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Chris Haldor

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Clothes all over the barracks
« on: September 08, 2009, 05:22:58 pm »

when dwarves armour up, they leave their clothes lying around the barracks. Is there a way to put them in chests or cabinets or anything? because i tried putting one of each in the barracks, but that just ended up with the old-code "checkig" thing
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Shurhaian

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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2009, 05:34:40 pm »

This is not restricted to the barracks(although that has the separate issue of sparring wrestlers tearing clothes off). Anytime the dwarves get new gear, they seem to drop their old gear right where they got the new - but they still retain ownership of it.

My latest and most successful fortress embarked right beside the (exposed) magma pipe, so magma and other industries got a head start on the surface. Which made the place a playground for rhesus macaques... after the soldiers got their boots, the monkeys would swarm in and run off with their old shoes. And since they still OWNED the shoes, said shoes wouldn't get tossed into a stockpile.
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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2009, 05:45:44 pm »

Unfortunately, those clothes in the barracks will likely never be moved, and they won't wear down either, as only clothes currently being worn will wear down.

You can hide them by going to the mass designations submenu (d - b) and 'h'ide them. It won't make them go away, but you won't have to look at them.

Or you can try removing the barracks, setting all your soldiers armor preferences to clothes, and stand them down, and wait for a while, and maybe they'll get their clothes in order, so long as they have rooms and cabinets and chests to stuff things into. From what I can tell of other people using this, it isn't very successful.

Other solutions involve magma.
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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2009, 05:51:40 pm »

True, magma does tend to solve most problems
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Skorpion

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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2009, 05:56:32 pm »

Indeed. If you don't mind erasing all the flooring, you can remove the barracks and the furniture, stick it elsewhere while everyone moves, and just torch the clothes with magma.
Or just hide and dump-designate them, so that when someone dies they get disposed of.
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Shurhaian

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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2009, 07:26:22 pm »

Does it only work then? I thought dump was famous for ignoring ownership. Like, you can dump merchants' gear and the Hammerer's eponymous weapon(and, in the former case, reclaim them later).
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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2009, 07:47:22 pm »

Equipped weapons and armour aren't owned, however. Particularly not ones on merchants or recent migrants.
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A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Raven has been knocked unconcious!

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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2009, 08:38:52 pm »

Idea; build a barracks on a bridge, with a single little cubbyhole for a weapons rack to designate it from. I'm sure you can see where this idea is going.
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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2009, 04:23:54 am »

Idea; build a barracks on a bridge, with a single little cubbyhole for a weapons rack to designate it from. I'm sure you can see where this idea is going.

make it on a cliff right above your entrance, if you want to dispose of clothes, send them flying, if you want to dispose of a siege, send dwarves flying.
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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2009, 08:39:11 am »

Idea; build a barracks on a bridge, with a single little cubbyhole for a weapons rack to designate it from. I'm sure you can see where this idea is going.

make it on a cliff right above your entrance, if you want to dispose of clothes, send them flying, if you want to dispose of a siege, send dwarves flying.

Paratroopers! Hot damn!
Direct siege injection!
They have time to wake up in mid-air!
(well, if you could place furniture on bridges, that is)
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Re: Clothes all over the barracks
« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2009, 08:42:08 am »

They have time to wake up in mid-air!
(well, if you could place furniture on bridges, that is)

If you tell them to sleep in the barracks and there aren't any beds, I'm pretty sure they'll sleep on the floor. It'd be interesting to see if they'll actually sleep on a bridge...
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