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[captduck]

Is there a way to have limited outside garbage collection?  I don't want to enable outside garbage collection and have my dwarves go half way across the map to grab a butterfly corpse a cat killed and then be murdered by a goblin ambush.  In particular I'd like to clear out an area that's inside my fortress but has no ceiling.  Is there any way to do that without just sealing everybody in the fortress and enabling global outside garbage collection?

[KrazyDocK]

The only way I can think of is burrows.  Define a burrow that includes EVERY layer underground, plus that limited area outside.  Then assign all dwarves to that burrow.

[existent]

d > b might have something you could use. Dump it all, and then reclaim it, maybe?

[captduck]

I tried using Dump.  Doesn't work    They won't actually go dump it unless outside garbage collection is on.  I'll have to do the burrow thing.  Should I just make an alert with that burrow assigned to it or is there a fast way to assign and unassign everybody to a burrow quickly?

[Eugenitor]

Set a refuse stockpile and don't dump, but rather reclaim the garbage left in the fort.

[KrazyDocK]

I tried using Dump.  Doesn't work    They won't actually go dump it unless outside garbage collection is on.  I'll have to do the burrow thing.  Should I just make an alert with that burrow assigned to it or is there a fast way to assign and unassign everybody to a burrow quickly?

I haven't used burrows too much so my experience is limited... but I think making an alert with that burrow assigned to it IS the fast way to do it.

[captduck]

Yeah the burrow/alert thing sounds like the way to do it.

Set a refuse stockpile and don't dump, but rather reclaim the garbage left in the fort.

They won't move any of it to the refuse stockpile(or garbage dump) until outside garbage collection is turned on.