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Quote from: SpiralDimentia on June 17, 2012, 12:10:36 pm

Oh, so the reason the spears were white was because they were just being used, and weren't specifically assigned?

Edit: New problem. I have their uniform set to use a ''white metal helm'' but they are not equipping the very available and very not-forbidden Yak bone helms. [In my humble opinion, the bonecarver should've used the wolverine bones, but who am I to judge.]

I've only managed to get bone items to work before by just using 'white', so try dropping the 'metal' tag.

Just a note here, but if you are running DF 34.11 then Toady added a way to see if equipment has already been assigned in the specific assignment menu, so that should solve your assigning things to multiple dwarves problem.

You can also just tell your dwarves to ignore death items or forbid the stuff you don't want them to pick, whenever you see a dead gobbo.

What options do you have enabled or disabled in the stockpile?  Include both the basic settings and the types of items allowed.

It sounds to me like you may have disabled the "Additional Options" setting, which will disallow all types of materials.

If that isn't it, set the hotkeys to jump to problematic stockpiles and upload the save so we can troubleshoot it.

Is the stockpile set to take from something? That might be the cause of the problem. Also, if you look at the bars, do they have "tsk" next to them or not? If so, that means there is a task assigned that involves the bars.

Edit: Are your idle dwarves set to haul bars? Are they assigned to any burrows and do you have any military alerts on? Those can all mess up the hauling process. Also, are the bars and stockpile accessible?

Custom stockpiles sometimes need more than one option enabled to get things stored, if the items can be made of different materials or there are extra options (empty cages for the Animal stockpile, prepared meals for the Food stockpile, sandbags for the Furniture stockpile...). These are switched on automatically once you enable a category in the leftmost list, but can be switched off if you're using the 'block all' option to make picking specific things off the middle list easier. But the Bar/Block stockpile doesn't have anything like that...

Are the stockpiles set to take from links only? Are there any wheelbarrows assigned to the stockpiles?

For the goblin cage, look at the orders menu, see if you have animal hauling turned on. hell, for all of them see if the orders menu shows animal, food, etc hauling. My own experience is the food, i had it set (somehow) to Ignore Food, all my crops withered, was pretty pissed. Look at your orders menu.