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[Citizen of Erl]

So I had a merchant die or drop some goods or something near the edge of my map, including some lovely things like steel bars and the like. However, my dwarves refuse to go get these items. They are not forbidden, I had stockpiles set aside, they just don't want to grab the goods. They'll take other things from outside, so that's not forbidden.

Any ideas, or are these things just forever out of reach? I am getting mad watching keas steal it all.

[Derro]

Is there a direct path to the goods?

Alternatively, designating the goods to be dumped somewhere may get your dwarves to move them.

[Iamblichos]

You may also need to designate (o)utside (r)efuse to be gathered... I've seen this bug pop up before.

[PatrikLundell]

Items marked as belonging to merchants (or books belonging to purged vampires posing as entertainers) can frequently not be moved. The only way I've found to get those items is to use DFHack's gui/gm-editor to remove the merchant tag from the item.

[darkflagrance]

This has happened to me before with many merchant goods. The best that can be done is dump and atom smash the items. If you are very unlucky the items will be off map and unreachable and take up nemory uselessly.

[Urist McVoyager]

I noticed something vaguely similar earlier myself. This time with stone. I made a stockpile, and it was easily filled by three wheelbarrows. After attaching it to a mason's shop, people stopped filling it. I got them to work again by destroying that stone pile and rebuilding it without making it give to the mason's shop.

Are your stockpiles attached to anything? If so, try destroying and remaking them to see if it works.

[Citizen of Erl]

I didn't have the refuse orders set, but it didn't change anything. Stockpiles are not set to anything, so that's not the issue. They just don't wanna grab 'em.

Oddly enough, a dwarf went into a fey mood and nabbed something from the merchant stock, though. But that's about it.

[infrequentLurker]

Sometimes forbidding glitched items, advancing the game by 1 step to make sure the game realizes they were forbidden, then unforbidding them can help reset the game's logic regarding the buggy items.