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[Antmf]

What does this generally mean? I set my carpenter to make some beds and this is the message I got. Thanks...

[MasterShizzle]

Just as it says on the tin.  Your dwarf was assigned a task and the objective of said task is now in a place that the dwarf can't find a walkable path to. Happens to me a lot if, say, a dwarf starts a project requiring a stone or piece of fruit or something laying on the surface but I just shut the entrance to the fortress.

[Garath]

he probably can't get in or out of the workshop. Each workshop has some impassable tiles, if your entrance is in the bottom left, the two tiles of the workshop block access. Otherwise you accidentally destroyed a stairs or ramp somewhere.

Could not find path means exactly what it says: I can't reach the place where I'm supposed to work.

[Antmf]

Thank you all for answering all of my ridiculous noob questions. You guys are an excellent source of info. Thanks again...

[Garath]

so, what was it?

[Antmf]

I put the darn workshops to close to one another and the dwarf could not get to the resource he needed. What a noob I am!!! lol

[Garath]

Well, it's something always mentioned at first because it's so common, so don't feel bad about it.

[nekoexmachina]

In my first game, I had that alot. Not sure that that version had the error message, but the point was:
1) I build Kitchen, Still, Farmers workshop and Loom close together
2) I play for next 30 minutes, see that my dorfs are "starving" even though I had lotsof stuff that could be cooked & eaten.
3) I think WAT.
Meanwhile, announce happens: "Mr Urist CookGrowerDorf has died of dehydration"
I think again. WAT.
4) I make some coffins for future casualities, designate my tombs, etc.
Miasma starts filling my rooms.
I am even more WAT.
Dorfs could not find path to cook, cook was rotting away, dorfs were tantruming of smell and lack of food.