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[Lord Darkstar]

Milking dwarves dump out any water in a bucket when they grab it to use for milking. Do they also dump the lye out in lye/water holding buckets?

[lanceleoghauni]

I kinda wish lye was just deposited in barrels like booze.

[KojaK]

That would make life a lot easier.

[Quietust]

So if I understand this correctly, if I buy barrels of blood, then forbid the liquid inside and have the barrels hauled away to a stockpile, my dwarves will empty the contents onto the trade depot?

Actually, they'll empty them out at the source (i.e. your food stockpiles), not the destination.

[KojaK]

I believe he was talking about buying barrels of blood off the traders, and having his dwarfs haul away barrels to a stockpile. So in that case, the depot would be the source, and the stocks would be the destination, correct?

[WCG]

OK, I just found this thread, and I think it answered two questions for me. Apparently, there's no way to get dwarves to move lye from a bucket to a barrel (just lye - I don't have mixed buckets) then?

And I guess there's no use for that blood I bought from the caravan, right? Well, it was cheap enough that it's worth it for the barrel. I'll forbid the blood and see if I can't get it dumped.

[iceball3]

Here's an idea for tallow.
1: Put it on a drawbridge in high concentration.
2:During a siege, run a 1/7 magma over highest concentration to light up.
3: Due to a wierd thing with bridges, item launching is more random then aimed. Pull the lever.
4: ??? !!Tallow!! rain some stay dry- !!Tallow!! Danmaku !!!!
5: profit

[vyznev]

Apparently, there's no way to get dwarves to move lye from a bucket to a barrel (just lye - I don't have mixed buckets) then?

According to other threads and the wiki, setting up a stockpile that accepts lye and uses barrels ought to work.

[slothen]

OK, I just found this thread, and I think it answered two questions for me. Apparently, there's no way to get dwarves to move lye from a bucket to a barrel (just lye - I don't have mixed buckets) then?

if you have enough buckets, and make enough lye, and have enough barrels, your dwarves WILL eventually move it to a barrel.  It helps if your haulers aren't busy with other jobs.

[Urist Imiknorris]

It's just not a thing you can tell them to do, similar to cleaning.

[FleshForge]

Mmmmm.