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[Crushy]

It's back. After reclaiming a fort twice (hunger problems with the first reclaim crew if you must know) I noticed some items are constantly left untouched by dwarves. For instance, there are a lot of coins near my coin stockpile they won't move, even though they have been busily hauling coins that wound up in the middle of the woods.

It also seems it's not just a job issue. There are 2 corpses right in the middle of my fortress, a section which has been cleaned up 2 years ago. They have completely finished rotting and are now just standing there for no apparent reason. I can't even build walls on top of them due to "Object blocking site"

[Footkerchief]

Everything in a reclaimed fort starts off forbidden.  Have you reclaimed the items?

[Crushy]

Oh yes, I'm sure of that. I even marked them for dumping. It's not the first time I've had this problem. I think channelling under the object works but I don't really want to ruin my fort like this

[CobaltKobold]

Dwarves won't move items out of the way of a building if the items're tasked for something else- whether it's building the next segment of wall, moving to stockpile, or e'en dumping. So, oddly, if you remo'e the dump designations and unsuspend whate'er was getting blocked, it should go through.

Should.

[Crushy]

Nope, that's not it. I just checked to make sure 

Also, I think the fact they haven't degraded and/or released miasma in a few years tells me something is very wrong with those 2 corpses.

[Draco18s]

Objects that were TSK'd for anything when you abandoned the fortress get stuck.

[Battlecat]

Objects that were TSK'd for anything when you abandoned the fortress get stuck.

Yes, I noticed this problem as well.  Several structures were under construction when I abandoned my fortress.  In frustration, I decided to channel out the rock underneath of some of these items to make room for the structures I wanted to build and put the inaccessible items in an empty room below.  As a result, it appears to have reset the item's availability and my dwarves promptly walked over, picked it up and put it where it belonged. 

I'm going to do some additional testing to confirm this actually works. 

Edit/update: I tested this further with a bunch of other items that were unavailable for construction and were completly ignored by the dwarves.  Once I channeled out the rock under them, the item became available again. 

[Crushy]

Yes, I always suspected it was about carried items when abandoning the fort. At least now we can confirm it. Maybe visiting the site as an adventurer before reclaiming can fix it? I'd hate to channel my whole fortress.