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[Rafe]

I have a stockpile with drinks and periodically the dwarves empty them by drinking the contents. The problem is the barrels stay in this stockpile EMPTY and the brewer refuses to use them to brew new drinks. It's sorta a catch 22 because the drink stockpile has the barrel allowance set to the maximum plots, this allows barrels to be placed in the stockpile but once they are empty i cannot get rid of them because the stockpile demands a certain number of barrels.

Unless i micromanage the stockpile, resetting this allotment back and forth, i don't see a solution. Automation is the goal but i dont' see how i can get rid of the empty barrels and maintain teh benefit of a stockpile full of barrels?

[Garath]

is the still restricted to taking from somewhere, or the stockpile restricted to giving to somewhere that is not the still?

[Neckbeard]

Also, have you set a number of barrels to be reserved in the placing stockpiles screen?

Not the fortress status one but the one you get by press p for the stockpiles command.

[Rafe]

is the still restricted to taking from somewhere, or the stockpile restricted to giving to somewhere that is not the still?

no other then a burrows overlapping my entire base

Also, have you set a number of barrels to be reserved in the placing stockpiles screen?

Not the fortress status one but the one you get by press p for the stockpiles command.

You mean by pressing the r and e keys to increase and decrease reserves just like c and v for bins? yes i MAX out reserve barrels for the drink stockpile. This is infact the problem i need to max it out to have barrels present but doing so forces empty barrels to stay.

[Neckbeard]

is the still restricted to taking from somewhere, or the stockpile restricted to giving to somewhere that is not the still?

no other then a burrows overlapping my entire base

Also, have you set a number of barrels to be reserved in the placing stockpiles screen?

Not the fortress status one but the one you get by press p for the stockpiles command.

You mean by pressing the r and e keys to increase and decrease reserves just like c and v for bins? yes i MAX out reserve barrels for the drink stockpile. This is infact the problem i need to max it out to have barrels present but doing so forces empty barrels to stay.

No, I mean the command for placing stockpiles.  There should be a few numbers down there for reserved bins and reserved barrels that are reserved for actual use fortress wide.  Most commonly barrels for brewing, but the game isn't specific in this case.  You increase and decrease the reserved barrels count via */ keys.