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[Noble Digger]

I've tried that in the past, but it doesn't actually work - aside from every other dwarf eating and drinking from the jail cells, a 1-tile booze stockpile will never be refilled because it will always end up occupied by a single empty barrel (reserved for holding new food items, and never used for brewing tasks).

Sounds like the food stockpile was set up improperly. As far as stopping your dwarves from eating out of the prison food stockpile, use burrows. A starving dwarf will ignore burrows, whereas healthy ones will not go into a burrow they have been asked not to except in a few circumstances (I haven't tested this a lot).

[Patchy]

I have the same problem as Quietust with a 1 tile booze stockpile in the prisons. I jus ended up building wells in the prison cell instead. Another furniture item to stock with high valued building materials for the inmate to admire.

[Demonic Spoon]

Another solution is to make the booze stockpile two tiles, only one will have a empty barrel placed upon it, the other will still take booze.

[Ricky]

I've found the best way to build prisons is to build a masterwork chain of aluminum or other highly valuable metal, surrounded by a bed, chair, table, and two 1x1 stockpiles, one that only holds drink and one that only holds solid food.

I've tried that in the past, but it doesn't actually work - aside from every other dwarf eating and drinking from the jail cells, a 1-tile booze stockpile will never be refilled because it will always end up occupied by a single empty barrel (reserved for holding new food items, and never used for brewing tasks).

i had a guy on a tin chain, he was happy with just a bunch of food surrounding him, never put booze.., and lots of dwarfs visit him, its like rehab

[Quantum Toast]

May I ask, Quantum,
how you intend to retrieve
this noble's body?

Evaporation.

[Huesoo]

just kill all law inforcement

>8D

FUCK THA POLICE! I kill all my nobles.

[SenorPiquante]

I'm lucky, my nobles just keep mandating sensible and useful things, like steel items and shields. The very second that one mandates some slade, he's getting burrowed into the Elf Perforator.

[Lost Requiem]

I once had a noble that mandated nothing but barrels and bins. He was alright by me...

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until he started banning their export and had everyone declared criminals during trade season. I dropped the entire fortress on him, literally.

Back on topic, You could have the stockpiles take from the main stockpiles. That way, it is always full of food and drink.

And I never use cages for dwarves. Only Animals, Elves, gobs, and Dragons.

[Epacsten]

If  stockpile is only allowed to hold drink and not furniture, empty barrels should never be left there as long as you have stockpile space for them.

I always set up a specific stockpile just for empty barrels.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

why not just have watering holes at each dwarven cell?

man, I think I'll make a full scale prison next, including a food delivery system powered by water.. I'll use darius's "friendship" and have elven slaves manually pumping the water from inside their cells..

Should be fun

[Cheshire Cat]

May I ask, Quantum,
how you intend to retrieve
this noble's body?

i see what you did
you clever little guy you
sadly no one saw.

[Cheshire Cat]

May I ask, Quantum,
how you intend to retrieve
this noble's body?

Evaporation.

you silly person.
magma leaves nothing at all
only steel survives.

adamantium
also won't melt, but nobles
are not wolverine.

this is far too much fun.

[SenorPiquante]

These dwarven haikus
Appear unexpectedly
Not sure what to think.

[Lost Requiem]

Oh Armok not this
I hate poetry so much
Don't hijack the thread
I will raise my bronze shovel
And smash your skulls into dust

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That's a Tanka, an extension of Haiku. My college writing class dealt with poetry last week.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Oh silly nobles.
They demand rediculous things.
Their death should be swift.

Captain of the guard
Never appoint him, truly,
He just makes it worse.