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[Lightman]

I forgot to make a coin stockpile right off when I started on the economy of my fortress. Obviously, the stacks just sat around at the forges. The problem is that now I have hundreds of single coins and small stacks cluttering up the forges. It's created an almost infinite number of hauling jobs and basically crippled productivity in the fortress for a long time. Now, I assume that when the dwarves came to collect X number of coins, they broke up the stacks and that's how this happened. I'm not sure this is strictly speaking a "bug" but it's a problem with the (current) game mechanics that I think ought to be addressed.

[Footkerchief]

It's not a bug and there's dev notes and various threads about improving stacks and restacking.

[Lightman]

Oh, yeah. I know about the stacking. It just seems crazy that coins could disable a workshop through that and force tons of hauling jobs. Despite the lack of re-stacking, they otherwise put all these stupid things in bins. That makes it workable. Obviously, they won't use bins in a workshop so I just thought that was kind of a special case of non-stacking grinding everything to a halt.

[Footkerchief]

Oh, I didn't see the part about the workshops.  That's easy, just remove the building and rebuild it, all the stuff will get scattered on the ground but at least it won't clutter the workshop.

[Cavalcadeofcats]

Happened to me once. Took me a long while to figure out the problem. It was pretty impressive when the forges got disassembled and five million coins exploded outward.

Then a goblin raid got inside the workshops, so bits of goblin and dog and dwarf got tossed into the mix...

[Yanlin]

Happened to me once. Took me a long while to figure out the problem. It was pretty impressive when the forges got disassembled and five million coins exploded outward.

Then a goblin raid got inside the workshops, so bits of goblin and dog and dwarf got tossed into the mix...

Did they literally get thrown out? Wow that had to hurt.

[Strife26]

Happened to me once. Took me a long while to figure out the problem. It was pretty impressive when the forges got disassembled and five million coins exploded outward.

Then a goblin raid got inside the workshops, so bits of goblin and dog and dwarf got tossed into the mix...

Did they literally get thrown out? Wow that had to hurt.

Everyone in range could of died! Thank goodness thrown stuff doesn't actually hurt in Forts.

[Yanlin]

Happened to me once. Took me a long while to figure out the problem. It was pretty impressive when the forges got disassembled and five million coins exploded outward.

Then a goblin raid got inside the workshops, so bits of goblin and dog and dwarf got tossed into the mix...

Did they literally get thrown out? Wow that had to hurt.

Everyone in range could of died! Thank goodness thrown stuff doesn't actually hurt in Forts.

Damn it. There goes my elaborate coin flinging trap of doom.