Dwarves won't use barrels for drinks

[FennecFyre]

I've had an ongoing problem with low drink stocks, and often when I try to brew drinks the game complains that there's no empty storage items available. I've got two barrels sitting in my carpenter's workshop that's linked to give to the stockpile, and a still set to take from the stockpile, but nobody will move those barrels where they need to go and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

[Arcanua]

Are you certain these barrels don't already have something in them? They kinda made that hard to check now which is really annoying @.@;;;

[The Former]

Either they have something in them and it's not clear by the sprite, or they've been designated for storage by another preparation job already.

The solution for me is to set up a work bill at the carpenter's shop that crafts four barrels daily if the amount of available empty barrels is less than 1. This ensures I always have a cushion of around 4 empty barrels.

[FennecFyre]

Originally posted by Arcanua:

Are you certain these barrels don't already have something in them? They kinda made that hard to check now which is really annoying @.@;;;

They're empty as far as I can tell, they're still sitting in the same workshop they were made in.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by Arcanua:

Are you certain these barrels don't already have something in them? They kinda made that hard to check now which is really annoying @.@;;;

Ok, so it's hard to notice at first when you aren't looking for it, but you can tell at a glance if a barrel has something in it or not. If they're empty then the top of the barrel is open and if it isn't then the barrel is sealed shut. Just look for yourself.

Edit: This goes for all containers btw. Bins, armor stands, weapon wracks etc.

[Arcanua]

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

Originally posted by Arcanua:

Are you certain these barrels don't already have something in them? They kinda made that hard to check now which is really annoying @.@;;;

Ok, so it's hard to notice at first when you aren't looking for it, but you can tell at a glance if a barrel has something in it or not. If they're empty then the top of the barrel is open and if it isn't then the barrel is sealed shut. Just look for yourself.

Edit: This goes for all containers btw. Bins, armor stands, weapon wracks etc.

No I've got a few that have such a small amount in them they don't look filled. I am well aware you could look at them and tell but even bins I have the same thing happen. If it has say 1 cloth it looks empty...if it has like 4 or more/filled then yes I can tell by just looking right at it.

[Evilmasteryoda]

Have you set the Still to take from a stockpile or for the stockpile to give to a workshop, doing so prevents it from taking from others.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by Arcanua:

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

Ok, so it's hard to notice at first when you aren't looking for it, but you can tell at a glance if a barrel has something in it or not. If they're empty then the top of the barrel is open and if it isn't then the barrel is sealed shut. Just look for yourself.

Edit: This goes for all containers btw. Bins, armor stands, weapon wracks etc.

No I've got a few that have such a small amount in them they don't look filled. I am well aware you could look at them and tell but even bins I have the same thing happen. If it has say 1 cloth it looks empty...if it has like 4 or more/filled then yes I can tell by just looking right at it.

Ok I think I see the problem kinda. It seems containers sometimes end up stacking onto eachother and cover the other one up. Because I have a barrel with 2 dwarf beer in it and it clearly has liquid in it.

That's all I can think of from my personal experience. Anyways it is a new feature so maybe a little buggy idk.

[Arcanua]

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

Originally posted by Arcanua:

No I've got a few that have such a small amount in them they don't look filled. I am well aware you could look at them and tell but even bins I have the same thing happen. If it has say 1 cloth it looks empty...if it has like 4 or more/filled then yes I can tell by just looking right at it.

Ok I think I see the problem kinda. It seems containers sometimes end up stacking onto eachother and cover the other one up. Because I have a barrel with 2 dwarf beer in it and it clearly has liquid in it.

That's all I can think of from my personal experience. Anyways it is a new feature so maybe a little buggy idk.

I thought it was a lose barrel on top but considering you can tell when that is the case by simply clicking it's not that. and stockpiles prevent that from happening anyways.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by Arcanua:

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

Ok I think I see the problem kinda. It seems containers sometimes end up stacking onto eachother and cover the other one up. Because I have a barrel with 2 dwarf beer in it and it clearly has liquid in it.

That's all I can think of from my personal experience. Anyways it is a new feature so maybe a little buggy idk.

I thought it was a lose barrel on top but considering you can tell when that is the case by simply clicking it's not that. and stockpiles prevent that from happening anyways.

I literally had a full gem bin sitting under an empty bin. I thought something was wrong with my mouse at first when I kept clicking on the empty bin to see it was full of gems lol.

Anyway it's 100% accurate in my experience unless they're weirdly stacking on eachother.

[Doctor Zalgo]

Originally posted by FennecFyre:

Originally posted by Arcanua:

Are you certain these barrels don't already have something in them? They kinda made that hard to check now which is really annoying @.@;;;

They're empty as far as I can tell, they're still sitting in the same workshop they were made in.

Look for a tiny icon that appears in the top right showing that an item has been tagged for another task. It might be that.