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[Scotty]

i dug out a cistern in my fortress and started filling it with water, i made 4 buckets for the task but on 2 are being used.
i got plenty of idle workers so why aren't all 4 buckets being used to fill the cistern, right now the water is drying up as fast as my dwarves fill.

[SoloDwarf]

The trick is to put many designations for pit/pond areas.  Right now it looks like one pit/pond area means only 1 fill job.  Make 4 pit/ponds and then you will use all 4 buckets.

[Scotty]

alright, i'll give that a try then

[Scotty]

ok making several pond zones worked but i found something else odd, i seem to get alot of "cancels fill pond: needs empty bucket" messages when the dwarves dump the water into the cistern, and it's the same dwarves that had just dumped the water that cancels

[Scotty]

bah nevermind, i think i figured it out, the dwarfs are just leaving the buckets at the cistern after dumping the water and it seems they will only take an empty bucket from the stockpile, guess i should make a small bucket stockpile near the cistern

[Geofferic]

That's what I do and I keep about double the number of buckets I need on hand.  That way while one dwarf is retrieving a bucket for the stockpile, there's still one in the stockpile for a filling dwarf.

[Sean Mirrsen]

A better way is to forbid buckets at all relevant stockpiles. That way, discarded buckets will still be available, and very probably used right after being dropped. There is the problem of them lying about the fort afterwards, but you could just set a dedicated pile for them later.