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[Hans Lemurson]

Is it just me, or do barrels have a disappointingly low capacity for storing prepared food.  It looks like barrels can only hold 10 units of food, but I have meals routinely coming from my kitchen in stacks of 25.  Do meal-stacks get broken up to be put into barrels, or can only the smaller stacks fit into barrels?  I've noticed that half of my stockpile has barrels, while the other half is barrel-less and filled with large stacks of food.

Am I better off eliminating barrels from my prepared-food stockpile entirely, or keeping a few around to consolidate mini-stacks?

[Psieye]

I have never seen a point to putting prepared meals in barrels. I can sell meals without wasting barrels this way. Provided you've got good vermin control (easily achieved) then you may as well have a huge room for a meal stockpile.

[Proteus]

I keep my prepared food stockpile completely free from barrels for the reasons mentioned
(waste of barrels and meals probably get broken up)

Same goes btw. for my seeds stockpile...
donīt know if this bug still is there, but in 40d if there were barrels in your seeds stockpile
dwarves tended to fill them up with bags conatining one seed each (thereby wasting hundreds of bags)
whereas without barrels, as intended, they would try to fill up the seed bags 

[Hans Lemurson]

I've limited my stockpile to only having about 10% barrels, so I'll have a few on hand to consolidate whatever tiny stacks may come.  Actually...why bother?  NO BARRELS FOR PREPARED FOOD!

@Proteus:
Seed stockpiles with barrels hold multiple bags with many many seeds per bag.  I have one bag holding around 100 cave-wheat seeds.

[Proteus]

Good to know,
so Toady seems to really have fixed the seed store behavior in DF 2010

[pushy]

Actually...why bother?  NO BARRELS FOR PREPARED FOOD!

Now you've got the idea

[Ganthan]

Good to know,
so Toady seems to really have fixed the seed store behavior in DF 2010

Actually the seed storage seems roughly the same as in 40d.  Bags get wasted on a single seed because of simultaneous hauling jobs.  The problem is somewhat easily remedied by dumping the single seed out of the bag then reclaiming it, which will cause it to get put into the correct bag with the other seeds.  The exception to this is when the first bag gets 100 seeds in it, which is the maximum seed capacity for bags.  Seeds are capped at 200 of the same type, though you can still buy seed bags from caravans.

This is actually the same problem that causes overstorage of hospital supplies.  Multiple idle dwarves may notice that the current cloth supply is less than the maximum setting so they all start hauling cloth to the hospital at the same time.

[glawen]

So, how do you limit or forbid barrels for a specific foodpile ? I want my prepared meal stockpile (everything blocked except prepared food) to not accept barrels, but I want my other food on my other stockpiles to continue to accept barrels, so my unprepared food still goes into them. Is that possible ?

[Sutremaine]

[q ] over the pile, [E ]

Max Barrel and Max Bin tell the game how many of each are allowed to be used for storage in that stockpile. Both default to the maximum when they can.

[glawen]

Thanks, I should have seen that.

[Lord Darkstar]

Does food, including prepared food, last longer if stored in a barrel? Or does it only last longer when being hauled to the trade depot or sitting in the trade depot if it is in a barrel? I've noticed that most of the food I buy from the traders will spoil very rapidly if it isn't hauled out to a food stockpile of some kind very quickly.

[mrbaggins]

It might matter at the depot.

I've also heard that if unvarreled prepared food gets walked on, it loses quality.