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[Naturegirl1999]

I'm looking in my stocks and apparently I have 307 units of ammo that is forbidden, I don't remember forbidding it, and I don't know where it is being stored. How do I unforbid it and prevent more from being forbidden?

[PatrikLundell]

With default settings, all ammo littering the surface from visitors (and your dorfs) trying to shoot down flying pests (and each other) are forbidden. You can unforbid most of them by painting the surface with d-b-c to 'c'laim everything (including stuff dropped by dead units) in the painted area/volume. However, you should think before doing that, because all that stuff will then be eligible for hauling to stockpiles, creating a lot of hauling jobs. Also, DF doesn't support merging stacks, you you're stuck with what's probably close to 300 individual bolts/arrows and possibly a small number of stacks of them. Unless you're using Quantum Stockpiling (QSP), you need a lot of stockpile space for all that junk.

You can change the setting for forbidding items dropped on death, and probably ammo as well, but if you do that, it will result in hauling jobs out onto the surface when something slaughters creatures on said surface (it happens with the default settings as well, as the default is to haul the corpses away, though).

[Naturegirl1999]

thank you

[anewaname]

If you have no ammo stockpiles, un-forbidding all that surface ammo will make it available to your hunters or marksdwarfs, and eventually a dwarf will go out and collect 10 or 20 to fill their quiver, and reuse it.