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Archereon

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Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« on: January 25, 2012, 06:55:02 pm »
This has a problem that has cost me numerous forts, and would have cost me even more had dwarf fortress not crashed on me and forced a savescum: How do I get dwarves to remove those twenty pairs of socks lying around in the door from when a goblin died there? They have dump designations and everything, and aren't forbidden!!!
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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2012, 07:04:51 pm »
Do you have a garbage zone designated?
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Archereon

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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2012, 07:10:38 pm »
Yep, several. And I frequently have 10+ idlers.
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Quote from: Azrayel on July 10, 2014, 09:13:11 pm
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But the sad truth charlie?
It was inevitable.

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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2012, 07:16:20 pm »
Are the items owned by a dwarf?
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Babylon

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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2012, 07:42:38 pm »
might need to use cleanowned to make it so that they are no longer the property of anyone.  Although admittedly that's cheating.
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Archereon

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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2012, 07:57:54 pm »
How do I find out who owns it?

Maybe if I assigned them a room they'd move their shit there.
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Quote from: Azrayel on July 10, 2014, 09:13:11 pm
I want to tell you they were bad men, cephalo.  I want to tell you that with a better overseer the Fortress never would've gotten so bad someone would get offed in a pointless fisticuffs.
But the sad truth charlie?
It was inevitable.

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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2012, 03:55:13 am »
Quote from: Archereon on January 25, 2012, 07:57:54 pm
How do I find out who owns it?
Loo(k) at it and press Enter.
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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2012, 04:08:40 am »
Is it quicker to deconstruct the door and rebuild it?  Would the dwarves move the socks out of the way or complain that there was no room for the door?
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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2012, 06:00:05 am »
knowing DF, probably the last
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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2012, 06:25:40 am »
they are most likely forbidden if they came from gobbos. also check 'o'ptions / 'F'orbidden, this wont change the current pile of junk, but will take effect for the next siege.

edit: 'and they are not forbidden' - missed that. disregard.
« Last Edit: January 26, 2012, 06:41:05 am by aepurniet »
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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2012, 07:39:16 am »
Quote from: aepurniet on January 26, 2012, 06:25:40 am
they are most likely forbidden if they came from gobbos. also check 'o'ptions / 'F'orbidden, this wont change the current pile of junk, but will take effect for the next siege.

edit: 'and they are not forbidden' - missed that. disregard.

Well, in fact, not forbidding the gobbo stuff is a very good way to have assorted junk lying on th battlefield forever because it has been claimed by some children...
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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2012, 09:55:34 am »
It is quite possible that the socks are owned property of some dwarf.  Give every dwarf one or more cabinets in their bedrooms and they should eventually put the socks away, assuming the socks are not forbidden.

This is why I use raising drawbridges for emergency defend-the-fortress gates.  Any stray objects or small creatures in the way get smashed.
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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2012, 10:06:30 am »
Or occasionally dorfs. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. After all, accidents do happen. ;)
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Re: Getting dwarves to unjam doors.
« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2012, 03:03:39 pm »
When I had problems with this, designating it for dumping never worked.  I try claiming the items and the dwarfs went on their merry way moving them somewhere... I naively thought they were stockpiling the stuff.

Guess that explains why there's clothing lying all over the floor of some of the bedrooms.  Time to build more cabinets.  Or ignore it.
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