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[Trekkin]

As of now, I've got a newly functioning metalworking industry churning out lead bins/barrels and a food stockpile still using imported wooden barrels. I'd like to effectively swap the lead barrels in and destroy the wooden ones.

1. is it possible to dump just a barrel or bin and save the contents?
2. Is it possible to tell from the stocks screen which are the imported containers and other items and which are fortress-made aside from examining them all individually?

Oops, wrong forum. My apologies.

[Derekristow]

As far as I know you have to go through each item individually.  To save the contents you could try mass dumping the stockpile, then individually undumping each bin/barrel, which should make the contents get dumped and not the containers.

Why do you want to get rid of the foreign bins?

[Dorf3000]

I'm 99% sure you can't dump liquids from a barrel, no matter what combination you try.  I was short of barrels for booze so I bought up all the barrels of blood from the caravan - had to crush it in the end as I couldn't get rid of the icky content.  I think you can dump prepared food out of barrels, but it might rot if it's not on a food stockpile for a while (haven't checked).  Bins should be no problem, and you can simply set a stockpile that doesn't accept bins in order to get the content out.

To answer the second point, imported goods have the name of the object surrounded by round brackets ().  If you decorate them, the brackets go away.