How to get Dwarfs to use wheelbarrow

[John Cena]

I have multiple wheelbarrows in a couple stockpiles with each stockpile being allowed to use multiple wheelbarrows.

I have a dorf whos sole job is to create floors.

He isn't using the wheelbarrows to carry the stone to the floor location and instead lugs it around. While this is great for his IFBB career it's terrible for my floor.

Is there a way to force him to use the wheelbarrow to speed up his travel time or is he forever committed to carrying this damn stone everywhere?

I know I can create a stockpile right next to the floor but he seems to be ignoring the stone right next to him as well.

Thanks

[Hipnox]

iirc (veteran players correct me if I'm wrong) wheelbarrows are only used to take stuff TO stockpiles, never from stockpile to a job.

[[DFC] Chuck]

You know the game's got a wiki, right?

"A stockpile's wheelbarrows are only used to carry items to that stockpile; they will not be used to carry items away from it."

[John Cena]

So he's never gonna use the wheelbarrow to carry the stone to the stockpile right next to the construction site and just carry the stone from there?

[Uncertain Farts]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Luke Skywalker:

So he's never gonna use the wheelbarrow to carry the stone to the stockpile right next to the construction site and just carry the stone from there?

same problem...rocks everywhere....open stockpile, no hauling

[graalGGTV]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Luke Skywalker:

So he's never gonna use the wheelbarrow to carry the stone to the stockpile right next to the construction site and just carry the stone from there?

If you set wheelbarrows to the stockpile next to the construction site, someone will use a wheelbarrow to carry the stone to the stockpile, and the builder will manually carry the stone from the stockpile to the construction site.

Quick advice, you might want to build with stone blocks instead, since they are a lot lighter and faster to carry

[[DFC] Chuck]

Make your worksite stockpile have a few wheelbarrows in it. It's not like wheelbarrows are hard or expensive to make.

Build in chunks, is what I'm suggesting. I'll assume you're very interested in only using stone as your building material, and are especially opposed to breaking a heavy stone into four blocks which are more numerous, lighter, and make anything that uses architecture build much faster and be of higher quality.

Make a stockpile near where you want to build your stuff. If you're going to make this stockpile use very large and heavy items, like stone, then try to make this a stockpile dedicated to only that. Make the stockpile big enough to hold only 20-30 items at a time. Give the stockpile 3 wheelbarrows, and make sure you've got the wheelbarrows manufactured so the stockpile can grab them. Let your otherwise idle and bored dwarves bring a few rocks to the area when they're not busy with more important stuff. Once you're scrolling by the area, notice when the stockpile is full. Then just go and built the next 20-ish units of wall segment or whatever you're working with.

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On second read-through of your comment, it looks like you're trying to use Stone to pave entire floors? Last time I looked that up, that was an incredibly inefficient use of stone. Frankly, I'd strongly encourage you to either smooth the floor instead, if it's not made of soil, or to make a ton of rock blocks, since they make any large-ish scale construction in the game way better, for a bunch of reasons. A third thing you could do is just dig a few levels deeper where you want your stone floor to be. That way, you might build the room in a stone layer instead of needing to do a lot of construction stuff in a shallow soil layer. That should let you skip the paving use her entirely.

It's also possible that you're just looking for semi-useful jobs for extra labour to do. In which case, I'm not sure why the labour being inefficient is an issue.