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whiterook6

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Help with Rotting Remains
« on: May 09, 2009, 04:56:16 pm »
IS there an option or something I need to enable to get my dwarves to remove garbage and rotting vermin from the fortress and put it in the refuse pile I made outside? The pile is empty and there are dead vermin from my cat and no one's moving it, even though everyone still has garbage hauling and cleaning skills enabled.
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Argonnek

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Re: Help with Rotting Remains
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2009, 05:12:42 pm »
Go to the <o>ptions, <r>efuse, then hit <k> to tell them to dump "Other," which includes rotting vermin remains and chunks
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whiterook6

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Re: Help with Rotting Remains
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2009, 05:16:12 pm »
thanks
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Lesconrads

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Re: Help with Rotting Remains
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2009, 02:46:14 am »
It is kind of problematic to leave every labour enabled on everyone. It's better to have some dedicated waste-haulers so they can NOT be occupied by anything but other refuse-hauling jobs (which can also be a pain in the rear, when you are dumping bazilions of stones -_-)
I am not sure about the explanation, but i'll try.
Dwarfs don't chose their jobs, the jobs chose their dwarfs! That's a problem, when the dorf has something time-consuming to do. The job is marked as "will be done soon", but Urist is walking through 25z and 500 tiles to get THAT SOCK ASAP...
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Albedo

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Re: Help with Rotting Remains
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2009, 03:12:44 am »
Nothing is more irritating than watching your miner walk back from that rich vein across the map to dump a cockroach, then walk back almost to the vein, then go on break, then walk almost back, then get a drink, then walk almost back, then come back to place a door...

Decide which dwarfs will "orbit" around your central area.  Your Grower, maybe your Brewer and Mechanic - whatever - they're your gophers.  Everyone else gets the gopher jobs turned off.

The trick is to have enough gophers.
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