Assigning mugs to a stockpile?

[Athedus]

They're not showing up in the custom filter, anywhere. My dwarves just seem to place them in the food stockpile when they're feeling inclined to do so. Any suggestions?

[McFuzz]

Assigning them to your dining room? Set up a tavern. Put chests in there, and the dwarves will stock it with cups.

I heard somewhere today that Dwarves don't even use cups by themselves. They need a barkeep at the tavern to pour drinks for them.

They should be in finished good but I don't have a fort going right now to check for ya, sorry <3

[Empathaur]

Originally posted by Athedus:

They're not showing up in the custom filter, anywhere. My dwarves just seem to place them in the food stockpile when they're feeling inclined to do so. Any suggestions?

I seem to remember from classic that dwarves will haul a mug to the barrels of booze in the stockpile, drink their fill, and then just discard the mug there, which might appear like they are stockpiling it there.

[kheftel]

Finished goods / goblets

[dundur35]

> I seem to remember from classic that dwarves will haul a mug to the barrels of booze in the stockpile, drink their fill, and then just discard the mug there, which might appear like they are stockpiling it there.

This is happening to me, and it is annoying, as it is disrupting the mug industry.
Dwarves steal mugs from the encrusted mug stockpile, go to some drink stockpile, and leave them there.

I can't find any way to prevent this. Tried:
1. put chest in the tavern, it is filled with mugs
2. forbid mugs (this was messy)

Any suggestion ?

[harlequin_corps]

So.
Not using a mug gives a negative thought. That's more or less the only reason to have them around.
As soon as they drink with the mug they will immediately drop it. It doesn't go into the drink stockpile, it's just in the stockpile.
If you setup another stockpile to manage the mugs, then you end up adding what I consider an unnecessary task that gets assigned to a dorf to move the mug to a stockpile. Dorf goes to stockpile, picks up/hauls mug to drink, uses mug to drink drink, drops mug after done drinking, another dorf comes along, picks up/hauls mug to store.
That second movement is completely unnecessary because if the mug is already co-located with the drink then they move to the drink, grab the mug, then drink, then put the mug back with the drink.
The only problem with that methodology is when they would rather drink from drink in the still. so they go grab the mug thats with the drink, goes to the still, drinks drink, then drops the mug somewhere else.
Once the mug takes up a block of the drink stockpile, then they won't move a drink barrel into that block. The best way to stick with the lower taskings methodology then is to just have a larger drink stockpile.
The bartender and other dorfs will move mugs to chests in the inn/tavern, so the chests become a sort of quantum stockpile of mugs. But it's only the chests in the inn/tavern that have a preset movement of mugs as part of the ongoing zone tasking.
If you want to have more mugs in the inn/tavern adjust the number of total mugs in the zone menu.
I have used mug only stockpiles located adjacent to drinks stockpiles. Once I realized that just means having another dorf come along and move a mug as a tasking, when I have more important things I want to task I stopped using mug stockpiles and just let everything go wherever.