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[oso]

So I just got slaughtered by a Blizzard Man... only about half my dwarves left, and the fools insist on wasting precious time.

I have a furniture stockpile at the top of my base, and a plump helmet farm with a plump helmet stockpile right next to it. My dwarves are taking the plump helmets all the way upstairs and depositing the plump helmets into the barrels in the furniture stockpile...

How do I stop this?

[zwei]

So I just got slaughtered by a Blizzard Man... only about half my dwarves left, and the fools insist on wasting precious time.

I have a furniture stockpile at the top of my base, and a plump helmet farm with a plump helmet stockpile right next to it. My dwarves are taking the plump helmets all the way upstairs and depositing the plump helmets into the barrels in the furniture stockpile...

How do I stop this?

I would guess simplest way would be to remove that stockpile.

[oso]

If I make a new furniture stockpile would they quit storing food in it's barrels? Why won't they take the barrels down to the food stockpile?

[Aramco]

1. I don't know.

2. Make a food stockpile with 'Take from other stockpiles'  option enabled.

[Veroule]

This is a very old behavior.  Your food stockpile is calling for barrels, each barrel is assigned to it one at a time, and as soon as the barrel is assigned dwarve may store items in it.  The job to bring the barrel to the stockpile tends to end up being buried under the rapidly generated "Store Item to Barrel" tasks.  When the barrel is finally brought to the stockpile the dwarf will up end it, dropping the food that was just stored in it behind.

[vlademir1]

This is a very old behavior.  Your food stockpile is calling for barrels, each barrel is assigned to it one at a time, and as soon as the barrel is assigned dwarve may store items in it.  The job to bring the barrel to the stockpile tends to end up being buried under the rapidly generated "Store Item to Barrel" tasks.  When the barrel is finally brought to the stockpile the dwarf will up end it, dropping the food that was just stored in it behind.

Indeed.  I usually turn on furniture in my food stockpiles with only barrels for types (make sure sandbags is off ) then make sure barrels are off on my furniture stockpiles.  I do the same for any pile using bins (obviously with bins instead of barrels).  It lets me visually see how many more bins and barrels I need and makes that kind of stupidity unlikely, both things that add to efficiency.