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[Mr. Palau]

So for some reason my dwarves are not moving my logs to the carpenter's shop. I have a stockpile and everythhing. why are the logs not moving?

In additon my dwarves are not moving coke and iron out of the smelters to the stockpiles. Why?

[Kohmelo]

Check your "O" orders "dwarves gather wood" is it on? had couple of times the same proplem because i checked it negative by accident when checking refuse orders...

[Hurkyl]

They could be busy doing other things. Do you have any idlers (with hauling turned on)?

[Kohmelo]

There is also something hairy about if you order stockpiles to give/take from workshops... Tried it once... I will not try it twice cause it gave a huge work load with stockpiles as every workshop needed to put on those give/take lists.

[Mr. Palau]

So yeah, I had all dwarves gather wood on, no burrows, 20 idlers, all, or almost all, with hauling on, and yet they refused to touch the logs.

[Laurin]

Maybe you have accidently set the stockpile to accept from links only? (It's easily done by (q) and (a) ...)

Another possibility is disconnected stairs/ramps so that your dwarves can't reach the floor with the wood or the stockpile.

[knutor]

Weight.

Those 20 idlers may be creampuffs, low STR.  Have wheelbarrows, assigned to all those stockpiles, and make lots more wheelbarrows.  A fortress, can never have too many tools.

In 34.11, wheelbarrow are the new bucket.

[Gobolinno]

If anyone makes wheelbarrows, automatically the dwarves will start to use them or they must be commanded somehow to use them?
(sorry too for asking this question here)

[Quietust]

Weight.

Those 20 idlers may be creampuffs, low STR.  Have wheelbarrows, assigned to all those stockpiles, and make lots more wheelbarrows.  A fortress, can never have too many tools.

In 34.11, wheelbarrow are the new bucket.

Weight will not prevent a dwarf from hauling something - it'll just cause the hauling to take a very long time. In fact, from what I recall, assigning wheelbarrows to a stockpile can slow down hauling, since a stockpile with even a single wheelbarrow assigned will force all of its hauling jobs to use wheelbarrows, reducing it to 1-3 jobs at a time (one per wheelbarrow) instead of one per stockpile square or available hauler.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Wait, why were buckets the old wheelbarrow?

[brucemo]

Wheelbarrows are not the answer here.  You don't need them to move logs.

The OP has either done q-a over the stockpile or o-w in general preferences.  Since the second has been ruled out, it's probably the first.

There are bugs in this game, but it's rarely true that stuff that is supposed to work just simply stops working.  If your dwarfs are standing around idle, while there is an empty log stockpile somewhere, and a bunch of logs on the ground somewhere, they've either been told not to gather logs, told not to gather them in this stockpile, told not to go outside to get the logs, or there is no physical path to the logs or stockpile.

[Triaxx2]

Simple way to check. Setup a small 2x2 stockpile accepting wood.

Also check to see that hauling is actually turned on. Sounds silly, but I've done it before.

[Sutremaine]

Check the pathing. You can do this by trying to build a bridge or construction and examining the list of available building materials (use the expanded list if necessary. The displayed distances give you a rough idea of how far the pathing extends from that one spot), as only pathable items will show on the list. For an obvious example, if you accidentally cut off the path between surface and fortress and logs from the outside aren't being hauled in, the building list near the unhauled logs will show mostly or entirely wood and the building list near the fortress's wood stockpile will show whatever wood is in the stockpile plus all the stone and metal in the fortress. Most fortresses will have their metal bar supply in one area, so that's a set of materials you can look out for in the list. You can also use furniture or any other buildable item instead of construction items.

Have you been using the 'remove ramps / up stairs' designation lately?

[Mr. Palau]

It was the wheel barrow thing.

stockpile accepted from everywhere and pathing was ok.