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Leonidas

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Take from Stockpile
« on: September 11, 2010, 06:35:20 pm »
Is this bugged in the new version?  I used to use it all the time, and now it doesn't seem to do anything.

More relevantly, is there currently any way to pull items out of bins or barrels, short of using them for jobs?
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beorn080

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Re: Take from Stockpile
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2010, 07:28:16 pm »
Take from stockpile is broken, or at least it was. It may still be.

Do a Dump drag across the stockpile with a dump site right next to it, then reduce the number of bins allowed in that stockpile to zero. You may have to unforbid the bins after they are dumped to finish getting stuff out of them though, but if bins allowed is set to zero, they should snag all the stuff and spread it out.
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Re: Take from Stockpile
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2010, 08:03:32 pm »
Really?  In what way is "take from stockpile" broken?  I mean, I know I can't have multiple small stockpiles taking from a big central one, which is too bad, but otherwise the "take from stockpile" function has always worked for me.
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Re: Take from Stockpile
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2010, 09:29:56 pm »
'Take from' has not been broken in a while, and should work fine.  There are some instances where it works oddly, as in the case where you have one stockpile taking from another and the one doing the taking has no bins enabled, and the one taken from has a bunch of items in bins, the items will occasionally not be taken out of the bins and moved.  You can get around this by dumping all the bins full of goods then reclaiming everything and letting your dwarves re-sort it all.
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Re: Take from Stockpile
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2010, 04:46:56 pm »
Quote from: KrazyDocK on September 11, 2010, 08:03:32 pm
I mean, I know I can't have multiple small stockpiles taking from a big central one, which is too bad, but otherwise the "take from stockpile" function has always worked for me.

Actually, I have a couple stockpiles taking from a central stockpile, and it works fine for me.
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Avin

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Re: Take from Stockpile
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2010, 04:51:59 pm »
Quote from: Leonidas on September 11, 2010, 06:35:20 pm
More relevantly, is there currently any way to pull items out of bins or barrels, short of using them for jobs?

What are you trying to move?
Personally when I'm trying to sort things I'll make some very specific stock piles. For example if my mayor starts putting mandates on nickel items I'll disable nickel from my main craft piles and make another just for nickel items.
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Re: Take from Stockpile
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2010, 01:49:47 pm »
Quote from: Crifmer on September 23, 2010, 04:46:56 pm
Quote from: KrazyDocK on September 11, 2010, 08:03:32 pm
I mean, I know I can't have multiple small stockpiles taking from a big central one, which is too bad, but otherwise the "take from stockpile" function has always worked for me.

Actually, I have a couple stockpiles taking from a central stockpile, and it works fine for me.

Actually, I don't.  I went back and looked at it a little more carefully and you're right - you can only have one stockpile taking from another stockpile.  That's too bad.
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