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Lord Snow

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Do bolts (re-)stack now?
« on: July 18, 2018, 06:24:34 am »

I've looked at http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Crossbow and http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Bolt but neither contains the information:
Are bolts collected into stacks of [whatever maximum size] now, or are we still stuck with individual bolts being hauled around and forever alone?
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Re: Do bolts (re-)stack now?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2018, 06:52:58 am »

No, items cannot be re-stacked in Vanilla DF.
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Re: Do bolts (re-)stack now?
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2018, 09:04:28 pm »

I've been trying to think of sneaky ways to get the dwarfs to put ammo into quivers, but so far with no luck.
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Re: Do bolts (re-)stack now?
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2018, 09:36:20 pm »

To get dwarfs to collect many scattered individual bolts at once, they need a container-related job. Either allow your ammo supplies to run low enough where hunters/markdwarfs decide to refill their quiver with many single bolts, or make a temporary binned ammo stockpile. I use the second option by toggling the ammo stockpile to accept-from-anywhere when siege cleanup starts and toggling it to links-only afterwards. You have rare bin-conflict announcements if no one is trying to add bolts while others are removing them.
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Re: Do bolts (re-)stack now?
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2018, 01:05:09 am »

allow your ammo supplies to run low enough where hunters/markdwarfs decide to refill their quiver with many single bolts,

I tried doing that, but they only seem to refill their quivers when they actually go out hunting.  My only work around seems to be to temporarily put them in the military, station them and then take them out of the military again (which is a PITA) -- and I wonder if I've fubarred the quivers because they'll be "military" bolts instead of "hunting" bolts...
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Miles_Umbrae

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Re: Do bolts (re-)stack now?
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2018, 03:35:51 am »

It's too bad that quivers doesn't work a little more like bags whereby any hauler can stuff one full and then that is what's being stored, either as is on the ground or in bins.
And when a hunter is out of bolts he just goes and grabs a new quiver instead.
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