Gathering items off the floor?

[Vorshin]

I have metals, stones made items dropped items from kills but alas i have not figured out how in the hell to have them picked up and put in chests that i have placed (so far these have remained consistantly empty) and right now i find them absolutly pointloess and useless.

I have even made 2 storage housing's and these also are remaining totally and utterly unused, the only storage that are used is when you make items, but alas once these are filled everything else is just thrown onto the floor, once here they are NEVER moved to any storage or chest but rather left there (like everything else).

So obviously i am missing something, doing something wrong or this whole build a storage chest or storage room is pointless and worthless not to mention utterly useless.

[becephalus]

The dwarves need to be out of other stuff do do, or you need to change the priorities around. Hauling stuff off floor is default pretty low priority I think.

[Vorshin]

well i have them all stood around idle even though there is stuff on the floor, one would have expected them to clear stuff up rather than stand doing nothing and i havent changed nothing cos i dont understand how setting all that stuff up works, previous game i tried and they didnt do squat afterwards

[Angelo Dante]

Maybe this will help you out:

Make sure the filter settings on the chest/storeroom are set to allow the items you want to store.
Make sure the checkbox is toggled to accept items from the ground.
Look in the job broker tab and set one or two dwarves to only be allowed to do hauling.
On the hauling task icon itself, you can click the +/- to increase or decrease the number of dwarves that can do that type of task at one time.

[Vorshin]

ok will try that

[brian7772]

Set the storages to "high" in priority and the dwarves will fill them first. They are defaulted to "low" so will only get done after other jobs.

For instance I have a storage I use basically for lair loot that stays on low until its time to raid a lair. Then its set on high so the dwarves all fill their inventories before heading back up.

[Vorshin]

they didnt do squat i set 2 to just hauling and upped the storages to medium (from low priority). when i go back in game will set to high

[WarpQueen]

Originally posted by Vorshin:

they didnt do squat i set 2 to just hauling and upped the storages to medium (from low priority). when i go back in game will set to high

If you cant get this to work, you can send me a save game at @[e-mail] and I can take a look. Just link to this discussion so I'll know whats up.

[dbzvelena]

When you start a game, build 4 boxes, click filter, check all, check off take items from inventory. (so they don't over fill your boxes with stuff from crafting rooms) and set it to normal priority.
Low priority means, only otherwise bored dwarves will pick up after them selves.
Normal priority means, dwarves pick up what they encounter if they have room in their pockets.
High priority means dwarves will go down dark shafts for that one mushroom that they just have to have, never mind that they'll get stuck otherwise.

Also, as soon as you can, get the storage room, it works same way as boxes but has 600 instead of 30 slots of space.

Its smart to let all dwarves be able to haul stuff. this way you keep a neat and clean home.

[Vorshin]

@dbzvelena i built just 2 chests and 2 storerooms. I unchecked take items from inventory but left the other as was. I set priority to medium and with tasks (i take it when opening the task it lists down i unchecked all on 1 dwarf bar hauling and only had haul on 1 other (left everything else as checked) the 1 dwarf just decided to stand there and do didly squat (the 1 i had unchecked everything on except haul).

Anyways going to try the other suggestion and put him on high priority see if that works but not been in game since (today was catching up on Genshin) yesterday been checking out Valheim (this is a nice game with many idea's but still has issue's so isnt perfect) BUT i like features that building a house, having a fire in there does require a chimney or else ytou will get smoke aphixiated.

I have also yet to finish off my game on Volcanoids.

[SoRational]

15 min and I've deleted the game. It's a disaster. I spent 15 min just to figure out how to loot stuff and it's still not working correctly.

[Dev3ko]

Originally posted by SoRational:

15 min and I've deleted the game. It's a disaster. I spent 15 min just to figure out how to loot stuff and it's still not working correctly.

It works good dude. But you need basic knowlage about game. It's just game is no more supported by devs. And it's in bad state.