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[Valandor]

Wood and Stone stockpiles can only hold 1 item on each square, which is kind of silly since you could easily stack a couple of logs/rocks on top of each other.

What I would suggest is that you can stack up to 5 items in one square, but it becomes impassible when more then 2 items are stored in the square (you can walk around 1 or 2 rocks but 3 is to hard). This would make wood and stone stockpiles a lot more useful and realistic.

[Draco18s]

At current, dwarves need to be standing on the item in order to pick it up, but other than that, I support this.
(This also means that stockpiles becomes a much better solution to storing items than just leaving them laying around.

[umiman]

*walks around a rock*

Hrm, that wasn't too hard.

I think you are mistaking rocks for boulders. Though what "rocks" mean in-game is anyone's guess.

[Erk]

I think with present code this has to be done with a container, but I wonder if a larger container than a bin could be used for wood and stone. Thoughts include bales and sheds.

[Derakon]

I think you are mistaking rocks for boulders. Though what "rocks" mean in-game is anyone's guess.

Rocks are pretty fungible, since a single rock can be used to make anything from a door or statue to a ring. Rocks are, at the very least, on a similar scale as dwarves themselves are, though.

[slMagnvox]

Convert rock into stone blocks at your mason shop.  Stone blocks can be stored in bins.  Can no longer be used as raw materials for the mason shop, but blocks are great for construction.

Wood, just make your stockpile bigger.  If my terrain isn't very dangerous, I make a very large wood pile outdoors and a smaller one indoors near my carpenter.  You can set the smaller stockpile to take from the larger outdoor pile

[Draco18s]

Pile of wooden logs?

[slMagnvox]

Pile of wooden logs?

omg stockpile hax

[Valandor]

Pile of wooden logs?

That's exactly what I mean! And you can do something similar for rocks

[Jamuk]

Like this?

[Elvenshae]

You just know some dorf's going to get a mood, and take the one on the bottom.

[Draco18s]

Image of Stones
Like this?

Reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy's work.

[Valandor]

You just know some dorf's going to get a mood, and take the one on the bottom.

It should cause a minor "cave-in" when a dwarf does that xD

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I like how there's just one stick holding up the whole thing.

So on topic, I think the issue with stone and wood is that mostly we just leave stone where it lies, inside, which really isn't a problem since we can get to it later if we want. Logs, however, tend to stay outside unless you have stockpile space.

So, is it that hard to make a 10x10 wood stockpile? In dangerous terrain, I generally time my logging operations for just after a seige ends, or after I figure the ambushes have all fled. I send out woodcutters, get my carpenters to burn through logs as fast as the haulers bring them in, and fill up my stockpiles before the end of the season and more ambushers come.

Maybe you could refine logs the same way you refine stones, to make lumber that works just like blocks work now. Although building with wood is hardly common.

[Jamuk]

I usually end up practically hollowing out the mountain because I just use 11x11 grids so I can use the blocks for any purpose later on. I rarely ever have trouble storing wood.