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Refar

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How to remove owned items ?
« on: October 21, 2008, 03:29:18 pm »
So i drafted a few Dwarves, gave them armor... they dropped they old XX(Crappy Socks)XX in the stockpile...
While it seems not to interfere with the stockpile operation it still hugely annoys me...
I have been using "hide"... But i would really like to get rid of that crap...

I know the stuff can't be dumped...
Tried giving the Dwarves Cabinets and Coffers in the rooms, hoping they would collect the stuff and store it there... Didn't work.

Any suggestions how to deal with this ?
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Re: How to remove owned items ?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2008, 03:54:39 pm »
I have this same problem, except with two legendary wrestlers.

They rip clothing off one another in the barracks, and it just lays there.
They walk around the fortress in nothing but trousers and socks, WWE style.

Though it is entertaining thinking of two dwarves bare-handling a group of goblins while practically naked. Mind you, they also have no armour.

To randomly say; Legendary Wrestler > Legendary Armour User, imo.
Oh, you can take a shot from a crossbow bolt? I can -dodge- the bolt, sucker.
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Re: How to remove owned items ?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2008, 08:21:49 pm »
There are quite a few ways other than ignoring or hiding them.

1. Flood the room with lava
2. Channel the tiles with stuff on them, then rebuild the floor over the stuff
3. Order a bridge to be built. A dwarf should come along and move anything - even owned stuff - off the side somewhere. Then just cancel the bridge construction

The trick, of course, is to pick the option that is least annoying to you.
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Re: How to remove owned items ?
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2008, 09:24:12 pm »
Quote from: Skanky on October 21, 2008, 08:21:49 pm
3. Order a bridge to be built. A dwarf should come along and move anything - even owned stuff - off the side somewhere. Then just cancel the bridge construction
If you make a drawbridge over one area, and build a bridge over the area next to it, you can use the drawbridge as an atom smasher to destroy the items.
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Refar

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Re: How to remove owned items ?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2008, 01:48:19 am »
Hmmm... Flooding my main stockpile area with lava... Sounds promising, but i think i will keep this one for when i want to get rid of the fort ;D

I should have thought of it when setting it up - going to build a small "Change of Cloth Stockpile" in a separate, magma-floodable room now.

The two draw bridges suggestion worked for the stuff already there - thanks Bombcar.

Tho it was a lot of work for all the socks the jerks droped everywhere.
We really need a way to designate owned stuff to be dumped... Or at least moved and stored under the owners bed... :(
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Re: How to remove owned items ?
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2008, 05:18:31 am »
Using Tweak to set the square's temperature around magma levels would probably solve it

Would "solve" the rest of your stockpile and flood the hallways with smoke too
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