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Did you remember to set raw adamantine as a non economic stone? I think it's economic by default.

Quote from: Nan on December 01, 2011, 08:35:00 pm

The reliable ways are to either use the "take" option on the receiving stockpile which is highly effective (although annoying to set unless there's a faster way than manually scrolling to the source stockpile), or remove the old stockpile.

Set up hotkeys so you can move quickly around your fortress. Move to a location, let's say your depot, then hit 'h' to enter the hotkey menu. Then hit the F-key you want, I usually use F2 for my depot. That will highlight the F2 line. Now it 'z' to tell the game to zoom there when you hit F2. Now hit 'n' to name it and type something like "Depot" and hit enter. Then hit esc. Now when you hit F2, you will instantly go to your depot. Set up keys for various parts of your fort and it makes setting up takes much easier, not to mention lots of other things.

I typically have:

• entrance
• depot
• kitchens
• dining hall
• bedrooms
• shops
• magma forges

(Apologies if I got a detail or two wrong in the above explanation, I'm in the middle of genning a new world so I couldn't confirm everything.)

To the OP: It sounds like everything should be working. I'm sure you've checked this, but double (or triple) check your magma-level stockpile to be sure it is really set up to take the correct things. Stones should be pretty straighforward, but for somethings like finished goods, it's easy to turn off everything by hitting 'b' and then turn on a=one item (like mechanisms) and not realize that you've also turned off all quality levels, so nothing ends up going there. Like I said, stones and bars don't tend to have that kind of gotchas, but still take another look to be certain.

Another option is to try making a stockpile halfway down and see if that will work. if it does, try one farther down. if not, try one farther up. Eventually you'll find someplace that works and then work closer and closer to the magma level until it quits working. then look at what is in between those two.

It shouldn't matter.  I have an ore stockpile next to my magma forges just above the magma sea, and dwarves happily bring ore to it from any level on the map.  Make sure you didn't disable hauling of stone in the orders menu.

Yeah, accidentally disabling stone hauling would be one cause, also is it possible that the pathing between the stockpile and the rest of the fortress/accessible area is broken somehow?

Are there rocks left on the floor? You can store bins and barrels on the same square as a rock, but not "unwrapped objects" such as cages and ore.
(H)idden rocks have been the bane of some of my stockpiles (i.e. the "why don't my indoor custom animal stockpile work?" problem)