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[NTJedi]

I searched the forums yet no luck.  How do I separate the good stones(petrified wood) from the bad stones(clay stones)?  Same question for other items such as metal bars.

Thanks

[Yaotzin]

Stockpiles to separate by area, and you can turn off their usage in the z-stones screen. No way to force a certain workshop to use a certain stone, sadly. They almost certainly will if it's next to them though, so stockpiles usually work.

[Prologue]

You can forbid the materials, or limit the dwarf in a burrow.

[Loud Whispers]

Stockpiles to separate by area, and you can turn off their usage in the z-stones screen. No way to force a certain workshop to use a certain stone, sadly. They almost certainly will if it's next to them though, so stockpiles usually work.

Dorfs will take from the closest item, taking into account z lvls.

So they will go on a pilgrimage to grab some mudstone even if there's obsidian 3 tiles away, if the mudstone is just 1z lvl below them.

[i2amroy]

You can take advantage of this by placing stockpiles directly below the workshops that they are for rather then next to them. Also note that sometimes dwarves will grab the nearest stone to where they accepted the task, which is not always the same as the one nearest to the workshop.

Also if you really want to be OCD about it I believe that DF Hack has a utility that can edit work orders to only accept particular materials (such as only making those mugs out of obsidian.)