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[Robsoie]

In 34.11 i ran into unpleasant situations in which my marksdwarves had lots of bolts in my ammo stockpiles, but once they were running out of  their starting bolts from their quiver they never went to refill them despite hundred of new bolts were waiting for them in the stockpile :
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=133302.0

I found out that the problem was that my bolts were inside of bins, it was apparently a know nasty bug, it then led me to not have made a single bin since 34.11 and through all my 40.0x

But then my question : is it still needed to NOT make any bins to avoid this bad bug, or is the problem fixed in 40.0x ?

[greycat]

I switched to a 6-stockpile, 3-minecart quantum configuration for my armory.  I make three 2x2 stockpiles -- one for armor, one for weapons, and one for ammo.  These take from anywhere, and disallow bins.  I also disallow unusable weapons & armor, and trap components.  I make three minecart track stops, set to dump appropriately.  I make three 1x1 stockpiles for them to dump into.  These disallow bins, take from links only, and have no links.

It takes up a 4x6 area the way I do it.

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#11..#
#11M4#
#22...
#22M5#
#33..#
#33M6#
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I put the ammo stockpiles in the middle, because they will be used most often.

[Melting Sky]

As far as I know this bug has not been fixed and the problem with dwarves dragging around 1000lb bins of goods to pick up a 6 ounce item resulting in endless job cancellations has been further compounded by the fact that dwarves seem to haul really heavy items even more slowly than before.

[Rafatio]

You don't have to avoid bins altogether, not allowing them in any ammo piles is enough, I haven't ever seen them ignore those orders and thats not for a lack of bins in my fort.

[Robsoie]

Thanks, looks like i'll just continue to not allowing any bins in my ammo stockpile.