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[HatfieldCW]

Lately I've been spending a lot of time "carving" my stockpiles for maximum efficiency and looks.  I'll designate the whole dining hall as a drink stockpile, then systematically delete big swaths of it so that the one pile takes the form of a barrel by every table and a perimeter of booze along the walls, or I'll slice up a seed stockpile so that they're arranged tastefully in the low-traffic section of my farms.

I don't exactly know how this works, with the designating and the deleting, but it sure is nice to be able to have a stockpile that's not contiguous, but each "patch" of it has the same identity.  Could we get a sort of "eyedropper" tool for designating piles, that would allow me to dip my virtual brush in "Furniture Stockpile #18" and paint some more of the same?

[blazzano]

This is a pretty large thread bump, but I just wanted to say that these ideas are still good ones.  There's at least two ideas in the thread that are good, in fact.  The usefulness of resizing stockpiles is fairly obvious.

Being able to copy/paste stockpile settings (specifically, the items it's configured to accept, not the 'shape' of the stockpile) would also be very useful, for the reasons stated, plus a few additional reasons:

1.  If you have small, specialized stockpiles near certain workshops, and later decide to add more workshops of the same type, you can create duplicate stockpiles with minimal fuss.

2.  Ditto if you're the type to do large-scale renovations on a fort as it matures, or even build a new, "final" fort configuration elsewhere on the map.  Building new workshops in those cases is trivial; reestablishing the stockpile configuration can be quite a bit more annoying.

The game already has a bit of stockpile memory.  If you use the custom stockpile settings option when building a new stockpile, it seems to remember the settings you used last time.  From there it's probably not too difficult a step to be able to hover over any existing stockpile, and "paste" that stockpile's settings to the custom stockpile configuration page.

[ManaUser]

For anyone interested, I just added "Resize and/or copy stockpiles" to DF Eternal Suggestion Voting. Go vote!

[Footkerchief]

It blows my mind this hasn't been implemented yet.

[Dirst]

It blows my mind this hasn't been implemented yet.

It seems like there must be some serious complexity under the stockpile code, otherwise this is too useful for Toady to have simply not gotten to yet.

A simple eyedropper tool (copy selected stockpile settings to the custom settings) would achieve the lion's share of this suggestion, though it wouldn't bring the links along with it.

[vache]

I'd say the easiest solution would be something that just joins contiguous stockpiles with the same setting into one stockpile, and then have a dropper tool to copy the settings from an existing stockpile.  If for some reason someone wanted contiguous stockpiles with the same settings to remain separate, instead of automatically joining them it could just be made an option in the stockpile settings, or there could be some sort of separate tool to split up existing stockpiles.