The Official Dwarf Fortress Thread

[hazzor]

what are you supposed to do with the eleven trillion rocks that end up lying around in your fort, make enormous stockpiles (in itself creating more rocks)or make vast walls in a desperate attempt to use them?

[shotgunn902]

Quantum stock pile

Make zone for gabage (only has to be 1 tile)

Its either q or k and you can go over to rocks and press D to dump

Do this fo all the rocks but dont over occupy them with hauling

When you want them back delete the zone and reclaim them with the same kind of method you used to dump

[TeckXKnight]

Many people utilize garbage disposals to get rid of the rocks as it is inevitable that you get way too much. A garbage disposal is a dump zone on a bridge that retracts and drops the stone into the lava. Draw bridges also work as when they lower, they crush whatever is underneath them as long as it's not mighty enough to deconstruct the bridge.

[Sevenless]

Many people utilize garbage disposals to get rid of the rocks as it is inevitable that you get way too much. A garbage disposal is a dump zone on a bridge that retracts and drops the stone into the lava. Draw bridges also work as when they lower, they crush whatever is underneath them as long as it's not mighty enough to deconstruct the bridge.

I'm able to create an efficient enough fortress that I often have labour to spare. Spamming and boxing rock crafts isn't a bad way to generate trade value and deal with the rocks. At least you don't have to manually toggle them for hauling that way.

[WarpedWiseMan]

what are you supposed to do with the eleven trillion rocks that end up lying around in your fort, make enormous stockpiles (in itself creating more rocks)or make vast walls in a desperate attempt to use them?

I liked to build elaborate outdoor cathedrals and castles with all the excess stone. Or coffins. You can never have too many coffins in Dwarf Fortress.

There used to be a utility program called Rubless that let you destroy all non-flux extraneous stone, but I'm not sure if it is compatible with the current version.

[shotgunn902]

I just quantum pile and reclaim for stone crafts

[MagicManICT]

Or coffins. You can never have too many coffins in Dwarf Fortress.

Yeah, you can have too many coffins. Coffins are useless when all your dorfs are dead from a goblin siege because they spent all their time making coffins instead of training for the army.

Hazzor:

To mass dump rocks: (d)esignate->set (b)uilding/item properties->(d)ump

After your dwarves get done with all the hauling: (d)->(b)->(c)laim your single tile garbage dump. Feel free to move it around where you need the stone at. I tend to use larger stockpiles near my workshops instead of doing this, but it's useful for places where you don't have much room.

[WarpedWiseMan]

Hauling jobs for stones are a waste of dwarfs and FPS. Use DFHack and use the DUMP function to quantum store every extra stone until a use is needed.

[Horatius]

The next version will include wheelbarrows and the gathering of multiple items by a single dwarf. Hopefully that will speed up hauling jobs a lot so that the player does not have to resort to mods anymore to get the job done in an acceptable amount of time (which is of course still fine though if the player choses to do so).

[wickerman_156]

I've stuck with .34.06 so far. There are only a few minor (what I consider minor) bug fixes in .07 that are relatively avoidable, anyway.

Just thought I'd say you can update to .07 without any problems, just download latest release and transfer your saves to that folder.