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[Zam]

Whenever I designate a door to be constructed on a tile that has any sort of rock on it, rather than move the rock the dwarves suspend the construction of the door.

[kcwong]

Either that stone is forbidden, or it's a known flaw of the current implementation.

The stone is being used by some other dwarf, and thus "locked" in place. The dwarf building the door cannot move it, and so the door construction is suspended. Once the stone using dwarf moves the stone (he might be sleeping/eating/dancing/mating somewhere), you can resume the door construction.

Or you can try hunting down the job using that stone and cancel it.

It's easily reproducible by mass building walls over an area of stones, with the construction material identical to the stones in the area. Quite often you'll get into the same situation.

[Zam]

The stone is neither forbidden or being used by another dwarf. It would just be something left behind from a miner. My workshops are on the other side of my fortress, using all the stone over there. I just end up having to tag the rocks for dumping before I can build the door.

[RAM]

Is it possible that the stone is being used in some nearby construction, rocks can be used by things that don't involve workshops... Also it may be the target of a hauling job, a workshop may have used a stone from a stockpile, and then the stockpile asked for a rock, and chose your lucky friend. You could try removing that rock from your stockpiles to test it, or you can wait until the dwarf arrives to build the door then forbid and unforbid the rock to clear any jobs on it, or dump the rock separately...

[Iapetus]

I've got a similar problem in my current fortress, and its not just rocks that are causing problems.

Significantly, its a reclaimed fortress, and most of the items that are causing problems (mostly mechanisms and corpses) were all things left over from the previous fortress.  (And I think the rocks might be as well).

The mechanisms were dropped when HFS destroyed some of my flood gates (and traps as well, I think), and the corpses (all dwarfs) never decayed.

The items are not being used by anything, cannot be used by anything, and cannot be dumped either.

I've tried designating an appropriate stockpile under them, but they still don't get recognised for any job.

[Footkerchief]

I've got a similar problem in my current fortress, and its not just rocks that are causing problems.

Significantly, its a reclaimed fortress, and most of the items that are causing problems (mostly mechanisms and corpses) were all things left over from the previous fortress.  (And I think the rocks might be as well).

The mechanisms were dropped when HFS destroyed some of my flood gates (and traps as well, I think), and the corpses (all dwarfs) never decayed.

The items are not being used by anything, cannot be used by anything, and cannot be dumped either.

I've tried designating an appropriate stockpile under them, but they still don't get recognised for any job.

Are the items forbidden?  All items start off forbidden in reclaimed fortress, and you have to reclaim the items (use the reclaim designation or the Stocks screen).

If they're reclaimed, I think there have been reports of a bug that causes all items tasked for a job at the moment of abandoning to never become available for use again.

[TettyNullus]

I've got a similar problem in my current fortress, and its not just rocks that are causing problems.

Significantly, its a reclaimed fortress, and most of the items that are causing problems (mostly mechanisms and corpses) were all things left over from the previous fortress.  (And I think the rocks might be as well).

The mechanisms were dropped when HFS destroyed some of my flood gates (and traps as well, I think), and the corpses (all dwarfs) never decayed.

The items are not being used by anything, cannot be used by anything, and cannot be dumped either.

I've tried designating an appropriate stockpile under them, but they still don't get recognised for any job.

Are the items forbidden?  All items start off forbidden in reclaimed fortress, and you have to reclaim the items (use the reclaim designation or the Stocks screen).

If they're reclaimed, I think there have been reports of a bug that causes all items tasked for a job at the moment of abandoning to never become available for use again.

I've heard that they becomes avaliable again when the tile under them are channeled out ( or in case of constructed floor, deconstructed ) so they drops, apparently effecting a 'status reset' on the stuck object. (Disclaimer, I've never reclaimed fortresses, but I've seen others mentioning and commenting on it )