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[targetstar]

yea, so i set a huge area to store stone, outside my base, but no one is storing it, and i have 15 idlers >.>

[Loud Whispers]

You set a stone stockpile?

Are those 15 idlers set to haul stone?

Are the stones not being stockpiled being used for a task?

[Tolisk]

Are they set to dump
Is it a custom stockpile
Do your dwarfs have chronic magma-luvin syndrome?

[targetstar]

its my 1st year, i set it to stone dump, i even check useing q-s, and all my people have stone haul except my miners, its not set to dump, cause i have not mass dump anything yet, there just not doign anything

[Tolisk]

They might be blocked, i had that kind of trouble with ramps.

[targetstar]

the rock is next to the area, around 5 tiles awary, no ramp, and they keep on going threw the ramp, area that is down at the bottom

[Garath]

you set it to be dumped? make a garbage zone.

stone is automatically moved to a stockpile, unless you do something strange.

[Loud Whispers]

...I can't actually understand what's going on here. Screen shots?

[knutor]

Useless footfalls.  Don't use a stone stockpile, until an established smelting industry is created.  Use Dump + an Activity Zone, instead.  And then reclaim the rock from the Dump.  The only time I use stone specific stockpiles, beside during smelting metal rocks, is if I want a 3x3 pile of a specific stone, like say, just 'granite' in order to build a pretty colored megaproject with ease.  I never leave stone stockpiles, unspecified.  Footfalls are too important early on, to waste on OCDing rocks about.  There is just WAY, WAY, WAY, too many of them, I suggest always setting it to a specific stone and limiting the size to no larger than 3x3.  This method has the additional boon of always putting say, 'granite' on the top of the rock material choice list, after locating the megaproject wall, because it lowers its distance to the job, and puts it ahead of the other rocks, if its put near the megaproject.  If that makes any sense.  HA!  Sincerely, Knutor

[kingubu]

I'd check (o)rders.  "(s)dwarves gather/ignore minerals"

I once accidentally turned off wood gathering and was pounding my head on the computer trying to figure out why all my wood stockpiles stopped working.

They also won't dump stone from outside if they're set to ignore refuse outside. (o)(r)(o)  That was another fun half hour of confusion for me.

[BigD145]

They also won't dump stone from outside if they're set to ignore refuse outside. (o)(r)(o)  That was another fun half hour of confusion for me.

The orders menu is often overlooked and quite powerful.

[targetstar]

wow, i think i prob accidently clicked it when i was turning off the bolts for forbiddon, never thought of that o.O

tx it works