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[butcherer]

Hi there,
I'm new to this game, so there is probably a simple solution to my problem, but I couldn't find the answer by searching this forum (or I didn't have enough patience to search):

I just started a new world, dug up some space inside a hill, deconstructed the wagon, set up a huge stockpile inside that accepts everything, and as my dwarfs started moving stuff inside, I noticed that they will not touch the food and drink barrels, nor will they move the seed bags. The stockpile is set to use max barrels, it is set to accept food, the number of reserved barrels is 0, but the dwarfs are just standing there doing nothing.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[Joshua IX]

I've been having the exact same problem - I have no idea why. One of my .21 forts was fine at moving them, but my newest is having this issue...

[Sphalerite]

Check your Orders screen to make sure you didn't disable gathering of food by accident.

[rojiru]

When you set up the custom stockpile the "use barrels" option you're talking about is actually restricting the use of barrels up to the number you have set, not the number you want it to use. Set the numbers back to zero and you should be fine.

[butcherer]

Now I have 2 stockpiles, one set to use 0 barrels, the other 50. Neither one is convincing my workers to move the barrels still outside. Also, as I said, the global number of reserved barrels is 0.

I also checked the orders screen, gather food is not disabled.

[Newbunkle]

I've never seen this, but pure guesswork leads me to suggest checking that you haven't forbidden the items by mistake.

Check to see if the wagon is forbidden as well. I know you can forbid the use of workshops like that, but I don't know if that affects the collection of items from the workshop. You can always try deconstructing the wagon to see if it frees up the items, but remember to make a new meeting area using a zone or table.

Edit: D'oh. Reading fail.

Edit: Also, do dwarves have food hauling enabled individually?

[butcherer]

The items are not forbidden, and all dwarfs have hauling enabled.

As time passed I noticed that once a barrel was freed (they ate all the food inside it), they moved it to one of the stockpiles, then they moved two seed bags inside it (that's the limit maybe?).

Edit: I just noticed that they also forgot to move the battle axe I embarked with. So it's filled barrels, seed bags and a battle axe that they are ignoring.

[Ze Spy]

Just place Food stockpiles, there's this little glitch in DF2011 that Prevents Custom stockpiles from registering food and alcohol barrels as food

[butcherer]

Thank you, after placing a food stockpile it all worked. I did read about it earlier, but it didn't work because I was doing it all wrong: I had created a custom stockpile that only accepted food, instead of making a food stockpile from the start.

Thanks all for the quick answers, you guys are great.