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Hey wow, I always wondered what that was for. Thanks guys!

If you do try to assign all your dwarves to 1 burrow there is a particularly nasty bug that will likely screw up any and all hauling tasks eventually
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=600. If you fail to  manage to ensure that all your stockpiles don't potentially have targets outside the burrows you will get failed to stockpile spam and also you will eventually kill your fortress because vital hauling jobs will be ignored when the spam attempts to assert itself on dwarves over and over again.

I've had butcher shops adn bins full of rough gems sit for months withing a burrow along with their associated stockpiles despite having 15 idle dwarves.

Worst bug ever !!

When bringing a cage to the Trade Depot in order to trade it, any wild animals inside the cage will be freed. Tamed animals can be safely traded. Bug:4065

Holy fk another bug!!!!!!

First the Burrows stockpile item cancellation bug and now this..

I think i'm gonna have to give this game a rest until all these bugs are sorted. I just can't work around these damn bugs!!

is the still restricted to taking from somewhere, or the stockpile restricted to giving to somewhere that is not the still?

no other then a burrows overlapping my entire base

Also, have you set a number of barrels to be reserved in the placing stockpiles screen?

Not the fortress status one but the one you get by press p for the stockpiles command.

You mean by pressing the r and e keys to increase and decrease reserves just like c and v for bins? yes i MAX out reserve barrels for the drink stockpile. This is infact the problem i need to max it out to have barrels present but doing so forces empty barrels to stay.

Thanks, i havn't begun to mess with military yet but i'm starting to feel really good with burrows, barrels and stockpiles.

the bug I really find annoying in 34.11 to the point that version is unplayable for me is the one with constructions, where a dwarf, say building a wall, will stand on the very tile the wall is to be built and will get a "creature occupying site" error, the worst is that it seems to be completely random, if at least it was predictable like when we used to avoid dwarves to get trapped by building a wall (and suspend it) where we didn't want them to stand...

Yeah this is hell. I'm trying to build a wall on top of a wall and i have to lay each individual block manually for all stacked portions of the wall.

Not to mention fish not migrating from off the map onto the map makes fisherdwarves or geoengineering projects to make fishing faster/safer kinda pointless to invest in.

As far as OP hauler's grabbing bins  that others happen to be working from forces me to stop playing the game and try to understand the source of the cancellation. I spend more time on pause verifying that i'm not going to have extensive moments of idleness.

One way i found , i think , around this is to basically make one large burrows that encompasses your ENTIRE base and assign ANY dwarf with hauling to it.. Then in the stockpiles that cause cancelations you cut them out of the burrows and only allow a few dwarfs access to this point by removing them from the main burrows, That way you will only get one or two dwarves managing or updating those piles rather then 80 which means it will be interrupted less frequently.

Beware if you try this there is another nasty bug that causes constant cannot find item spam. If you have this spam your likely including a stockpile in your burrows.

this begs the question, you can't even transfer bins or barrels to the depot when the elves come or can you use bins but ONLY sell the items inside if you don't want to offend ?

Sell them to the elves. It takes 10 years for a troglodyte to mature, so there isn't much point in breeding them.

will selling the elves items in wooden containers, in this case i used wooden cages to capture them be an issue?

Also do you sell the troglodyte or the actual cage with the troglodyte?

Why is it African nations can militarize children effectively but dwarven colonies and outposts havn't developed this innovation yet?