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[Mashirafen]

My Dwarves aren't putting food in barrels, they're just leaving it on the floor of the food stockpile. And there are plenty of barrels available, sitting only in the next room. 

Edited because I didn't want to make another topic.

[Footkerchief]

It sounds like you're mixing up activation and duty.  Activation changes a civilian to a soldier.  Duty can be toggled on and off on a soldier squad.  If they're labeled as peasants, they are civilians, and you need to activate the squad with 'a' in the military screen.  This should change them to recruits, then you can press 'v' on the squad to set them on/off duty.

[JoshuaFH]

i have a related question, i can't get my sole marksdwarf to shoot at the archery target i've set up. its marked as an archery range, and i have the correct orientation, so i don't see why my marksdwarf won't do anything with it.

[(name here)]

i have a related question, i can't get my sole marksdwarf to shoot at the archery target i've set up. its marked as an archery range, and i have the correct orientation, so i don't see why my marksdwarf won't do anything with it.

It could be the wrong size, or it could be that you only have metal bolts, or it could be that he's holding an item in his off hand.

[Mashirafen]

It sounds like you're mixing up activation and duty.  Activation changes a civilian to a soldier.  Duty can be toggled on and off on a soldier squad.  If they're labeled as peasants, they are civilians, and you need to activate the squad with 'a' in the military screen.  This should change them to recruits, then you can press 'v' on the squad to set them on/off duty.

When I activate the squad they disappear off the military screen.

[(name here)]

It sounds like you're mixing up activation and duty.  Activation changes a civilian to a soldier.  Duty can be toggled on and off on a soldier squad.  If they're labeled as peasants, they are civilians, and you need to activate the squad with 'a' in the military screen.  This should change them to recruits, then you can press 'v' on the squad to set them on/off duty.

When I activate the squad they disappear off the military screen.

They move up to the top. If they really disappear, you have bigger problems than not sparing.

[Mashirafen]

Oh god, you're right, they do move to the top and I just didn't notice. I knew it was stupidity on my part. 

Thanks.

[Mashirafen]

New problem: See original post.

[Footkerchief]

'q' over the stockpile and make sure its Barrels setting is at max.  Note that this is NOT the same as setting up the stockpile to accept barrels

[Mashirafen]

It's set to hold up to 220 barrels. I don't even have that many barrels.

[Footkerchief]

Oh.  Are they prepared meals?  Food in stacks bigger than 10 can't fit inside barrels, and prepared meals tend to produce very large stacks of food.  Don't worry, if it's in the stockpile it won't rot.

[Mashirafen]

Ah, okay. I was just about to post here saying it was all prepared meals to see if that had anything to do with it.

Thanks.

[Puck]

Oh.  Are they prepared meals?  Food in stacks bigger than 10 can't fit inside barrels, and prepared meals tend to produce very large stacks of food.  Don't worry, if it's in the stockpile it won't rot.

Ooops. I didn't even know THAT one.

Soooo.... is it beneficial to store prepared meals that way? I mean... assume your kitchen spits out stacks of 2... or maybe 5.. (i assume its cook-skill-dependant, yes?) would a single tile be able to hold more food then, because it could fit into that barrel?
(wow, I just realized I could just ask "And how many single-"stack" prepared meals normally fit into a barrel?")

If not, is there a way to maximize efficiency by cooking certain quality grades of meals because the different grades have a higher chance of spawning a certain stack count?
(like... a perfect cook makes stacks of 15 easy but 5 lavish meals)

[Footkerchief]

The stack size of the meal is just the stack sizes of all the ingredient stacks added together.  Doesn't depend on anything else.  Lavish uses the most ingredients, so it produces the biggest stacks.  You can get 30+ meals in a single tile sometimes.

[Dhargk]

The stack size of the meal is just the stack sizes of all the ingredient stacks added together.  Doesn't depend on anything else.  Lavish uses the most ingredients, so it produces the biggest stacks.  You can get 30+ meals in a single tile sometimes.

If you cook Lavish meals with high-stacking things like Dwarven Syrup and Booze, you can get up to around 80 (I think 100 max) meals in a single stack.

20 Dwarven Wine + 20 Dwarven Ale + Longland Beer + 20 Dwarven Syrup = [80] Dwarven Wine Roast