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[GameHat]

Does anyone have a good method to force dwarves to place barrels in food stockpiles more quickly?

I have SCORES of barrels, but the idiot dwarves keeps stacking harvested crops 1 high, quickly filling up my food stockpile.  THEN they don't harvest, since technically the stockpile is full.  This is frustrating.

I have plenty of barrels, like I said.

I know how min/max barrels work on stockpiles, that's not the issue.

I have ZERO reserved barrels, that's not the issue.

How can I coax my dwarves into consolidating food stockpiles into barrels more quickly?

[Freddybear]

Do you allow empty barrels to be stocked in your food stockpiles?

Change settings on the food pile, enable Furniture, block all, then select barrels under type and wood under materials.

[Fedor]

As I understand it, dwarves will add only one empty barrel to a stockpile at a time.  So try turning your single stockpile into several.

[kuro_suna]

build a kitchen and make some lavish meals, in addition to happiness this allows you to combine 4 food stacks into one, just make sure you have spare seeds

[Freddybear]

quote: ...dwarves will add only one empty barrel to a stockpile at a time.

That is true if you don't allow barrels as "furniture" in the settings.