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[bloop_bleep]

Hello, I have a problem. I have a fortress with a still to make booze for my obese slackers dwarves. Somehow, though, I get cancellation spam saying "Urist McBrewer cancels Brew Drink from Plant: Needs empty food storage item." I have set the "Reserved Barrels" setting to 30 in the stockpile menu. (And yes, I did create a lot of barrels after I did that, so the problem can't be that all the barrels were already reserved for something else.) Help?

[StagnantSoul]

Any burrows set up that'd make them not able to get to said barrels?

[bloop_bleep]

No. None of my brewers are assigned to burrows, nor do any of the stockpiles intersect with a burrow.

[StagnantSoul]

Try making stone pots, that's usually what I do in such a situation.

[Thisfox]

- Check that there aren't any locked doors between barrel storage area and still.
- Also, check there aren't any "give/take from stockpile" commands getting in the way.
- Make stone pots, see if that helps them to solve the problem that way.
- You could try making barrels from a different type of wood. If there are reserved barrels for another purpose as well as the still, perhaps that reserve is getting them BEFORE the still reserve fills. I've never done the reserve barrels thing, but I seem to remember someone telling me it was buggy.
- Try turning off the barrel reserve function entirely.
- Check the barrels aren't {forbidden}....

Oh, and dig a well. If all else fails, at least they can drink.... water.... <shudder>.

[StagnantSoul]

- Check that there aren't any locked doors between barrel storage area and still.
- Also, check there aren't any "give/take from stockpile" commands getting in the way.
- Make stone pots, see if that helps them to solve the problem that way.
- You could try making barrels from a different type of wood. If there are reserved barrels for another purpose as well as the still, perhaps that reserve is getting them BEFORE the still reserve fills. I've never done the reserve barrels thing, but I seem to remember someone telling me it was buggy.
- Try turning off the barrel reserve function entirely.
- Check the barrels aren't {forbidden}....

Oh, and dig a well. If all else fails, at least they can drink.... water.... <shudder>.

Better than drinking muddy water with their hands out of a pool. My dorfs were forced to do that for a few weeks while kea's flew around with my entire stockpile of dwarven wine.

[Nilbert]

If ThisFox's suggestions don't work, check to make sure that Urist McBrewer really isn't an elf wearing a fake beard.

To check this, I have found that a retracting bridge and magma works well.

[bloop_bleep]

Precisely! I position the suspect on a raising bridge surrounded by stone. I also place a bucket of magma on the stone right next to the bridge. Any legitimate dorf will immediately run off the bridge for the magma so he can stumble into it when fighting goblins, so when I retract the bridge, any impostors will be flung off the bridge! It's genius!

Also, I might have found the problem. I have a bunch of raw fish barrels that my fishers bring home. I don't have a fishery workshop yet, though, so can the fish barrels actually be reserved, leaving no room for the booze?

[Rethi-Eli]

While I'm loath to suggest this, if worst comes to worst and the problem continues, you may find it necessary to remove the [ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT] tag from dwarves under the creature_standard.txt in your world's raws. Of course, what's the point if playing DF if there is no Dwarven Wine?

[Nilbert]

...you may find it necessary to remove the [ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT] tag from dwarves under the creature_standard.txt in your world's raws...

Based on this statement Rethi-Eli that I have taken out of context, I am concerned that indeed you ARE an elf spy.

[Rethi-Eli]

...you may find it necessary to remove the [ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT] tag from dwarves under the creature_standard.txt in your world's raws...

Based on this statement Rethi-Eli that I have taken out of context, I am concerned that indeed you ARE an elf spy.

...

shit

[Thisfox]

...you may find it necessary to remove the [ALCOHOL_DEPENDENT] tag from dwarves under the creature_standard.txt in your world's raws...

Based on this statement Rethi-Eli that I have taken out of context, I am concerned that indeed you ARE an elf spy.

...

shit

[muldrake]

Hello, I have a problem. I have a fortress with a still to make booze for my obese slackers dwarves. Somehow, though, I get cancellation spam saying "Urist McBrewer cancels Brew Drink from Plant: Needs empty food storage item." I have set the "Reserved Barrels" setting to 30 in the stockpile menu. (And yes, I did create a lot of barrels after I did that, so the problem can't be that all the barrels were already reserved for something else.) Help?

No matter what the problem is, it's always stockpiles somehow.  Get rid of all of them.

Also I'm sure you have SOME containers, they just have stuff in them.  Make sure it's available for cooking and possibly, that will free up some.

[FantasticDorf]

If you have a stockpile of booze linked directly to the still (to take from the still & deliver elsewhere) you require all of the stockpile links to be ready.

So basically here is your checklist.

> Farmers harvesting plump helmets & delivering to a stockpile, a proficient farmer can pick up 4/5 at once compared to a dabbling farmer who can only pick up 1.

• A stonecrafter/carpenter making food holding items (barrels/pots) that are not #10. queued up to store food or other objects in use waiting to be hauled# and are sitting peacefully in a stockpile, the stockpile which can be together with your furniture or not must be connected directly to the still as a empty food storage item and the still will ONLY use those containers for the still's reactions.
  
  > A link to your seed stockpile to take the seeds away from the still when you're done automatically so they can go back into the crop growing.