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[Coriantumr]

I have a lot of goblin socks, etc accumulating out in front of my fortress. I want to clean it up, so I just dump designated it all and put the pile just inside the fortress so that I could bring it to safety and then sort it all out. However, my dwarves seem to be hauling the items to a stockpile and then hauling them *again* from there to the dump pile.

[Draco18s]

If they were already tasked to go to the stockpile this might happen.

[Coriantumr]

I thought that might have been the case, but it is happening so regularly I don't think it's a coincidence.

I'm also pretty sure there were no existing stockpile jobs. I had forbidden the lot of it because I didn't want my dwarves dashing headlong into an ambush to grab socks. I dump designated at the very same time I unforbade so theoretically the only hauling jobs that should have been generated for the items were dumping jobs.

[valcon]

One thing you can do is, if the item isn't selected for a dump task immediately after designation, it's probably already on a task list, so, just really quickly forbid the item, then re-dump it.  That will clear any previous tasks and slate the dump as the primary task, I believe.  Hope that helps.