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[Zaratustra]

One more for you. Dwarves are happily ignoring the stockpile two steps away from them, instead taking shirts and shoes to stockpiles four screens away. It seems they favor bins to piles, no matter where said bins are.

[ September 07, 2006: Message edited by: Zaratustra ]

[Rollory]

Yeah, they do the same with food and barrels.  If there is a container to put the item in, they will go get it, wherever it is, and then and only then will a dwarf possibly get tasked with moving the container to the pile.  This means a lot of trekking back and forth, particularly after a bin has been filled with items and is heavy.

A better behavior would have them prioritizing as follows:
1) if there is a bin in the nearest appropriate stockpile type with free space, put it in there;
2) else, put it in the nearest appropriate stockpile type,
3) if there are unbinned items in a stockpile, and a free bin somewhere, get the bin and put it in the stockpile.

But, the main thing: don't put things in bins that aren't in stockpiles.

That would cut down on a lot of the wandering all over the map.

[bbb]

funniest thing is that they like to move the barrels/bin in the furniture pile.. when they are FULL

which takes ages compared to a pretty much empty bin/barrel.

[SquidDNA]

I just noticed this-- dwarves will haul trap components all the way from the forge to the central weapon pile instead of the one right next to the forge just because the central one has a bin. Maybe check "container storage?" against the number of nearby unfilled stockpile squares. If there's 25% free stockpile storage nearby (or perhaps even set by the user) then dwarves will begin "packing it down."

[Maximus]

Fortunately this behavior can now be massaged by customizing stockpile settings.

Ahh, what a great feature.

[axus]

yeah, and "Take from a stockpile" feature actually works, so you can move everything from the pile that has a bin to your better one.  Or you could change the piles to be mutually exclusive

[Chthon]

The dwarves will even use a bin/barrel in my experience when there is no bin/barrel available in an appropriate stockpile, but one with the same category of item enabled, but not the item in question, if it has a bin, the item goes there, even though it's not supposed to.

For example, I have a stockpile for coal, I have a stockpile for finished bars.  My finished bars is set to refuse coal, but I still find coal in it on occasion...  This irritates me as I consider it a waste as my stockpile for coal is HUGE, and I only make bars when I wish to make something (just in case really)

[Toady One]

Wait, I'm confused now because this thread from two months ago was resurrected for a bug report and an AI suggestion...  Chthon, do you know how the coal go there?  Did the pile claim a bin with coal in it, or did they bring coal to a bin sitting in a pile that doesn't want coal?