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[SimRobert2001]

Allright, i need wood for my charcoal furnaces.  So, i make a nice wood stockpile, and designate several peasants to haul wood only.  However, they refuse to do it. There's a good, 20,30 logs sitting outside, but the wood hauling peasants do nothing, and my charcoal makers are forced to head outside to get the wood they need instead of across the hall. Am I missing something? SHouldnt' they be able to get all untasked wood that the woodcutters cut and bring it to the stock pile? I checked all the settings, and even remade it.  There's nothing that isn't forbidden. and its definitely wood.

[Il Palazzo]

If my memory serves me right, you can not set haulers to get only wood, so maybe they have other hauling jobs to finish first?

[SimRobert2001]

So, how do i make sure that there's always a dwarf who is hauling wood so that my woodfurnace dwarves dont' have to run outside?

[Il Palazzo]

ok, I haven't really used it, but isn't there an option in job manager to increase prirority of queued jobs? I might be imagineing(sp?) things, though.
You can always make sure that your haulers are not wasting time by hauling e.g. stone(by not making stone stockpiles, or forbidding these in the stocks screen).

[LegacyCWAL]

Are you sure you have the options menu set to allow dwarves to go outside?

[Il Palazzo]

Are you sure you have the options menu set to allow dwarves to go outside?

he said his woodburners go outside, no probs.

[LegacyCWAL]

Oh.  Missed that

[Pilsu]

Are they set to gather wood in the o menu?

[Sowelu]

If my memory serves me right, you can not set haulers to get only wood

isn't there an option in job manager to increase prirority of queued jobs? I might be imagineing(sp?) things, though.

Sorry, I'm afraid you're 0 for 2.  You CAN set wood hauling as its own little option, and it's quite common to make a dwarf or two that only hauls wood and has all other tasks disabled.  And no, there's no way to change priority of jobs yet, sorry.  (In the manager screen, you can say 'make those 30 barrels before those 30 bins', but that's different entirely.)

Don't know what's wrong in this case though.

[juanoleso]

drr...  should read OP, please ignore.

[nil]

Is there waste stone in your wood stockpiles?

[Il Palazzo]

Sorry, I'm afraid you're 0 for 2.  You CAN set wood hauling as its own little option, and it's quite common to make a dwarf or two that only hauls wood and has all other tasks disabled.

There you go, thanks for correcting me. At least I had a vague feeling of uncertainity;). So, could you at least explain how to do it? I bet it'd help not only myself, but the original poster as well.

[azrael4h]

Go to the Labor menu to set job prefs. Towards the bottom of the list is an option for wood hauling, stone hauling, etc...

As to the original question, I have no clue, as I've either turned hauling off entirely or left it on.

[sneakey pete]

The wood outside isn't already in a stockpile is it? if it is, you'll need to make the pile near your wood furnaces take from the outside pile