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[kingubu]

Done some searching and can't find any info on this.

I have a minecart system for cleaning up the battlefield after sieges.  And it's working mostly.  But I just noticed a dwarf picking up a bin of ammo where it was dumped at the track stop then carrying it back outside to the ammo pile instead of the stockpile directly below him by 4 z

I was hoping that he would take it to the nearest one, but now I'm confused.  Does stockpile selection ignore other z levels, or is it just random?

It's fixed easy enough by making the track dump a stockpile and adding a take-from link.  But the behavior made me wonder if anyone knew the answer.

Edit: Oh yeah, I was also wondering if there was a setting to make stockpiles not auto-assign bins/barrels.  TIA!

[slothen]

the stockpile itself generates the job, chooses the item, and then eventually a dwarf takes it.  The item becomes tasked once the dwarf takes the job, unlike designating buildings/constructions.  And I believe that when items are tasked for jobs, z-levels are ignored (unreasonably, doing a distance calculation in 3 dimensions isn't any harder than doing it in 2).

[kingubu]

Thanks!  This helps.