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[jiggymonkey]

Ok I know something is not working right because this was not an issue before, but my dorfs are just tossing food on the floor instead of using the (counting...) 26 empty barrels I have in the room not 20 tiles away from the pile of food.  Anyone have any ideas why?

[ildamos]

I'm a fellow newbie but maybe you excluded certain types of food from your barrel stockpile? Also if the barrels are lying on your furniture or finished goods stockpiles (dunno which barrels belong to), no food will be placed there methinks.

[BigJake]

Did you just get a ton of food from the caravan or a butchered creature?  They'll stash the food in the stockpile before coming back to put it in barrels a lot of the time.

[jiggymonkey]

yeah there was a caravan just recently and I bought food, but they are dumping turtle, mussels, plump helmets, all stuff I've grown, haven't bought any of that stuff.

And no, I made the food stockpiles accept food only at first, but then I just added empty barrels to the list of stuff the food piles allow, even though I've witnessed first hand the dorfs putting barrels in "Food Only" piles before.

[ildamos]

Wait I thought barrels are only for ale? Aren't bins the better choice for storing everything else? Correct me if I'm wrong. Still confused about a lot of things. 

[jiggymonkey]

no can store food in barrels as well.  thats the only container you can use to store food in as a matter of fact

[BigJake]

Food is kept in barrels, too.  Unless your furniture stockpile is miles away I'm not sure why you'd want to keep empty barrels in your food stockpile.  They'll grab an empty barrel, stick it in the stockpile and fill it with food automatically.  Try getting the empties out of the food stockpile.

no can store food in barrels as well.  thats the only container you can use to store food in as a matter of fact

Some is kept in bags, too.  Mostly flours and especially seeds.  Though seed bags can only be stored in barrels oddly enough, so you'll have barrels filled with bags filled with seeds.

[jiggymonkey]

lol thats just it, there are no empty barrels in the new foodpiles.  I disbanded my old pile (cuz it was too far away from my new area) and there is still food in them, but they should be starting new barrels for food shouldn't they?

Edit: Haha, a dorf just now filled an empty slot in the foodpile with a plump helmet.  Just dumped it on the floor.

[BigJake]

Are the barrels in a furniture stockpile?

[jiggymonkey]

Are the barrels in a furniture stockpile?

yes, but not sure why that would make a difference, since I've had empty barrels in a furniture pile before, and they used to grab them, put them in the "food only" pile and start filling them.

[Chandrak]

I can think of a possibility people havent metioned - you can reserve barrels in the stockpile menu. Make sure you didnt accidentally turn that really high or something - it reserves barrels for workshop use, so they ARENT used in stockpiles.

[ildamos]

Ah thanks for clearing that up.

[jiggymonkey]

I can think of a possibility people havent metioned - you can reserve barrels in the stockpile menu. Make sure you didnt accidentally turn that really high or something - it reserves barrels for workshop use, so they ARENT used in stockpiles.

:O
where would I look to see if I did that?

[BigJake]

Hit (q) then (s) over the stockpile.

[ildamos]

Hmm. Helpful tip to reserve barrels for ale. Nice!