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[jcrites]

Concept:

Allow the player to designate a zone (perhaps it's actually an Activity Zone, or perhaps a Stockpile) which should be clear.  Any objects on the ground in that area are moved somewhere.  If another stockpile will take the items, they'll be preferentially stored there.

Creating a building will automatically treat its area as a Clear Area.  This way dwarves will automatically move interrupting objects out of the way.

If objects don't fit into another stockpile, perhaps they're just dumped in the closest area.

I would find this feature really useful when I'm mining out sections and stones litter the area.

Extended concept ideas:

Dwarves perform necessary actions to clear the area if it becomes obstructed.  For example, growing trees are cut down, and growing plants are picked.  This could be useful for a variety of reasons, including keeping a path clear for incoming caravans.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

I like this idea, as far as having the dwarfs move the object out of the zone. Finally, a way to get my dwarf's bedrooms clear of enormous rubble piles.

[zagibu]

In the future, the bug with possessed but discarded items should be fixed. Also, stone management will be worked on (realistic mining and hauling suggestions). But this zone might be a good solution until then.

[Canalan]

Designate 1*1 tile zone as a dump.
Press: d, b, d, then enter, drag, and dorfs do the rest.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Designate 1*1 tile zone as a dump.
Press: d, b, d, then enter, drag, and dorfs do the rest.

Inefficient. I don't need my dwarfs to carry the item all the way to the dump, I just want them to move them out of the area they are in.

[Fourdots]

Designate 1*1 tile zone as a dump.
Press: d, b, d, then enter, drag, and dorfs do the rest.

Inefficient. I don't need my dwarfs to carry the item all the way to the dump, I just want them to move them out of the area they are in.

So designate the dump near the area you want them taken out of. Hell, you could designate it all around the border of that area, to absolutely minimize walking.

[Vattic]

This would be really useful, perhaps dwarves should do this with any items that shouldn't be in a stockpile. That way if you place down some new food stockpiles all the rocks would get moved, if you just wanted to clear an area use a custom stockpile with everything unselected in the settings.

[Greep]

Designate 1*1 tile zone as a dump.
Press: d, b, d, then enter, drag, and dorfs do the rest.

Inefficient. I don't need my dwarfs to carry the item all the way to the dump, I just want them to move them out of the area they are in.

So designate the dump near the area you want them taken out of. Hell, you could designate it all around the border of that area, to absolutely minimize walking.

I think many consider the whole infinite space vortex that is a dump an exploit anyways, I try to avoid using it when possible.

[tsen]

I would also prefer this solution over the time-space anomaly dump.