Requires Empty Food Storage Item

[JCG]

I can't get anyone to brew drinks. If I want to Brew Drink from Fruit/Plant it always says "[Requires Empty Food Storage Item]"

I have a stockpile with empty barrels sitting right next to the Still. What am I doing wrong?

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-The barrel is definitely empty
-There are multiple empty barrels in the stockpile near the workshop
-I tried linking the stockpile explicitly to the workshop
-If I make another Still on a different level, next to the Carpenter (who is making barrels with an adjacent furniture stockpile), I can brew drinks from fruit/plants there... I don't get why that one works while the one downstairs, with has a stockpile with empty barrels right next to the still doesn't work.

[WilliamsPlhc]

Try to erase the stock and meke another one? Also, make rock jugs (they are barrels made of rock).

[Gerustroncio]

Check whether or not the still is linked to a particular stockpile, might have happened by mistake.

Also make sure you have at least one stockpile with drinks enabled, enabling a stockpile for "food" should have drinks on by default

[JCG]

Yeah searching around I read about rock jugs and started producing them.

There was then an empty rock jug and empty wooden barrel stored next to the downstairs Still, and this time I could make some brew for whatever reason.

The Brewdwarf came down, took the rock jug and brewed some alcohol, then he continued to take the empty barrels that it previously didn't seem to recognise and use them this time.

Not sure why it activated now, or if some other variable somewhere affected it.

Aside from this struggle, really enjoying the game, impressive effort to bring this gem to the masses.

[Hyperspace Otter]

I couldn't make anything at my stills until I assigned a bookkeeper and built them an office.

[Vis]

I tried everything said here and still get the same message when brewing as the OP. No idea, people dying of dehydration because they apparently can't see the 1000 empty barrels / rock jugs / pots or whatever else I already made to figure this out.

I also got the message before that the plants are supposedly rotten, even though I just gathered them. And of course a bit after the game crashed, lol.

When people said losing is fun I wasn't expecting to lose this way. x) Idk maybe I'll wait for fixes or something because this certainly isn't very fun.

[πｮmrυﾔ]

same problem , it was working smooth but that started yesterday.. there was even no patch.. how can we fix it

[Cytanger]

Same problem here.

[JCG]

Sorry, should have come back sooner but I did seem to figure this one out.. sorta

I had an empty stockpile near the Still designated for barrels but the Dwarfs weren't transporting any there. The issue was that I had the stockpile set to "Furniture" and then under custom, "type" had only barrels selected, but I also had not selected any of the materials (stone/clay, metal, etc). I selected everything for those, and FINALLY they started moving empty barrels there.

Once that happened, the "Requires Empty Food Storage Item" disappeared and now I have over 100 drinks in stock.

My best guess is that "Requires Empty Food Storage Item" actually mean "Requires Nearby Empty Food Storage Item," or possibly at least on the same floor. Because I was getting this issue when I had a ton of empty barrels in another stockpile a floor up, but once I got the Dwarfs to properly deposit barrels in the stockpile next to the Still, it started working and I was swimming in sweet, sweet booze.

That said, I did have a couple of empty barrels in the Stockpile initially, and still had the issue. But for whatever reason, once I changed the custom settings for the stockpile to properly fill it with empty barrels, the issue went away. Hopefully that helps at least someone!

[Cytanger]

Originally posted by JCG:

Sorry, should have come back sooner but I did seem to figure this one out.. sorta

My best guess is that "Requires Empty Food Storage Item" actually mean "Requires Nearby Empty Food Storage Item," or possibly at least on the same floor. Because I was getting this issue when I had a ton of empty barrels in another stockpile a floor up, but once I got the Dwarfs to properly deposit barrels in the stockpile next to the Still, it started working and I was swimming in sweet, sweet booze.

If it works it works. But I have never had issues with workshops pulling from far off stockpiles. Given what you said it sounds like you had a linked stockpile situation. Where the configuration of the linked stockpile was creating the issue.

Again, if it it works great, but I have had this issue when the stills are set to take from anywhere and empty barrels are available. Something about this problem makes me think that there is a deeper error. Maybe there is a way to clear it, but I still think there is a deeper bug.

[kheftel]

Stockpiles can also reserve empty barrels for themselves. The old version had a place where you could reserve a certain number of barrels to be available globally for things like drinks, maybe that'll come back

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by kheftel:

Stockpiles can also reserve empty barrels for themselves. The old version had a place where you could reserve a certain number of barrels to be available globally for things like drinks, maybe that'll come back

That is in and has been from first day on Steam.

[Goatseface Killah]

The catch is you can't use the same linked stockpile for input and output, so the spare barrel won't get used. Unless I've just been doing something wrong. But yeah, if a stockpile setting has a section for material and quality you'll want to enable all relevant types. I've also got a furniture stockpile of barrels and pots feeding my still and kitchen and it works just dandy.