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DF Gameplay Questions / Haulers ignoring garbage zones
« on: July 24, 2010, 06:14:24 pm »
I'm just digging out a permanent dining hall/meeting room now that my start-up one has been outgrown, and marked the rock for dumping.
Now, I've been regularly dumping rock since I started the fort. There are garbage zones on every level, and outside every area where I've been doing heavy mining/building. But not long before I started this room, a group of goblins came. They were killed by drowning and a bit of mace-led facial redecoration, and their (suprisingly good) equipment liberated for the cause. The cause being 'a very sharp welcome mat for the next batch'. It is a fine and noble cause.
My problem is that since dumping the goblin parts on the far side of a brook, well out of the way, the dwarves are refusing to dump things anywhere else, even stone. They're walking past several perfectly good garbage zones and refuse designations, including several empty ones. I've tried taking off the 'Dump' marker and replacing it, deleting and remaking zones, and the zone they're taking too is now deleted, and the whole area around it marked as restricted traffic. But they're still making a long and pointless trek past much better sites to drop the stones on the one spot. It's really irritating me, and exposing them to stupid amounts of danger. Is this a known bug? Any ideas?
I'm using 31.10.
Now, I've been regularly dumping rock since I started the fort. There are garbage zones on every level, and outside every area where I've been doing heavy mining/building. But not long before I started this room, a group of goblins came. They were killed by drowning and a bit of mace-led facial redecoration, and their (suprisingly good) equipment liberated for the cause. The cause being 'a very sharp welcome mat for the next batch'. It is a fine and noble cause.
My problem is that since dumping the goblin parts on the far side of a brook, well out of the way, the dwarves are refusing to dump things anywhere else, even stone. They're walking past several perfectly good garbage zones and refuse designations, including several empty ones. I've tried taking off the 'Dump' marker and replacing it, deleting and remaking zones, and the zone they're taking too is now deleted, and the whole area around it marked as restricted traffic. But they're still making a long and pointless trek past much better sites to drop the stones on the one spot. It's really irritating me, and exposing them to stupid amounts of danger. Is this a known bug? Any ideas?
I'm using 31.10.