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[Bakaridjan]

A lot of my dwarves are carrying around random stuff and it's slowing them way down. One, adult dwarf, has about 8 toys. My milker who just went into a mood is carrying no less than 12 pots. I don't know if he'll complete his mood because he's so slow. A miner has carried a copper wheelbarrow around for the last 7 years of this fort. Why are they doing this and how do I get them to drop that crap. I've already tried forbidding it or alternately dumping it, but that doesn't seem to do anything.

[martinuzz]

I haven't tried myself, but have you tried assigning said dwarf to a military squad, then giving him a 'replace clothing' setting in the equipment menu?

[Bakaridjan]

It seems that the items the dwarves are carrying are actually owned items. So if I assign them to a military unit and give them and order they assume their uniform and drop the items. But once they are removed from the unit, they go and pick their stuff back up again and keep carrying it. I will have to do more tests later on this. Once they items are dropped they could be dumped/forbidden. Then I'll have a pile full of confiscated crap just laying around. Is their anyway I can remove it's "owned" status?

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

Wait for dfhack.

[therahedwig]

Have you given them rooms with coffers yet? Maybe they'll stick their belongings there?

[martinuzz]

Once they items are dropped they could be dumped/forbidden. Then I'll have a pile full of confiscated crap just laying around. Is their anyway I can remove it's "owned" status?

atomsmash it (build a garbage dump zone over a 1x1 channel that drops down to a floor over which you can drop a raised bridge, that's how you get rid of all useless junk the easy way)

[greycat]

Owned clothing can't be dumped -- hence the need for DFHack's remove ownership feature.  I don't know about owned wheelbarrows and other new flair.

On the other hand, Toady could fix the bug and render remove-ownership-and-dump-and-smash workarounds unnecessary.

[Zuglarkun]

If its a question of ownership, then forbidding should work, I do it for forbidding XclothesX in order to be able to trade them. You just have to wait for the ownership to wear off while it if forbidden. Once the ownership wears off (in about a season or so I think) the item should be relinquished by the owner, in the meantime they will keep wearing/ carrying that item around even if its forbidden, unless you draft them into the military or something. Not the best workaround, and I'm not entirely sure it will work either, but it won't hurt to give it a try.

[Bakaridjan]

@Zuglarkun that's good to know. I will give it a shot. I tried forbidding, but I didn't leave it one for a super long time. It would certainly be easier to find slow dwarves and forbid the stuff they're carrying instead of going through and draft them all and then figuring out where they dropped their crap and forbidding it. That's the kind of tedium that makes DF not-so-much fun for me.

[Arvoitusmies]

Wait for dfhack.

You don't have to wait if you just compile the develop branch yourself. It's working perfectly.

[Bakaridjan]

Just as a follow-up, putting chests in rooms seemed to help with some things. Particularly those who were carrying around massive numbers of toys. Once they got a chest, they put them all safely in their rooms. However, chests and forbidding didn't seem to have any affect on other things like wheelbarrows or pots. My dwarf with 12 pots added one more and is now lugging 13 around with him everywhere he goes. I also lost a dwarf to this. After leaving my civilian alert on for a long time I closed off one of my cavern levels assuming I had given sufficient time for everyone to get out. Later I got the "So-and-so has been missing for over a week." I found him and his 8 pots later in the cavern. He must have been far away and never made it to the door on time.

Am I the only one experiencing this? Is it a known issue that Toady is working on? Maybe I'll have to figure out how to leave a bug report.