Pawns won't load my mortars; keep stock piling shells in wrong areas

[Prince of Presence]

I'm playing the game in vanilla. I have to say that dealing with mortars is EXTREMELY frustrating in vanilla.

I built a few mortars and some shells. My pawns ended up stock piling my shells where I usually stockpile my stuff, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥'s now completely impossible for them to stockpile them near my mortars even after I setup a critical stockpile zone near my mortar and disallowed all weapons in the stockpile zone.

What also really pisses me off is that in the stockpile menu there isn't even an option to stockpile shells.

Anyone have any solutions that don't involve mods? I want to at least get 50 hours out of this game in vanilla before I start using mods. I've been doing fine so far, but the handling of the shells is just infuriating.

[AlexMBrennan]

after I setup a critical stockpile zone near my mortar and disallowed all weapons in the stockpile zone.

Mortar shells are manufactured items not weapons, so obviously your incorrectly configured stockpile cannot work.

What also really pisses me off is that in the stockpile menu there isn't even an option to stockpile shells.

Look in the "Manufactured" item category.

[Monoxide]

If you are not using mods, my assumption would be you have something wonky set in your stockpiles and your pawns are just following orders.

I would try building some shelves near your mortars, set the shelves to be critical, and to accept only shells. If youre shells are still being stored elsewhere, make sure you turn shells OFF in that stockpile. You said "disallowed all weapons" - make sure you check for mortar shells, not weapons, as they are not classified as weapons.

Now, if you have no mods, it may take a while for your pawns to move them from pile 1 to the shelves. Two things you can do here, 1) set a bunch of people to hauling set to 1 for a while and get everything scheduled moved quickly, or 2) make a new shell at a bench to see where they move it to.

Under step 2:
If they move the new shell to the shelf, problem solved. If they move it to a stockpile, make sure THAT stock pile has shells off. If they move it to the pile you already had and turned off, you may have a glitch of some sort.

[M.K.]

Originally posted by Prince of Presence:

What also really pisses me off is that in the stockpile menu there isn't even an option to stockpile shells.

That would also piss me of, bigtime, as mortars are normally to be found in the stockpile menu under Manufactured-Shells

You must have a mod that changed the stockpile options, i guess?