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[schlake]

In some forts, I see dwarves trundling around with wheelbarrows, hauling things quickly and easily.

In more forts no matter how many wheelbarrows I build, they sit ignored.

What is the magic thing I have to do to make each dwarf use a wheelbarrow?

[taptap]

Allow them (1-3) in the stockpile in question and have the relevant hauling labours enabled.

[schlake]

Oh.......

I've taken to skipping stockpiles because they are confusing.  But I do think the games where I have dwarves using wheelbarrows are games were I'd made stockpiles.

That kind of sucks.  What I want to have dwarves working in a masons shop use wheelbarrows to haul the stones over.  I suppose to do that I have to make a stockpile with stones and wheelbarrows in it and link it to the mason?

[Eldin00]

That should work, though the linking to the mason's shop is optional, and can slow down your masonry work if the mason is outpacing the stone haulers. Something like this:

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=WWW=
=WWW=
=WWW=
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= stockpile
W workshop

with wheelbarrows assigned to the stockpile, without links, should create a setup where haulers use wheelbarrows to bring stones to the stockpile, and and masons will almost always use a stone from the stockpile if there is one, but will still go elsewhere for stone if the stockpile is empty.

[taptap]

Oh.......

I've taken to skipping stockpiles because they are confusing.  But I do think the games where I have dwarves using wheelbarrows are games were I'd made stockpiles.

That kind of sucks.  What I want to have dwarves working in a masons shop use wheelbarrows to haul the stones over.  I suppose to do that I have to make a stockpile with stones and wheelbarrows in it and link it to the mason?

For me dwarf fortress is mainly a logistics game. Get used to stockpiles and stockpile links and maybe even advanced stockpiling methods and and ...

[Eldin00]

If the logistics part of the game isn't your thing, you can get away with a fairly simple stockpile setup, and ignore stockpile links altogether. Not saying that links and complicated setups are a bad thing, just that you can get a fair bit of benefit out of stockpiles even without them.

[arbarbonif]

I don't believe that dwarves use wheelbarrows to take things to workshops, I think that is just for putting things in the stockpile.  I usually do the "stockpile with link surrounding the workshop" theory, since otherwise dwarves seem to take the stone nearest to where they decide to take the job (i.e. in the depth of the mines), instead of closest to where they are going to do the job.

One other thing with wheelbarrows: if a stockpile has wheelbarrows assigned, dwarves will ONLY use wheelbarrows to move stuff to it (so you can only move as many items at once as the stockpile has wheelbarrows assigned)

[Albedo]

DFHack allows you to assign more than 3 wheelbarrows to a stockpile - handy in some cases.