several years even for people who did hard labor. 

My dorfs have clothing that does last that long: Are you making yours out of paper towel? I really don't need to start a clothing industry for three years or more, pretty good for clothes that are constantly worn with no replacements.

Perhaps what we really need is a clothing repair function, so that darns, sashiko and patches can upgrade xxclothingxx to *clothing* again.