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[lemmiwinks]

My Still just won't recognise my empty barrels and pots. The barrels and pots sat under my workshops for ages, then I tried putting them into their own stock pile thinking maybe that was it, bit that hasn't worked either. I've gone through every stock pile I have and made sure Max Barrels is on 0, except for my Drink (Plant) stockpile -  which I've tried setting to every number between 1 and 15.

I've only had this issue on my two most recent fortresses.. I am completely lost on this.

[sal880612m]

I am not positive of your situation but I do know that if you have set your still up to take from a Plant/Plant(Alcohol) stockpile you also have to set it up to take from a furniture stockpile that has empty barrels/jars. Also sometimes items are unavailable while in motion ie, available in the carpenter's workshop and a furniture stockpile but not available when being moved to furniture stockpile.

[lemmiwinks]

i havent manually set it up to take from anything, do I do that on the stockpile?

[Garath]

if you've set any link to the still, either remove that link or add another link to a stockpile with barrels/rock pots. If your pots/barrels arn't moving, No clue. Maybe the workshop is set to take/give from/to a stockpile too? That needs to be resolved for you I'd guess

[greycat]

Unfortunately, from the Still, you can't determine whether any stockpiles are set to "Give" to the Still.  That setting is only visible on the stockpiles.  So you would have to check every single stockpile in the entire fortress to see whether any of them Give to that Still.

It might be simpler to deconstruct and rebuild the Still.  I think that should clear any links.

Personally, I set up my Still with its own dedicated barrel and plant stockpiles, which Give to it.  (The barrel stockpile also takes large pots, and takes from anywhere; the plant stockpile takes brewable plants only, allows barrels, and takes (only) from my primary plant stockpile, which in turn does NOT allow barrels, but takes from anywhere.) This means my brewer has to wait for someone to bring barrels (and plants) to those stockpiles before he can ply his craft, but it pays off by saving a massive amount of walking-around time for the brewer in between brewing jobs.