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[Rowanas]

I've checked the wiki, done a load of searches, but found nothing. Which stockpile holds floodgates? I need my obsidian floodgate placed NOW, but it was dismantled and my dwarves aren't moving it.

[durendal.mk3]

Hum, you're right. The wiki doesn't say.

It's a furniture stockpile, IIRC.

[Grendus]

I think they're considered furniture. That's usually where I find mine when they're not in use.

[Derakon]

Items don't need to be placed into stockpiles before they can be built. You can take them straight from the workshop, or unbuild them from their current locations and just leave them lying on the ground until they're needed.

However, if you do have an appropriate stockpile for the item with available space, then typically the item will get tasked to be taken to the stockpile as soon as it's dropped, and can't be used for anything else until that happens (you can't block a "move item to stockpile" job without removing the stockpile).

[Hellcar]

You can pause the game, forbid the tasked item in question, unforbid it, and then use it right away.
If you don't pause it might get retasked before you can use it.

[Albedo]

I think "food" needs to be stockpiled before it can be eaten, right? Maybe not, maybe it's just preferred that way.

[Rowanas]

I'm a numpty. I had a quick look in the stockpile alteration menu and found them, it's just that I had loads of people with the labour enabled, loads of free furniture stockpile space, and no-one moved it. It's all good now. Also, the wiki doesn't say anything about obsidian being a magma-proof stone, even though it is.

[Rvlion]

A stone is magma proof if you can open and close floodgates to controle magma flows by creating mechanisms of said stone, never bothered to check if they are in this fashion magma proof.

[DeathOfRats]

I think "food" needs to be stockpiled before it can be eaten, right? Maybe not, maybe it's just preferred that way.

I think it's just a preference thing, since I've had dwarves eating directly from the kitchen. Also, food rots if it's not in an stockpile.

[Untelligent]

Obsidian isn't a magma-proof stone. For the most part, magma won't melt anything unless it occupies the same tile, so your obsidian floodgate will be safe until you open it, at which point you're going to have a hard time closing it.

[Sizik]

And since obsidian is solid magma, it's not really magma-proof.