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[EpsilonSigma]

So yeah, I've got an inaccessible item which is now being spammed across my reports. I don't know where it is and what it is, so can't do much about it.

Is there any way to locate the item myself, or a way to find out what the dwarves believe are blocking the item?

[Loud Whispers]

Forbid everything. Unforbid everything. If that doesn't work, kill the Dwarf.

[rawrcakes]

I've had the same problem with a massively injured dwarf, after he was done being treated in the hospital. Didn't get to fix it, as I rather put him out in the woods to die to an ambush to stop the spam.

Of course, his friends didn't like that very much.

[MagmaMcFry]

Try exploring the caverns you've breached already. After a while, the announcements will stop, because then you've found the dead body (the result of a fight between an underground cave civilization and some underground wildlife).

[EpsilonSigma]

Firstly, it's about 5 of my dwarves, two of which are legendary miners who ignore my request to stop hauling things around even if I use Dwarf Therapist.

I've searched the cavern for everything, build stairs down into a chasm, and found nothing. I had a fight with around 14 crundles, but I only sustained a broken arm and some light bruising, and all the crundles were taken to the surface pretty much immediately.

Forbidding things worked, but when I allowed the again, they just went back to error messages.

One thing I did notice though was stone on a down stairway (D -> J), the result of blocking a forbidden beast from attacking my dining hall. There's so much stone around that I have no idea if it might just be that!

[Urist Da Vinci]

1. What is the exact message (you can copy it from the gamelog text file)?

2. I had something like this happen when I put a dwarf in a burrow. He kept trying to haul an item that was outside the burrow, and then cancelling because it was inaccessible (to him only).

[Garath]

if you use burrows, a dwarf may have had a drink but can't find a place in the burrow to get rid of the barrel/pot

or just in any case that a dwarf carries a thing and can't see where to deposit in the burrow

[EpsilonSigma]

I do have 2 burrows, but one is ready for emergency evacuation and the other is simply a marker to switch down the 91 Z-Levels to my cavern network thing. I have not assigned anyone to them.

Here an extract from the gamelog.txt:
Solon Thortithzulban, Metalsmith cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
The weather has cleared.
Solon Thortithzulban, Metalsmith cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
Nomal Sibrekneb‚l, militia captain cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
x2
B‰mbul Gebonol, Miner cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
Nomal Sibrekneb‚l, militia captain cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
x2
Kulet Logemlisat, Peasant cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
Kulet Logemlisat, Peasant cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
x2
Aban Tekkudl–rit, militia commander cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
Vucar Mosuszoz, sheriff cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
Aban Tekkudl–rit, militia commander cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
x2
—shrir Zulbankikrost, Miner cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
x2
Oddom SokanzuntŒr, Miner cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
Aban Tekkudl–rit, militia commander cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
x2
Tun Ardes—shrir, Miner cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
x2
Oddom SokanzuntŒr, Miner cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
Sarvesh OkolŠrith, Stoneworker cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
Sarvesh OkolŠrith, Stoneworker cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.
x2
Udil Onol‹lon, broker cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Item inaccessible.

As you can see it's fairly repetitive, and includes a fair few dwarves. The problem is that Item isn't defined anywhere.

[EpsilonSigma]

Okay, I managed to get a peek at the job list before the dwarves cancelled the task:
"Refuse Stockpile #17"

That narrowed it down a little, and then I saw this:

That is my goblin and other enemy drowning mechanism, which appears to have a couple of rotten dingoes and a badger in it, one stuck in the floodgate so it won't close. The dwarves identify the fact that the water is 7/7, and so won't pass through the door since they're not good enough swimmers, and it you look at the right hand image part it's attached to a river, which I can't block.

Any ideas? :S

[Callista]

Forbid the corpses to stop the spam; then drain the area as you normally would and repair the floodgates.

[EpsilonSigma]

Draining the area would work since I have a sizeable area of soil below where it just evaporates away. However, that relies on a finite source of water in the system (ie floodgate closed).

[MagmaMcFry]

I'm wondering why that gives error spam. Normally this message only occurs when items can path to a dwarf but not vice versa, and the only reasons for this I  can think of are burrows, unrevealed tiles, or (assumably) a missing [CANOPENDOORS] tag. And there are explicit code-arounds for burrows. Also the water can't be the reason, because my axedwarves launch unforbidden body parts into my pools all the time and it doesn't generate spam.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Draining the area would work since I have a sizeable area of soil below where it just evaporates away. However, that relies on a finite source of water in the system (ie floodgate closed).

If you channel a hole in the floor from below, you could get enough drainage to suck the badger out of the floodgate and permit closing.

[EpsilonSigma]

An additional floodgate later I've managed to make a wall into the side of the floodgate into a small room underneath, which did indeed suck out the badger, as well as 3 dingoes and some forgotten beast blood.

All working again now! Thanks for the help everyone