How to make dwarves fill a far stockpile?
I'm trying to follow the quickstart guide.
When I made a [first] room and marked it as a stockpile, dwarves didn't do anything.
When I did the same with a room closer to the starting wagon, dwarves began to haul items to it. When I removed stockpile from the second room they still don't move things to the first one.
There is only one dwarf which moves maple wheelbarrow back and forth, others just drink booze.
Best Answer
Usually dwarfs should always place any items into the nearest accessible and elligible stockpile no matter how far away it is, when the item is:
- on the floor or in a building (like a workshop or the wagon you start with)
- not marked as
Forbidden - not marked as
Dump - not required for a task another dwarf is executing right now (for example, when a cook starts to "Prepare a lavish meal" in a kitchen, the nearest four stacks of food are marked and won't be touched by other dwarfs unless the task gets cancelled)
A possible reason why this doesn't happen might be that the stockpile settings do not have the correct good type(s) enabled. Note that the settings are granular and don't just allow you to define what item categories to accept (like Weapons), but also what specific items which fall into those categories (like Battle Axes), what materials (like Copper) and where it applies also what quality levels (like +fine+). Make sure that the settings of the stockpile allows all the classifications of the items you want to store in them.
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