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Apostolos

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Need help yet again
« on: January 26, 2015, 06:44:02 pm »

Sorry for all the questions, but I am kinda stuck on a dumping problem.  I have a 2x3 refuse pile inside (subterranean) room.  One of the tiles I turned into a 1x1 pit going down about 8 z levels and then marked that square as a 1x1 dump zone.  Next a yak pet following a dwarf around died from starvation since he was not pastured.  So.. I set the body to dump.  Nothing happened, so I took off the dump maker.  After a while a dwarf put him in the refuse pile one square down and right of the garbage chute.  I then labeled him for dumping but nothing happened.  The body just sat there until it rot and flooded the area with miasma.  What am I doing wrong?


I am also trying to open a caged turkey gobbler. For some reason I brought all hens on embark, so I bought one from the first trade caravan.  However I put the cage right beside a lever and it says there is nothing to open when I try to link up to a cage.  I thought a lever would open a cage.   Arggg!@!#!


**Edit    I do not know if it is intended or not, but I guess one of the more recent updates now disallows dump sites from being placed on top of a channeled out hole in the ground. I could have swore you could before.  I deleted the dump site, placed one in the hallway and dwarves showed up to 'dump' everything there.  It just does not like it when I place one on an open space for the purposes of making a garbage chute.

**Edit 2.. I just noticed a help sub forum, so am going to copy and paste this in there.  A mod maybe should lock this or delete it.  Thanks.
« Last Edit: January 26, 2015, 07:31:01 pm by Apostolos »
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Salmeuk

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Re: Need help yet again
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2015, 10:05:48 pm »

IIRC you need to place the dump site adjacent to the pit or cliff that you intend things to be thrown off of.
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