My animals are not going into pastures. When I designate an area as a pasture my animals are not leaving my dining area and are starving to death.
Press
i and move the cursor to the pasture zone. Then press
N to start assigning animals to the pasture.
I have a TON of wood that is not being gathered. It is across a river and there is a bridge to go across, but none of my dwarfs are gathering anything. They are not forbidden. I have plenty of idle ones.
1) Burrows
2) Physical access to the wood and to the stockpile
3) Empty tiles in the stockpile
4) Stockpile should be set to accept all the relevant types of wood (this is on by default, but it could have been toggled off)
5) Stockpile should accept from anywhere, not just from links (very easy to hit
a by mistake)
6) There might be a global order for gathering wood (from the
o menu)
7) Workers must have wood hauling enabled
Probably more things that I can't think of right now....
There are barrels in my refuse stock pile and I have no clue why. As far as I can tell there is no desination for the zone any such item. Could the wood problem be related?
If you don't have a stockpile that wants the barrels right now, they'll just sit wherever they happen to be. If a dwarf happened to drop a barrel there for whatever reason (perhaps he was drinking from it and emptied it), it'll stay there until needed.
Also I am curious how to post my region file. I read somewhere you can do that but I am not sure how to go about this.
Inside
data/save/ you have directories named
region1,
region2 and so on (one for each world you have generated). Archive/compress that directory using whatever software you prefer, and upload it wherever you like (your own personal web site, or dropbox, or
DFFD). Make sure it can be extracted with the same directory structure that it has on your disk now. In modern archive software this is generally the default, but don't use any options that "flatten" the hierarchy into a single directory.