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[paxy97]

First of all I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong forum, please move this topic if so.

I have the to all of you known problem with the "Can't find plump helmet spawn" spam, that's caused when a dwarf picks up the whole barrel with seeds. If found a few solutions, but I figured why not like this:
Change the capacity of a barrel to maybe 20 seeds, so that two dwarfs can pick up two barrels that aren't heavy and both of them are happy because the can plant at the same time. Now, I've been googling for a solution, but couldn't find it. So I decided to go through a few RAW files, but couldn't find it either. Does anybody know if it is even possible? I'm willing to do anything necessary

Thanks in advance

[Grim Portent]

I think barrels and pots are currently hardcoded. If they are then they're pretty much beyond modding.

[scamtank]

Barrels are old and hardcoded. Large pots aren't.

Just store your seeds without barrels.

[paxy97]

Thanks

[Quietust]

The problem is that seeds are not stored directly in barrels or pots - they are only stored in bags (where one bag can hold 300 seeds, which is beyond the maximum number you can normally accumulate before plants stop producing them when eaten/processed), and those bags are what get stored in barrels.

[paxy97]

The problem is that seeds are not stored directly in barrels or pots - they are only stored in bags (where one bag can hold 300 seeds, which is beyond the maximum number you can normally accumulate before plants stop producing them when eaten/processed), and those bags are what get stored in barrels.

Oh, ok I get it now, but is it then possible to change the bag cap or is it the same as with barrels and pots?

[Wannabehero]

bag cap cannot be set on barrels/pots.

Just have your seed stockpile set to no barrels.

[Veylon]

If we're going to imagine theoretical solutions to this problem, why not larger seeds? Somewhere in the bowels of the compiled code, there is a integer describing how big a seed is. One possibility is that there's a hard-coded number of seeds per bag (100). The other is that is the capacity of the bag (3000) divided by 100 (seeds/bag), which gives us 30 as the size of the seed. Alternatively, the cap on the maximum number of seeds per type (200) could be increased, which boosts the number of bags/barrels holding them, which means it's less likely that all of them are in use at once.

Options also exist in d_init.txt to make dwarves sloppier about keeping all the seeds of one kind together.

[Quietust]

It would be fairly trivial to write a DFHack plugin which makes seeds larger. Of course, it will also make them heavier, since there is only one "volume" property (prior to 0.34.07, there were two - a "net volume" for determining weight, and a "gross volume" for determining how much storage capacity it uses up).