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[darkflagrance]

I just lost a lot of champions wearing masterwork armor to a siege. Their bodies were picked up and buried, but their armor is still lying there on the battlefield. I have an armor and weapon stockpile, so I don't know why my dwarves aren't clearing it up. Some of it has been lying there for a few seasons.

[MinerMan60101]

You could dump all the armor and reclaim i later, or

Make a dummy squad and assign them the armor left on the battefield, and then you can remove the squad and they will probably drop the armor where they stand, but either solution may just move the armor to a different place and still not where you want it.

[scourge728]

you may just need to wait, the dwarven AI is known to do everything but the thing you actually want them to do at that moment

[SebasMarolo]

I always have two kinds of weapons and armor stockpiles (actually, for everything from finished goods to statues), some linked to the forges/workshops set to take from links only that take the high quality stuff my dwarfs make, and others unlinked set to take from anywhere.

You're either missing the second kind or you forgot some core/total quality setting. Or those options at the end with the accept non-plant stuff.

Or maybe the soldiers became attached to those items and you have to put a chest on their tombs so they can use their gear on dwarven valhalla.

[crundle]

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Or maybe the soldiers became attached to those items and you have to put a chest on their tombs so they can use their gear on dwarven valhalla.

Wait, so once a dwarf becomes attached to an item, no other dwarf will use it ever, even if the original owner is dead? And those items will be stored in chests in their tombs? I like the idea of burying their named weapons along with my soldiers...

[ldog]

Not in front of the game at the moment, but aren't the default standing orders to forbid all death items?
Are the items forbidden? Did you check that?
The reasoning behind it is so your haulers don't run out onto the battlefield to pick up crap and get themselves killed, causing more haulers to run out to pickup their crap. Rinse/repeat.

[SebasMarolo]

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Or maybe the soldiers became attached to those items and you have to put a chest on their tombs so they can use their gear on dwarven valhalla.

Wait, so once a dwarf becomes attached to an item, no other dwarf will use it ever, even if the original owner is dead? And those items will be stored in chests in their tombs? I like the idea of burying their named weapons along with my soldiers...

I know I read somewhere that when a dwarf becomes attached to their weapon/armour, that item becomes a "named artifact", and that if all the dwarfs who had kills with that weapon weren't given proper burials, the weapon was unusable.

Check the items with "k" to see if they have names or if they're forbiden. I think forbiden items look like this: {Dwarf leather sock}