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Time Kitten

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[40d] Dwarves stockpile items in NPC inventories.
« on: September 30, 2008, 04:45:15 pm »

Sorry if this is an old issue, but I haven't been watching the forums for long.

In my last fortress, I embarked to a cave site with 5 legendary giants in it.  I quickly moated in to get established.  Later, preparing to flood the cave, I open a path and attempt to channel out the entrance ramp to the cave.

My miners do okay, but as soon as it looks like they are almost finished, the other 5 of my dwarves each charge in to "store item in stockpile".  There are some tradegoods, and dead adventurers laying around, but I don't have any stockpiles for them yet and they are all forbidden anyways.

Then I realise, the only new type of stockpile I have implemented since digging in is a general food stockpile.  So I figure that each of those five dwarves picked each of those 5 giant's lunches to store, then saw the giant, then ran to the far corners of the map rather than into my trap system.

I abandoned the fortress, but would like conformation that this is the type of thing that happens.
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Re: [40d] Dwarves stockpile items in NPC inventories.
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2008, 02:47:14 pm »

Just for clarity, you're saying the bug is that the meat wasn't forbidden even though their other trophies were?
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Re: [40d] Dwarves stockpile items in NPC inventories.
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2008, 05:08:59 pm »

The items actually carried by the giants weren't forbidden.  My haulers charged in as soon as the had access to both giant and stockpile.  I can only presume it was meat that they carried, since I had just created the food stockpile.  Everything on ground was forbidden.
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Re: [40d] Dwarves stockpile items in NPC inventories.
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2008, 05:12:44 pm »

Oh wow, you meant in their actual, literal inventories.  That's kind of funny.
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Re: [40d] Dwarves stockpile items in NPC inventories.
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2008, 08:08:13 pm »

5 haulers.

5 stacks of meat.

5 giants holding that meat.

1 stockpile.

2 miners diligently sealing off the only entrance...
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Re: [40d] Dwarves stockpile items in NPC inventories.
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2008, 08:28:49 am »

Oh wow, you meant in their actual, literal inventories.  That's kind of funny.

Soon we'll be seeing peasants trying to steal goblin socks while they're still alive  :P
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Re: [40d] Dwarves stockpile items in NPC inventories.
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2008, 11:03:53 am »

What we need is a baby stockpile so we can get them back after they're snatched by the goblins...
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