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[Tamren]

True of course, but burrows are coming up soon, no idea how that will affect things.

The simplest order i can think of is designating a zone, the anti-stockpile you mentioned. And being able to either clear the pile and put the items in the nearest free space, or put them in a designated area such as the proper stockpiles or one specific stockpile.

[Fedor]

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[ToXey]

It'd be cool to have settings for dumping places. That way, one can dump economic rocks in the middle of the fortress and dump the rest in a chasm. Dumping is a good way of putting a lot of stuff in one square, and it'd be useful to abuse while the system is not revisioned in order to make it hard to cram things into one spot. I am one vote for intelligent dumping!

[joss]

The necro force is strong with this one...

[ToXey]

I vote for dead features.

*edit* i searched for "necroing"

thx

[Derakon]

ToXey: dumping is for items you no longer want. Using it to pile lots of items onto the same square is cheating, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. The fact that it's also one of the few ways to easily say "move these items over here" to your dwarves is a problem, but the answer is not simply to make the current cheat easier to use.

[Atarlost]

Since we seem to have an undead thread here anyways:
A related thing I'd like is for haulers to actively clear stockpiles of stuff that doesn't belong on them.  It would be nice to be able to lay down stockpiles in non-soil layers without setting dump stone designations. 

[profit]

ToXey: dumping is for items you no longer want. Using it to pile lots of items onto the same square is cheating, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. The fact that it's also one of the few ways to easily say "move these items over here" to your dwarves is a problem, but the answer is not simply to make the current cheat easier to use.

Technically it is bug exploitation, not cheating.  Perhaps it is intended, perhaps not.. who knows..  Now what I do.... Using Dtil to change every vein of microline in my fort to adamantium IS cheating... But he is doing things within the framework of the game... and since this is a single player game... well I say go to it.

And until we get multi level stockpiles, and the ability to consolidate things better in a stockpile it seems a decent work around, certainly not grounds for calling him a cheater. (I mean honestly, why only 1 sock per square... how many pig tail socks can you reasonably fit in a single square?  maybe a 1000 or so at least?)

On the subject of the anti stockpile.. this has come up in a few forms, and I have to think it might be usefull, but complicated... Like applying it to a massive area and have them haul away only the stones you want and the rest will get covered in magma when your done.

[Sizik]

Since we seem to have an undead thread here anyways:
A related thing I'd like is for haulers to actively clear stockpiles of stuff that doesn't belong on them.  It would be nice to be able to lay down stockpiles in non-soil layers without setting dump stone designations. 

I'm quite sure you can do that by creating a stockpile that doesn't accept any items over the stone you don't want, then make a stone stockpile that is set to take from it.

[profit]

Since we seem to have an undead thread here anyways:
A related thing I'd like is for haulers to actively clear stockpiles of stuff that doesn't belong on them.  It would be nice to be able to lay down stockpiles in non-soil layers without setting dump stone designations. 

I'm quite sure you can do that by creating a stockpile that doesn't accept any items over the stone you don't want, then make a stone stockpile that is set to take from it.

I am fairly certain you would have to forbid all the stone in the fortress for something like that to work in that situation.. just because there is a take from designation doesn't mean the haulers wont look elsewhere for the stone.