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0000086Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Stockpilespublic2010-11-11 14:10
Reporteraepurniet Assigned ToToady One  
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Fixed in Version0.31.07 
Summary0000086: "Take from stockpile" doesn't work, results in dwarves standing around looking confused
Descriptionwhen setting one stockpile to take from another, dwarves will walk over to the item in question (that needs to be moved), not pick it up, then continue on to the next job on their list.
TagsAI, hauling, stockpile

Relationships

parent of 0001216 closedToady One "take from stockpile" will not move items out of barrels/bins 
has duplicate 0000173 closeduser6 Unable to take from a refuse pile 
has duplicate 0000421 closeduser6 The stockpile 'take from a pile' is broken 
has duplicate 0000426 closeduser6 Take from stockpile bugged 
has duplicate 0001147 closeduser6 Dwarfs running around stockpile mumbling "Store Item in Stockpile", imitating business, but doing nothing useful 
has duplicate 0001328 closeduser6 Taking from stockpile makes dwarves hang up 
has duplicate 0001392 closeduser6 removing allowed items from stockpile causes haulage jobs in progress to freeze. 
has duplicate 0001723 closeduser6 Dwarves fail to move prepared meals from one stockpile to another 

Activities

DoctorZuber

2010-04-01 20:46

reporter   ~0000085

Quickly verified using a pair of wood stockpiles. The dwarves will move to the object, think about it for a few frames, and then cancel the job without moving the object. They will do this repeatedly, so setting take from stockpile not only doesn't work, it wastes labor like crazy.

Dae

2010-04-02 13:06

reporter   ~0000277

Confirmed, they juste dance around the stockpile, as if once there they thought their mission complete.
Moreover, if you set a stockpile to take from 2 different stockpiles, dwarves will dance between the two stockpiles, without doing anything

Peewee

2010-04-02 17:36

reporter   ~0000344

Confirmed with a seed stockpile taking from a main food stockpile.

oliver

2010-04-03 18:01

reporter   ~0000731

Dwarves will move barrels correctly using take-from (tested with food barrels).
Other stuff is broken.

Spreggo

2010-04-04 15:31

reporter   ~0000940

Last edited: 2010-04-04 15:31

I didn't test with food barrels, but this issue was apparent when moving empty barrels between 2 or more piles.

Steely Glint

2010-04-04 16:38

reporter   ~0000955

I don't believe it's completely correct to say they do nothing. When I looked at this problem step-by-step, they actually do pick up the item (logs in my case) for at least one frame.

Michiro

2010-04-04 17:57

reporter   ~0000964

Observed with furniture and wood stockpiles, food seems to work at least some of the time.

OzoneGrif

2010-04-06 12:53

reporter   ~0001558

Confirmed with Stones and Food barrels.
With the order "Take from another pile", dwarves start dancing around.

Squirrelloid

2010-04-07 00:18

reporter   ~0001697

I've had dwarves move meat with take from stockpile. I've also had them move booze and plants. The meat and plants may have been by barrel. However, cooked meals (which i never put in barrels) lead to a dwarf picking up one serving and then dropping it, repeatedly.

derigo

2010-04-07 19:28

reporter   ~0001912

it also happens with seeds

mschamis

2010-04-11 09:53

reporter   ~0002823

In addition the dwarves also don't seem to recognize some items in stockpiles for jobs. They utterly refused to get bituminous coal out of a stockpile to be smelted into coke. It was not forbidden and the stockpile was directly next to the smelter. Eventually I mined some more and they used that (when they pathed at all).

kaefermelder

2010-04-14 11:06

reporter   ~0003518

I only have tried this with refuse stockpiles, but in any case I got the same behaviour.

king doom

2010-04-19 12:22

reporter   ~0004259

It seems like dwarves don't like taking stuff from stockpiles much at all right now. I had a caravan come, I bought about 600 sea nettle jellyfish (It was dirt cheap, okay?) and it was all moved into my food stockpile, filling it totally. When I had enough barrels made to shift the stuff into, the dwarves just sat around the meeting hall and left it on the floor of the stockpile. I had to make smaller stockpiles and the dwarves would only put the jellyfish into barrels in the smaller stockpiles. These were default stockpiles, barrels not forbidden or in a burrow or etcetera.

Misterstone

2010-04-22 19:41

reporter   ~0004663

My dwarves are doing the take from stockpile dance right now as well. They go out to the "take from" stockpile and run back to the "take to" stockpile. Problem is, they don't pick anything up! In my case, it is unprepared fish, which they are ordered to take to a stockpile near the fish processing workshop.

I'll make a copy of my save and keep it somewhere in case you guys want it.

estokien

2010-04-23 15:07

reporter   ~0004785

This officially killed one of my dwarves. Due to the multiple mayor bug a mandate got made by a former mayor that didn't appear on the nobles screen, but the metalsmith wound up in violation of it and was sent to the stocks. I had a nice area set up with a restraint, bed, prepared foods stockpile and drink stockpile, but because it couldn't do a proper take from setup, the drinks weren't stocked fast enough and he died of thirst in a fortress with over 900 units of drinks. Without this working properly, the only way to manage item locations is with dump assignments or removing full stockpiles.

Myxine

2010-04-25 16:27

reporter   ~0005055

Taking from food stockpiles seems to work fine for me, taking from a furniture stockpile ends up with a bunch of dwarves walking back and forth going "?" endlessly.

crossmr

2010-05-05 06:50

reporter   ~0006167

Also confirmed. I had 2 wood stockpiles set up, they just wandered back and forth doing nothing.

Areyar

2010-05-13 04:42

reporter   ~0006635

This does not always happen, I just noticed in an older fort that I had set up several woodland collection stockpiles being taken from by a central pile.
All was being hauled wonderfully, until I decided to delete an outlying stockpile.
After that I noticed confused dwarfs collecting at the receiving pile.

In another fortress (see duplicate 0001392) it appeared to be caused by altering the allowed goods in involved piles, but I don't remember if I did not in fact delete a stockpile as well.

GusSmedstad

2010-05-15 09:49

reporter   ~0006726

Taking food seems to work, but taking stone (i.e. Coal) results in the back-and-forth shuffle, where the dwarf goes to the source pile and then cancels the job repeatedly.

swuboo

2010-05-28 22:49

reporter   ~0007459

The jobs generated by this bug are apparently quite high priority; it took me several hours in .01 to figure out why I couldn't build a forge... the anvil was continuously tasked take-from stockpiles jobs.

Toady One

2010-06-12 02:58

administrator   ~0008186

This has been fixed for 0.31.07. At least my tests have checked out. There are a number of permutations, and on a long journey where a dwarf ends up cancelling the job by confused through pathing or whatever, they might end up returning the item. I didn't see that happen though.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2010-04-01 20:33 aepurniet New Issue
2010-04-01 20:46 DoctorZuber Note Added: 0000085
2010-04-02 06:34 Todestool Tag Attached: stockpile
2010-04-02 13:06 Dae Note Added: 0000277
2010-04-02 17:36 Peewee Note Added: 0000344
2010-04-02 17:36 Peewee Tag Attached: pathfinding
2010-04-02 17:36 Peewee Tag Detached: pathfinding
2010-04-03 10:11 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0000173
2010-04-03 18:01 oliver Note Added: 0000731
2010-04-04 15:02 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0000421
2010-04-04 15:31 Spreggo Note Added: 0000940
2010-04-04 15:31 Spreggo Note Edited: 0000940
2010-04-04 16:38 Steely Glint Note Added: 0000955
2010-04-04 17:57 Michiro Note Added: 0000964
2010-04-05 00:18 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0000426
2010-04-06 12:50 user6 Sticky Issue No => Yes
2010-04-06 12:53 OzoneGrif Note Added: 0001558
2010-04-07 00:18 Squirrelloid Note Added: 0001697
2010-04-07 19:28 derigo Note Added: 0001912
2010-04-11 09:53 mschamis Note Added: 0002823
2010-04-14 09:06 user6 Summary take from stockpile doesnt work => "Take from stockpile" results in dwarves standing around looking confused
2010-04-14 09:06 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0001147
2010-04-14 11:06 kaefermelder Note Added: 0003518
2010-04-16 01:01 user6 Relationship added parent of 0001216
2010-04-19 02:52 ToXey Tag Attached: AI
2010-04-19 02:53 ToXey Tag Attached: hauling
2010-04-19 09:32 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0001328
2010-04-19 12:22 king doom Note Added: 0004259
2010-04-19 13:56 user6 Summary "Take from stockpile" results in dwarves standing around looking confused => "Take from stockpile" doesn't work, results in dwarves standing around looking confused
2010-04-22 19:41 Misterstone Note Added: 0004663
2010-04-23 15:07 estokien Note Added: 0004785
2010-04-24 11:16 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0001392
2010-04-25 16:27 Myxine Note Added: 0005055
2010-04-28 14:10 user6 Category General => Dwarf Mode -- Stockpiles
2010-05-03 14:25 user6 Relationship added has duplicate 0001723
2010-05-05 06:50 crossmr Note Added: 0006167
2010-05-13 04:42 Areyar Note Added: 0006635
2010-05-15 09:49 GusSmedstad Note Added: 0006726
2010-05-28 22:49 swuboo Note Added: 0007459
2010-06-12 02:58 Toady One Note Added: 0008186
2010-06-12 02:58 Toady One Status new => resolved
2010-06-12 02:58 Toady One Fixed in Version => 0.31.07
2010-06-12 02:58 Toady One Resolution open => fixed
2010-06-12 02:58 Toady One Assigned To => Toady One
2010-06-12 21:05 user6 Sticky Issue Yes => No