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[albatross]

Oh how I wish that dorfs would utilize pack mules (animals) when picking up loot after a goblin invasion
It's total bollocks that each dorf is only allowed to carry one item at a time from the battlefield. It is the bane of any minimal-crew fortress.
I demand a new job designation - item hauler.
An item hauler dwarf would grab a bin or a mule or a horse and he'd collect designated piles of random items, 10 or more at a time, and then deliver each item in its rightful stockpile.
I'm aware of the practice of placing strategic temporary stockpiles near the battlefields. This is impractical, and you know it.
I can already envision a stubborn mule refusing to move once Urist has loaded the animal with items.
Or how an ill-tempered pack horse would run away from Urist, falling down into a river, drowning, taking all the loot along to the bottom of the river.
Fun, no?

Is this something that's been requested dozens of times before?

[Footkerchief]

This is the crux of Improved Hauling, #1 item on Eternal Suggestion Voting.  As such it's reached the dev page:

Hauling Improvements
    * Being able to haul multiple small objects
    * Having multiple dwarves involved with item hauling for a job
    * Being able to move multiple objects with roughly the same destination at once
    * Wheelbarrows to haul more objects than can be carried
    * Minecarts
          o Wooden, stone-carved and metal tracks
          o Can be filled like stockpiles and moved between destinations
    * Work animals to tow carts and haul objects

[Meph]

You could use the Wheelbarrow mod. It allows you to build loading and unloading stations, and the dwarf collects 5 items, puts them in the loading station and carries them AS ONE to the unloading station.

I use it in my mod as well, with 10 items per go. Other mods use it as well, it is quite common place.

[albatross]

I am speechless. And embarrassed. And grateful.