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[Syncing]

Hey there,

As the title says, can I force one or two dwarfs to haul the garbage to the garbage zone? Because when I mark rat remains inside the fortress, e.g. in the meeting hall, one dwarf cleans it up (nearly instantly), but if I mark rat remains outside the fortress like near my walls or fortifications they nearly never do it.
Same thing with corpses. I had a goblin ambush and some of their corpses began to rot. I have a refuse/corpses stockpiles too, but my dorfs barely bring the corpses to it.

Thanks in advance
~Sync

[Aachen]

[ o ] rders menu.  [ r ] efuse settings. [ o ] and/or [ v ] to toggle refuse outside, and vermin remains.

Have you configured these rules?

[Syncing]

Hey thanks, I'm gonna try it. I'm not that experienced, so I didn't even know that menu exists 

~Sync

[Garath]

there's also something there in F(orbid), claim used amunition. Lets you collect amunition used by your hunters

[Aachen]

Although all of that ammunition will be in one-bolt stacks. Which will generate a lot of jobs when those stacks are gathered. I prefer to do periodic sweeps using mass-dumping. Fairly quick, if one uses the stocks screen to mark the spent bolts/arrows.

[Finn]

Although all of that ammunition will be in one-bolt stacks. Which will generate a lot of jobs when those stacks are gathered. I prefer to do periodic sweeps using mass-dumping. Fairly quick, if one uses the stocks screen to mark the spent bolts/arrows.

Can you elaborate?  I understand the problem that spent bolts are in one-bolt stacks, but what is your solution to consolodate them again?

[Aachen]

O, I don't mean to imply that they are gathered into stacks or anything of that sort. Once they're all gathered in one place, though, the spent shot can be fairly quickly melted down. The fate of wooden and bone stuff depends on my mood; it can be forwarded to a destruction area, or left as a "training exercise" for the marksdwarves.

[khearn]

A dwarf will put multiple stacks of bolts in a quiver, so the singletons can be used. I've read that an earlier version had a bug that only let dwarves put one stack in a quiver, so stacks of one were a problem. They'd "fill" their quiver with one bolt, run off to the battle, fire one bolt, then either charge into battle swinging their xbow, or else run back to refill their quiver (probably with just one bolt again).

The problem now with single bolts is that each bolt is a "Store item in stockpile" job, so it's a lot of hauling. And it's almost certainly hauling in a potentially dangerous place (or else why would bolts have been fired there?).

I leave used ammunition forbidden in the options (It's the default, but can be changed with o-F-p) and when I'm fairly certain that no threats are around, I'll claim them with d-b-c. But there is always the danger that a bunch of haulers will fan out to get the bolts and an ambush will uncloak between them and the fort's entrance. Been there, done that, lost haulers.

Fortunately, haulers are a renewable resource.