What do I do with worn out clothing?

[Float07]

My fortress is getting full of worn clothes. I'm currently either selling or dumping them, but this means individually clicking each one of them to either transport to the dump or the trade depot. Does anyone have a better strategy for getting rid of them?

[McFuzz]

Use the dump mass draw tool, down the bottom right, the icon that looks like 4 tiny symbols. It's the trash can that does it.

[harlequin_corps]

Ok.. so.. it's complicated but.. Once you set it up you can use it. Set up your stockpiles so one stockpile which is really close to the trader is only for your crap and x, X, XX items. disallow them from your other stockpiles. Then sort by distance in the trader menu to sell them. However, it won't make it much easier.. better to just constantly be selling off items to the trader until you don't have a lot of items.

You actually want to avoid the "pick up twice to sell once" methodology of sorting stuff. Which is what the above is.
One of the problems is that even if it's in a refuse/dump pile, it's still in your base inventory eating FPS. Get it off the map entirely by destroying or selling.

[Float07]

Originally posted by Frank McFuzz:

Use the dump mass draw tool, down the bottom right, the icon that looks like 4 tiny symbols. It's the trash can that does it.

But I'd still need to get all the worn clothing together for this to work. How can I do that?

Originally posted by harlequin_corps:

Ok.. so.. it's complicated but.. Once you set it up you can use it. Set up your stockpiles so one stockpile which is really close to the trader is only for your crap and x, X, XX items. disallow them from your other stockpiles. Then sort by distance in the trader menu to sell them. However, it won't make it much easier.. better to just constantly be selling off items to the trader until you don't have a lot of items.

You actually want to avoid the "pick up twice to sell once" methodology of sorting stuff. Which is what the above is.
One of the problems is that even if it's in a refuse/dump pile, it's still in your base inventory eating FPS. Get it off the map entirely by destroying or selling.

How can I set a stockpile only for x, X and XX items?

[creepy-streaker]

i think i got them to auto dump worn clothing by setting the option in the hauling menu thing settings to "dump other" or something. the option thats all the way at the bottom. however i did it again on a new fort and they dont seem to be doing it so idk really :/

[Deviant]

All you can do is create a clothing stockpile that only accepts items from your clothing workshops.

Then create another clothing stockpile that accepts from everywhere.

New items end up in the workshop linked pile, and everything else ends up in the other pile.

[Float07]

Originally posted by creepy-streaker:

i think i got them to auto dump worn clothing by setting the option in the hauling menu thing settings to "dump other" or something. the option thats all the way at the bottom. however i did it again on a new fort and they dont seem to be doing it so idk really :/

It doesn't seem to work for me as well ;-;

Originally posted by Deviant:

All you can do is create a clothing stockpile that only accepts items from your clothing workshops.

Then create another clothing stockpile that accepts from everywhere.

New items end up in the workshop linked pile, and everything else ends up in the other pile.

Yeah, that can work a little I think. But there's still clothing that comes from other places (caravans, for example) and the dwarves like to keep worn clothing in their room for some reason lol

[Turkish Hair Graft]

Make a clothing stockpile that accepts only standard and well-crafted clothes next to your depot. Sell (or gift) everything that does not meet dwarven quality standards. Sure you'll sell some not-worn-out garbage quality stuff too, but in half a year your clothiers will be ultra-instinct-grade and churning out masterwork tunics on the regular.

[Float07]

Originally posted by Glow-Up Gollum:

Make a clothing stockpile that accepts only standard and well-crafted clothes next to your depot. Sell (or gift) everything that does not meet dwarven quality standards. Sure you'll sell some not-worn-out garbage quality stuff too, but in half a year your clothiers will be ultra-instinct-grade and churning out masterwork tunics on the regular.

What about worn well-crafted clothes? they will still be placed in the stockpile you mentioned

[MadDawg2552]

Doesn't worn clothing in a refuse stockpile eventually disappear?

[Philtre]

Originally posted by MadDawg2552:

Doesn't worn clothing in a refuse stockpile eventually disappear?

Yes, but you have to get it there first, and if you put brand-new clothing in it, that will eventually disappear too. So the problem is that there is no easy way to mass-select worn-out items to send to the refuse stockpile. IIUC, dwarfs are supposed to dump their "tattered" clothes automatically, but in practice they don't.

[Float07]

Originally posted by Philtre:

Originally posted by MadDawg2552:

Doesn't worn clothing in a refuse stockpile eventually disappear?

Yes, but you have to get it there first, and if you put brand-new clothing in it, that will eventually disappear too. So the problem is that there is no easy way to mass-select worn-out items to send to the refuse stockpile. IIUC, dwarfs are supposed to dump their "tattered" clothes automatically, but in practice they don't.

I think there was never an option for dwarves to dump their clothes automatically. In classic Dwarf Fortress, players would use DFHack to help with that. But yeah, the problem is actually putting the clothes in the stockpile, since there are a LOT of them.