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Yeah I've noticed this too- basically what seems to happen is that each stockpile is given one empty barrel/bin. Whenever this barrel/bin has an item put in it (it doesn't need to be full) then another empty barrel/bin is brought.

Unfortunately if there are a large number of items brought to the stockpile at once  the barrel carriers cannot keep up. I guess what happens is when a barrel carrier gets a task to carry a barrel the barrel is tagged as whatever stockpile item it is due to be used for before its actually been moved to the correct stockpile.

The problem should solve itself eventually...

A hammerer don't need no reason- he is the reason...

...then reason nobles rooms are fitted with waterproof doors and sprinkler systems...

If you (q), (or is it k?) on the well it should tell you if it is dry or not...

Generally anything that ends up in my moat ends up there because they are flung off a raising drawbridge- into 7/7 water.

So far nothing has survived, indeed nothing has even moved from the square they landed in so I assume there's no swimming involved- Either they are stunned and thus drowned or your moat isn't deep enough I guess...

Although now I come to think of it nothing has ever swam over my moat anyway- I can think of a good way to achieve both the drowning and the stopping if they do though- build you moat two z-levels deep and only fill one z-level with water

[ May 15, 2008: Message edited by: RickiusMaximus ]

Wow, I don't know if any of you guys have ever actually played on terrifying biomes but I think you'll find that your hunters and fishermen don't last very long!

I would recommend relying solely on internal farming and having a big drawbridge to lock yourself in...

You'll also quickly find that even 20 dwarfs arn't enough, you want at least 5 of each basic profession- particularly miners, masons, stone detailers and farmers.

Then at least two of every other minor profession, as there is less work in minor professions you don't want to have to many dwarfs doing them as they will take ages to skill up.

Once you have all your professions sorted then draft everyone else, you need at least 10 marksdwarfs. Not to mention 20 guards and 10 royal guards once you get bigger.

But you cant lock out trolls- they just break the doors down   :confused:

Check their wounds- if they're really badly injured particularly spine, lungs and brain you might want to consider, erm, leaving them a pistol with a single bullet?

How about gear assemblies which start fires if their not greased   :eek: