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[Bohandas]

Why the hell are dwarves dropping food items in my barracks and leaving them to rot (and then refusing to dump it)? This is really weird. There's plenty of space available in stockpiles, so that's not the problem. And its only in the barracks... Could it have something to do with orders for my military to carry food? I told them to carry it, not throw it on the floor.

Has anybody else seen this behavior?

[Krelos]

Yeah, it's a buggy thing, that.

The only way to avoid it that I know of is to order your squads to carry no food.
Which really isn't that bad, since another bug prevents dwarves on active duty (other than training) from eating or drinking their carried supplies anyway.

[proxn_punkd]

Step 1) Check to make sure no active miners/woodcutters/hunters are in your army. They have a hidden "civilian uniform" that can conflict with a military uniform.

Step 2) Ensure everybody has backpacks to stash their food in.

Step 3) Ensure everybody has containers to stash their food in.

Step 4)

Step 5) Tidy!!!

... if not you have a bug. Sorry.

[Torgan]

Why the hell are dwarves dropping food items in my barracks and leaving them to rot (and then refusing to dump it)? This is really weird. There's plenty of space available in stockpiles, so that's not the problem. And its only in the barracks... Could it have something to do with orders for my military to carry food? I told them to carry it, not throw it on the floor.

Has anybody else seen this behavior?

I think they throw it on the floor as they sense more awesome food in your fort and decide to carry that instead.  Same thing with how they know there is better gear around to use.

Easiest thing to do as Krelos said is to tell your squads to carry no food.  I've never had my military starve to death because of it.  Flasks and drink seem to work fine.

[foop]

Which really isn't that bad, since another bug prevents dwarves on active duty (other than training) from eating or drinking their carried supplies anyway.

I think this bug may have been fixed.  My military dwarves will eat when stationed outside the fort.  They then drop the plump helmet spawn on the ground.  Idle dwarves rush outside to pick up the seeds, falling foul of whatever menace my dwarves were stationed out there to deal with.

Must set up civilian alert burrows.

[Quietust]

Step 1) Check to make sure no active miners/woodcutters/hunters are in your army. They have a hidden "civilian uniform" that can conflict with a military uniform.

In all likelihood, this is the problem - when a soldier decides to switch to the mining/woodcutting/hunting "uniform", any equipped backpack will be dropped on the floor along with any food contained therein, and even when the dwarf acquires another backpack, the food will simply be left to rot (or eventually be stored in a chest or cabinet in the dwarf's room).