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[Aquillion]

I've had over a screenful of lye buckets just sitting in the ashery for ages now.  I have plenty of room in my food stockpiles, and although barrels are tight, I've been able to make them fast enough to keep the rest of my barrel-using processes (brewing, etc) going fine, and can track down a few empty barrels if I search for them.  The lye buckets just sit there, though...

And, of course, I can't make any potash because it won't find any lye.

I'm not sure why this is happening.  I know that barrels are needed somewhere in the process, but if it's taking a year with all the barrels I have sitting around, I assume I've hit a bug.

It's fairly silly in any case, though; the bucket used in the potash-production sequence isn't even that important.  The dwarves stupidly pour the lye into the bucket, then pour it right back out again to make bars of potash... and yet, if they can't find the bucket they just freeze up and complain.

There's a bucket built in to the ashery, though, isn't there?  You need to use one to build it.  Why not have them pour the lye in there?  Other dwarves with barrels could come and pick it up if they're available, but that way you could also go straight from producing lye to producing potash without having to drag a precious barrel all the way over to your Ashery just so the dwarves can use it in the bizarre five-second ritual they use it for now.

[ September 15, 2006: Message edited by: Aquillion ]

[Toady One]

Yeah, we've discussed the irrelevance of the lye step before.  You'd still want to be able to make it if soap becomes important, but you should probably just be able to double-time a potash from ash job just as well.

As for why they aren't hauling your lye...  dunno.  I think it ends up being something like a food hauler's job, but you probably have plenty of those.  If there are always people hauling food, the lye would have to wait its turn, but other than that, I can't think of anything immediately.

[Kjoery]

I've found that, unless there isn't anything else to do, workers wont move stuff from lye shops/kitchens; I usually have to dismantle the workshop to have the stuff moved out.

[Maximus]

It may not work reliably, but when I've assigned my craftsdwarves Item Hauling, they tend to cart their items to nearby stockpiles.  Maybe if you  gave your ashery operators or cooks Food Hauling, they'd move the damn stuff out.

[bbb]

for the time being... what about a couple of grunts doing nothing but food hauling?

mind you.. might be useful to have a couple of legendary dwarves do that... do they get unhappy though...

[Zaratustra]

Ooh. Can we have traps with buckets of lye?

[karnot]

Same problem here, have some buckets with lye laying around the ashery, and 30+ procrastinating dwarves, of which 10-some are peasant haulers.

[Aquillion]

quote:Originally posted by Zaratustra:
<STRONG>Ooh. Can we have traps with buckets of lye?</STRONG>

Hmm.  If we could mine sulfur and saltpeter, we could produce sulfuric acid for use in traps...  not to mention bombs...  And both can be useful for producing fertilizers, too.

[qalnor]

quote:Originally posted by Aquillion:
<STRONG>Hmm.  If we could mine sulfur and saltpeter, we could produce sulfuric acid for use in traps...  not to mention bombs...  And both can be useful for producing fertilizers, too.</STRONG>

Sounds like someone wants to get put on the terrist watch list.