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[GoldenShadow]

I dug all the way down to the magma sea right at the start of my embark to build my fort very deep. There is a TON of hematite, limonite, coal on the surface of the map. Instead of using up all my time waiting for the haulers to bring the ore down to be smelted, I dug a 1x1 channel from the the surface alllll the way down to my magma smelters. I set the tile next to the hole as a garbage zone and marked all the mined ore to be dumped. the dwarfs will pick up the ore and drop it in the hole, where it will fall all the way to the bottom, where I have to reclaim it.

If I tap into this garbage chute on different Z-levels, can I setup multiple garbage zones, and will the dwarfs be smart enough to use the closest one?

[Astramancer]

Yes.

I usually have a central staircase that's 3x3 with a hole in the middle which is a central garbage chute.  Dwarves use it just fine.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

I had a setup like this in v32.  I thought I was being all clever and all, a garbage chute directly down to the semi-molten rock, so anything dumped would disappear for good.  I put a bunch of access points along my main stairwell so that dwarves could get to it wherever they wanted.

Then some kind of flying titan came, and made it through my main defenses.  He stormed down the main staircase, attacking dwarves left and right.  He didn't have to kill them, because there was a convenient drop chute directly adjacent for all my dwarves to dodge into.  They'd fall, get blown apart by the distance, and their bits disappeared into the semi-molten rock.  Dwarven garbage chute indeed.

[Greendogo]

In order to prevent random flying creatures access and clumsy dwarves falling down the chute, you could set up a series of retractable floor bars so that garbage would build up somewhere or at every level and then you could pull the appropriate level when you wanted to clear the chute.  Do adamantine floor bars require longer for building destroyers to get through than iron bars?

[Nil Eyeglazed]

I think the time it takes BD is just a factor of quality, of which bars have none.  However, there's not reason to use bars instead of bridges, which are BD proof.

If you do alternating drops (which could be automated with a 2-step repeater pretty easily) you have to be careful of placement.  If dwarves can path to the dump zone, they won't see it as a drop zone-- if that changes between when the dwarves take the task and when they finish it, they might cancel and just leave trash next to the chute.  But something like this would work:

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would work, and limit your dwarves to, at most, 2 z-levels to fall.