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I have a minecart route to bring wood from afar.

I had one route set up, and it works fine. It is a straight track that goes up a level via a ramp.
It has a pressure plate a few tiles from a door on each side, opening the door for the minecart.
So:
 stop by wood stockpile (take from that stockpile, wood prefered) -> NS tracks to bridge -> across bridge -> NS tracks to pressure plate (including under it) -> plate opens door further down -> NS tracks to ramp (past pressure plate triggered on empty wagon coming back) -> NS upward tracks up ramp -> NS tracks to track stop (including under track stop), which is where the 2nd stop is (give to the quantum stockpile on the other side of the track stop, track stop set to highest friction & dump).
Haulers guide the cart.

I set up a second, identical route two tiles to the right (so one tile of wall between them). I have checked over it thoroughly, and all the tracks are present (except under the bridge, but that is the same in the working route), including NS tracks on both the up & down ramp, and track under the track stop.
But the second route only works in one direction--the haulers fill the cart, then manually haul it up the stairs outside, around to the main entrance, down through that, and around to where it should dump in the quantum pile. Once they reach stop 2, they guide the cart just fine back to stop 1. Then repeat the manual hauling the long way around to stop 2...

Anyone have any ideas I can try to figure out what is wrong?

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?

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?

Hi guys,

So I have 2 stockpiles near my still:

 - one for plants. This one works fine

 - one for barrels & large pots/food storage. This one doesn't work. I have it '[T]aking' from my main stockpile, where I left both barrels & large pots/food storage active, as I don't have space to store them all in my still stockpile.

My intention was that the still's barrel stockpile be kept full, with overflow going to the general stockpile.


What do I need to do to make this happen?

I can't seem to recall... which stockpiles do I have to clear loose rock off of instead of just hiding it?

I am pretty sure the following do, but would like a full list:
 - stone stockpile
 - furniture stockpile


Any others?

I'm not sure what I'm missing... I've got a jeweler's workshop set up next to a gem stockpile. I've got 3 rough blue jades in the stockpile.
I have a dwarf with gem cutting enabled.

When I go to the workshop and try to add a new task, I get the menu with 'cut gems' and 'encrust gems', but pressing 'c' for cut does nothing. (Same with encrust, but I don't have any cut gems I could encrust with, so thats as expected.)

Am I missing something?

EDIT: Using the job manager I was able to add the jobs, and they show up in the workshop. But going through the workshop interface didn't work.

So I've seen bugs 0000597 and 0000600 in the bug tracker.

I have a slightly different situation, and it apparently isn't common (at least, no one else I've seen complained of this), so perhaps people are aware of a way to make it stop happening:

I have 3 farmers in a burrow together with their farm plots, plant & unprocessed food storage, a kitchen, a still, a farmers workshop, a dining room, a small prepared food stockpile, and 2 1-tile booze stockpiles.

None of the farmers have hauling labors enabled at all. Each has farming (fields). One has cooking, one has brewing, and one has milling & plant processing & whatnot for working in the farmers workshop.

I defined the burrow, and added the 3 to it. They came in just fine, no spam. I then queued a few brew drink orders at the still. After completing one, I started seeing spam from the brewer canceling 'store item in stockpile' because the dropoff is inaccessible.
Looking at the job screen ('j'), I saw he was tasked to haul the barrel of wine he just made to a booze stockpile outside of his burrow. I don't know why he wants to do this, given that he has no hauling labors...

I forbid the wine barrel, and he stopped spamming and went about his business. I unforbid it, and one of the other farmers came over and stood on top of it spamming job cancellation. The other farmer also had no hauling labors.

So--is there any way I can keep these guys in their burrow, producing stuff, and NOT have them try to haul it out? The bugs I reference at the start are due to:
 - A civie being in the midst of hauling something when they get assigned to the burrow. This was not the case
 - Civies with hauling labors enabled trying to haul things from their burrow to a stockpile outside their burrow. Also not the case--no hauling enabled.

Thanks for any help!

So I have a dwarf with lots of injuries (mining collapse).

he has been diagnosed by the chief medical dwarf, who determined he needs:
Surgery, Sutures, Setting, Dressing, Immobilization
He has infections (cause I don't have soap yet), if that matters...

I have doctors with surgery, dressing, suturing, etc enabled, sitting around with 'no job'.

The guy's medical history shows he was brought in to rest, diagnosed, cleaned, and thats it so far.

What am I missing? I checked, and everything except gypsum powder and thread is stocked in the hospital (there is cloth but no thread). How do I get my doctors to start cutting into this dwarf?