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[Derakon]

After a siege, I go through and mark all of the goblin gear either for melting or dumping. However, I frequently find that some of the narrow clothing gets stashed in my finished goods stockpile (which has no available toggle for "usable"/"unusable") before getting dumped. Dwarves should not stash dumped gear; they should dump it.

Additionally, it'd be nice if finished-goods stockpiles could be marked to not accumulate goblin clothing.

[Exponent]

Is it possible that some of the dwarves already had the "Store item in stockpile" job when you marked the item for dumping?  If this was the situation, then I suppose you're asking for the following:  Marking an item for dumping should check if any job is associated with that item.  If so, kill the job if it isn't a dump job.  Or at least, kill the job if it is merely a haul job.  (If someone is already attempting to acquire it for some other purpose, then perhaps that should get priority over dumping.  Or perhaps not; I wouldn't know what would be preferable, and if that preference would be shared by the majority of players.)

[Derakon]

It's entirely possible that I marked them for dumping after they had already been marked to take to the stockpile, since stockpile jobs, to my knowledge, can be generated at any time and I only got around to dumping things once I was sure the siege was over. So yes, I'm saying that if a dwarf gets a "move to stockpile" job, then they should cancel it if the item is marked for dumping.

[ein Syndication]

Could also be that you have dwarves set to ignore refuse outside so they ignored the dump order 'til they took it in.

[Derakon]

quote:Originally posted by ein Syndication:
<STRONG>Could also be that you have dwarves set to ignore refuse outside so they ignored the dump order 'til they took it in.</STRONG>

Refuse is distinct from dumping; these are perfectly good items that I just don't want. I certainly have seen them pick up items off the goblin corpses and haul them directly to the garbage pit (actually a shaft to the magma pipe), so that's not the problem.

[Nesoo]

Syndication is right about the refuse order, however. I thought that Toady had disabled dumping of rocks once when I upgraded (back in the .33's), because they weren't being hauled away (I had done some channeling or something, so they were outside). Once I realized that ignore outside refuse was turned on, and toggled it, away went the rocks.

But, yes, if they're dumping other outdoor items, that's not the problem.