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[bobboy555]

So, I was busy mining out a vein of bituminous coal when an elven caravan arrives. A few seconds later my game locks up and drops to 20 or so FPS. I check the units screen and it seems all of my dwarves who aren't busy, doctors, or in the military are hauling to the hospital. Odd. I look back at the meeting zone and all the dwarves have run off towards the elven caravan. They return to the hospital with a whole buttload of cloth. And they weren't done yet. When the caravan arrived they were still taking cloth from it. I hadn't traded anything, I just got a whole tonne of cloth free. I'm running DF with Masterwork, in case this helps identify the bug, if it is a bug at all.

[Akura]

Known bug. Hospital zones do not respect ownership or stockpile settings of cloth or other medical items. Therefore, people will take them to the hospital, even if it means stealing it right from the caravan. Or the craftsdwarf workshop responsible for adamantine thread extraction.

[Telgin]

I could have sworn this was fixed.

Well, apparently not.  I think a typical workaround to this and similar hospital bugs is to use hospital stockpiles instead of putting coffers in them.  The capacity of the stockpile is respected properly, and dwarves will still use the contents properly.

[martinuzz]

I've found that it only overstocks up to a certain amount. With micromanagement you can prevent cloth theft.
When I designate my hospital, I set all stock to zero at first. Then I build 2 chests, and order a few threads to be stocked. Usually about 5 times as much is stored, then it stops. When it stops, I build 2 more chests, and order some cloth to be stored. The same as with threads, it overstocks a bit, then stops. Note that no more threads are being brought, only cloth.
I repeat these steps for all hospital items, and end up with a hospital stocked with all needed items, and no more new 'bring item to hospital' jobs being generated. This means, no theft either.

I haven't noticed any hospital hoarding after a patient or two were treated.

I do think, that if ever stock levels of any particular item fall below the set treshold, hoarding will begin again. So, if you have a lot of dwarves in the hospital, you could reduce all needed items to zero again, and restock via the method described above, after the patients have been treated.

[Shash The Stampede]

I view this as more of a feature than a bug. I wish they'd steal other stuff based on what the fort needs.

[Deon]

It's a bug. You can do it normally which would make the traders eventually leave, however this behaviour does not trigger a reaction.

[MrAnderson]

afaik someone mentioned the reason a few days (month? years?) back:
when you build a coffer in your hospital, ALL dwarves see "hey, the hospital is empty, let's fill it" and grab cloth/thread/whatnot to fill it. So you get 1 cloth/thread/whatever per dwarf in your hospital, until the limit is met or the chest is full.
Solution for toady would be to only allow 1 "fill hospital coffer/chest" job or for us ordinary people the solution presented by martinuzz is the best