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Author Topic: How can I force dwarves to use large stone pots for storing seeds and food  (Read 1215 times)

em1LL

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Hi all!

How can I force dwarves to use large stone pots for storing seeds and food? Currenctly I have a lot of empty pots on the furniture stockpile, but dwarves don't use them for storing food. Even more strange is the fact that they can use them for brewing, though I thought that it's possible only when the pots are glazed. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.
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Glazing is only for earthenware, which is a product of regular clay. All other types of pots do not need glazing.

Are your dwarves using anything else to store food or seeds at the moment? If you try and get rid of empty barrels, your dwarves will be more likely to take the pots instead.
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em1LL

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Thanks for the answer!

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Glazing is only for earthenware, which is a product of regular clay. All other types of pots do not need glazing.

Ah, ok.

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Are your dwarves using anything else to store food or seeds at the moment?

No. For example, I have a lot of plump helmet spawns just laying in the food stockpile and I have many empty barrels and large stone pots in the furniture stockpile.
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That is odd. Did you allow the food stockpile to use barrels and pots?

Alternatively, is the furniture stockpile linked to a workshop?
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My dwarves sometimes won't put seeds in anything but a bag, though they'll happily put lots of bags into a barrel. And is the food stockpile full? I have also seen seeds cover up every space of the stockpile, obscuring the barrels/pots beneath.
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My dwarves sometimes won't put seeds in anything but a bag, though they'll happily put lots of bags into a barrel. And is the food stockpile full? I have also seen seeds cover up every space of the stockpile, obscuring the barrels/pots beneath.

Seeds can only be stored in bags. While a bag can be stored in a barrel, dwarves wont store seed directly into it without a bag. So, it might be the problem of the OP, at least for the seed part. Check if you have enought bags for your seeds.

Another common issue with food storage is the size of the stacks. The production of lavish meal, when backed by some legendary growers, can create huge stacks of food that dont fit in any barrel or large pot.
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It's actually recommended to have a seed stockpile separate from your food stockpiles that does not use barrels or pots. This is because seeds are very commonly left behind by dwarves who've just eaten a raw vegetable or by brewers' brewing. Since one barrel can hold a lot of bags of seeds, often the majority if not all (especially early on) your seed stockpile will be fit (inside bags) inside of a single barrel. This means when one of those seeds are generated, a dwarf will grab the barrel and with it all of your seeds, bring the barrel to where the seed is laying, and then put it in a bag in the barrel. This will result in plant seed jobs being cancelled until that barrel is back in place in it's stockpile. Since seeds are so common it is a large reduction in farm productivity as the barrel will be traveling quite a bit. If the stockpile does not allow barrels, only one bag of seeds will be taken leaving other full bags in the stockpile to be planted.
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As for the original issue (dwarves not using pots), I don't have the issue. Either you are doing something wrong (title says stone pots, which doesn't relate to glazing), or one of the binary patches I installed fixed it. But I didn't explicitly install anything to fix it, so probably the former. I mean, DF isn't NetHack, a tiny change somewhere won't randomly break everything else :P
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Personally, once I can get a decent stock and supply of pots (stone or otherwise) I tend to get rid of barrels.

Only once all the barrels are gone will the dorfs stop using them.

Protip: Sell barrels to caravans, keep the pots if they REALLY bug you.
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