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[Five chickens]

I'm trying to set up a stockpile for oil, oil, and nothing but the oil.  So far, this is proving difficult.  How do you handle this?  Thanks in advance.

[Mobbstar]

I understand why so many people are suddenly on about stockpiling oil, but they seem pessimistic about alternative resources.

Your question is vague, so I will start with the basics:  Oil is, to my knowledge, handled similarly to drink stockpiles.  Food -> Extract (Plant) -> [Plant] Oil

Make sure you have barrels assigned to the stockpile and available.  Forbid the entire Food category using 'b', then enable the specific oils using 'Enter'.  The stockpile should take from anywhere unless you have explicit workshop links.  If you have drawn workshop-restricting burrows, those may interfere.

[Five chickens]

Is oil stored in barrels?  I thought they were jug-exclusive.

[Mobbstar]

Is oil stored in barrels?  I thought they were jug-exclusive.

Eight.  If they cannot be transferred to barrels, then it seems you need to make a jug stockpile.^[1]

Even when filled with food, they will be stored in the Finished Goods stockpile. Jugs are stacked in bins.

[brewer bob]

You don't necessarily need barrels to store the filled jugs in a food stockpile. At least with honey it's worked fine for me (I could remember wrong though).

Edit. Apparently I remembered wrong.

[A_Curious_Cat]

Jugs are stored (under tools) in a finished goods stockpile regardless of their contents.  Separating them into different stockpiles according to their contents is impossible.

Edit:

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=4229

[Mohreb el Yasim]

Maybe linking the oil making workshop as an input link to the stockpile could make it work.