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Quetz

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Dumping Items
« on: June 13, 2008, 07:47:00 pm »
I can't figure out how to dump garbage items. I have designated a garbage dump next to a channel with lava and selected some rotten clothes and other random items with D. What am I doing wrong? Some of this stuff has been designated for dumping for over an in game year.
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Run Comrades

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Re: Dumping Items
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2008, 08:55:00 pm »
As long as you have zoned a dump by hitting: "i", hit enter, enter, then activated the dump by hitting "g" your dwarves should be dumping away.

Also, make sure items you are trying to dump are not forbidden.

[ June 13, 2008: Message edited by: Run Comrades ]

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Quetz

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Re: Dumping Items
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2008, 11:27:00 pm »
None of the items i have are forbidden.
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Lord Dullard

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Re: Dumping Items
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2008, 11:31:00 pm »
A lot of the time, your dwarves won't want to dump clothes that you see strewn about on the ground randomly. This happens fairly often (especially in barracks or other areas where dwarves will be losing garments a lot). The reason behind this is, as close as I can figure, that the dwarves still consider these items to be 'owned' and therefore will not throw them away.
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Re: Dumping Items
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2008, 12:47:00 am »
I found out if i select the items from the stocks menu they are dumped, but if i just select them on the ground and choose dump they aren't touched.
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Re: Dumping Items
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2008, 12:27:17 pm »
I had this happen rather randomly in my last game, actually...got lots of animals off the elves in wooden cages, but had no use for the cages afterwards. Let the animals loose from the cages, then set them to be dumped and made a dump site beside a nearby magma pipe......and they wouldn't pick up the cages. I undesignated them and got rid of the dump site. A few goblin snatchers decided to crash the party when the humans were around. Set up a dump site by the magma again and got them to dump the goblin chunks that were lying around (and the roach/rat/whatever remains that were in the refuse pile while they were at it). Saw they were dumping those, so set them to dump the cages again and this time they did it :)

No idea why it didn't work the first time, though :(
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