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[Linkeron]

So, I've literally just started on my first megaproject, and it involves LOTS of digging/channeling, and I was wondering if it would be possible to assign backpacks and waterskins to workers in a future version, if you can't already do that without drafting them, I mean.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

You have to put them in the military, but that doesn't mean they have to fight!  Just give them a squad, always leave them off duty, and give them no barracks in which to train, and it'll be just as if they were civilians with flasks.

[robertheinrich]

Thatīs fine for the starting phase of a project... but if you tell them to always have some food and water/any drink in their packs all the time they will go back and restock. I use small stockpiles all over the place, the workers will usually go back to the nearest pile they can find and sleep on the floor if too far away from their bed.

[Sutremaine]

They take up to three individual stacks of food for their backpacks, but only ever one stack of three for their waterskins. This difference means that a 'fill backpack' job will be generated every time a dwarf eats from a backpack, but a 'fill waterskin' job will be generated every third time a dwarf drinks from a waterskin.

[slothen]

i suppose if dwarves are never on active duty then they won't drop claimed backpack-food on the ground.  However you might just look into setting up mini-dormitories and booze stockpiles near the worksite.

[Flying Dice]

i suppose if dwarves are never on active duty then they won't drop claimed backpack-food on the ground.  However you might just look into setting up mini-dormitories and booze stockpiles near the worksite.

Much easier this way.