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Just look at this, but it is not yet clear how to handle this
r =  remove

"r = remove" is only in the main job manager queue.
Once you are viewing conditions on a specific order (with 'c = conditions'), 'r = reagent condition' which will add conditions on the input materials for the order.

I am on 47.04 and would like to get DFHack as it sounds like it has some wonderful quality of life features, but I figured I'd wait until a more stable release of it that supports 47.04.

The pressure plate does show it has a 2nd mechanism installed, and won't let me link to the door (doesn't show in list anymore when I try to link to door), so I assume it is hooked up correctly.

I was worried maybe the weight triggering settings weren't correct; does anyone know if the pathing algorithm would analyze whether the door blocking the track would go away if they go over the pressure plate? Or if I didn't link it up correctly/had no pressure plate, would a dwarf just guide the cart until blocked by the door, and then sit there waiting for the door to open forever?

I'm guessing the latter; i.e., this isn't an issue with the pressure plate, the symptom of that would be the dwarf would guide the cart south past the plate and just get stuck when the door doesn't open. instead they get the exclamation point/confusion symbol or whatever, and then haul the cart around the long way.



The route is setup almost identically to the working route; head south from the first stop when full of desired items, take from a nearby wood stockpile (this is a difference; the first route takes from the stockpile visible in the screenshot, the 2nd route takes from a different stockpile that is up a few z-levels from the screenshot; this appears to work as dwarves load the cart just fine from that stockpile), head to stop 2 (track stop with max friction & dump to the south, stop orders are to head north when empty of desired items, give to the quantum stockpile just south of the track stop; this is the other difference, the first route dumps to a different stockpile).

Dwarf hauls the cart around outside and through main entrance, plops it down at stop 2 (whereupon it instantly dumps the load of wood that was inside into the correct stockpile just to the south), dwarf guides the cart back to stop 1, they load the cart, and then haul it around the long way again...

One experiment I will try to verify that the door isn't the issue is to delay the cart from leaving stop 1 (e.g., add a timer condition), open the door with another lever (door is hooked to pressure plates on each side and to a manual release lever), and see if they will use the route once the door is open. This will not work properly, I'm guessing (when they trigger the plate it will close the door instead of opening it), but I'll see what happens.
I also made sure to use the same weight cart (copper minecart) in both routes, as I configured the 2nd route's pressure plate triggers based on the weight of the first route's cart, but then saw that the zinc cart I built was lighter and wouldn't trigger them properly. (It had been set up with the zinc cart and the zinc cart had started being loaded, but I swapped it out for copper before they fully loaded it.)

Both routes show the yellow exclamation point with warning "! Set dir/connect track" at both stops, presumably due to the door in the middle of the routes.

I have a corpse stockpile, and separately a refuse stockpile with the corpses submenu enabled (and nothing else enabled).
The former usually gets the corpses (and body parts, for some reason, ignoring my outside refuse stockpile that accepts bodyparts) of my enemies. The refuse one gets hunter kills, etc, and is by my butcher shop.

I had a few wardogs killed, none of which were assigned to anyone, and their corpses are being put in the butchery stockpile, but can't be butchered. They stay there til they rot, and then their skeletons are also staying in that stockpile.
Is there a way to set things up so these skeletons get moved somewhere else?

I saw a dwarf carting a heavy load of metal bars, and I was wondering why. It said he was putting it in a stockpile. So I followed him, while he took the 10 or so lead & zinc bars from the smelter across the whole fort to put them in my furniture & stone blocks stockpile... (I have two metal bar stockpiles pretty close to the smelter, neither is full.)

The stockpile he stored them in does not have metal bars enabled. The only category enabled under bars/blocks is "Blocks: Stone/Clay".
There is room in both the stockpiles right by the smelters.

I checked other bins in the stockpile he took the bars to; none of them have metal bars, they all have stone blocks as expected.


Anyone know what may have caused this?

Nevermind, a while after I forbid the boar corpse someone came to take him to the hospital.

My hunter picked up all equipment except ammo.
I tried many things (unassign hunting, recruit with different weapon, unrecruit after changing equipment, reassign hunting, etc).
I tried different dwarves.

Finally while messing with military ammunition, I noticed under ammunition that hunter had some specific 4 sets of 25 bolts selected. I cleared it and added generic 100 bolts again. The hunter picked them up and got to work.

When he ran out of bolts, he idled again. The hunter ammo section still had 4 specific sets of 25 bolts selected. To get him to hunt again I had to clear it & put 100 generic bolts again, and then de-assign hunting & reassign it (without that, he just kept socializing in the tavern).

Am I going to have to keep doing this every time he runs out of bolts? Is there a workaround for this issue?

Do it the other way round with your barrels - make the still stockpile the main one, and let overflow go to an overflow stockpile.

How do I do that? Tell my still stockpile to 'G'ive to the overflow stockpile?

I thought it worked like this:
 - Dwarves take stuff to the nearest stockpile
 - If a stockpile is giving/taking from another one, items will be moved. (E.g., if a dwarf brings something to stockpile 1, which is set to give items to stockpile 2, a hauling job will be generated to move that item from pile 1 to pile 2, if there is room)

Is this not how it works? If not, could someone explain?


Further, I disabled both barrels & large pots/food storage in my main stockpile, and made sure neither the still stockpile nor the main one are giving/taking from any other pile. They are set to accept from anywhere. Neither are giving to a workshop either.
However, the pots are just sitting in the main stockpile (which is configured to no longer take them).
Not a single pot is making it to the still stockpile.

AND, now pots are piling up in my craftsdwarf workshops.

Durr--I need to make it into cloth

My bad