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[Zeebie]

What happens if I have a dwarf assigned to burrow A, but then I set the civilian alert to restrict everyone to the non-overlapping burrow B?

[Sphalerite]

Civilian alerts override normal burrow assignments.  When the alert is active, he'll be limited to burrow B, and not restricted by burrow A at all.

[Zeebie]

Civilian alerts override normal burrow assignments.  When the alert is active, he'll be limited to burrow B, and not restricted by burrow A at all.

Thank you sir!

[peskyninja]

There's no way of creating some kind of restrictive or exclusive burrow?

[Starver]

There's no way of creating some kind of restrictive or exclusive burrow?

An anti-burrow?  ("All those so assigned, do not take any job[1] within this area!")  No.  You can only make 'inclusive' burrows, and (alerts aside, I must admit I've never used them) the sum total areas of all burrows a dwarf is assigned to is their stomping ground when it comes to finding things to take things from/take things to/do things with in.  Unless they aren't assigned to any burrows, in which case it's the entire accessible map.

(I'd rather like a "If other burrows are assigned, add this one, but don't bother otherwise" method, actually.  Easier than either adding in the relative sleeping/sustenance areas to each and every work-related burrow or setting up sleeping/sustenance burrows but also remembering to activate them/de-activate for dwarfs as I start adding them to other burrows/remove the, from their final work-burrow.  I could see it being a tag in the relevant assignment screen (usual enter to toggle, but another key used to qualify for such a "but only if...").  Either that or tag the whole burrow as such for everyone, but my original suggestion gives one a way to exert fine control (e.g. keeping some workers only in their workshop areas, dissuading them from seeking sustenance while an emergency job needs doing), and there's plenty of unused space/key-bindings in the burrow-assignment screen.  It would also allow such anti-burrow assignments as I think are being asked about.)


[1] Noting that burrows only affect job end-points, not any desired traversal between them.

[khearn]

It's not hard to make a burrow that covers everything, then remove some areas from it. You can just hold '<' until you are at the top of the map, then move to one corner and hit enter. Then hit '>' until you are at the bottom level, move to the opposite corner and hit enter again. Now you have a burrow that covers the entire embark. Now hit 'r' and start defining rectangles that are not in your burrow. You now have a burrow that only keeps dwarves from using stuff in those areas.

Note that they might still pass through those areas on the way to get to things or places that they are allowed to. A burrow doesn't say "stay only in this area". A burrow says "only use items in this area and only do jobs in this area". But a dwarf will freely leave a burrow if that's what is needed to get to an item or place that is in another part of the burrow.

[Garath]

is beekeeping bugged for burrows? several times i had a beekeeper walk out of the fort during an attack to collect a colony. In fact, they seem to prefer to get a new colony instead of splitting the one right next to it

[i2amroy]

is beekeeping bugged for burrows? several times i had a beekeeper walk out of the fort during an attack to collect a colony. In fact, they seem to prefer to get a new colony instead of splitting the one right next to it

Beekeeping is sort of overally bugged at the moment. There are several problems with it right now, so this could be a potentially known bug.