How to dump stones efficiently

[pog]

Right now i am dumping my stones on a 1x1 garbage zone but this way sucks because you cannot use wheelbarrows for dumping stuff.

Is there a better way? that will let me dump stone automatically or at least more efficiently?

[Phreman]

it can be considered an exploit when taken advantage of, but look up quantum stockpiles. Helps manage space and FPS.

Stone hauling gets a pretty high priority when you designate many wheelbarrows into the giver stockpile, so watch that other tasks aren't being neglected.

[Darzan]

You could make stone stockpile near where you mine them and feed it to other stockpile with wheelbarrows near dumping zone.

Then again it is probably better to ignore wheelbarrows altogether as they are such a pain. Your dwarves will get stronger over time and carrying stones is not so difficult.

You might want to choose dwarf who are already strong for stone transport. I usually have one such dwarf do it in beginning. His only only task is to dump stones.

[Skizmo]

DFHack and the "autodump" command is how I move most of my stuff, lets my dwarfs get things done besides moving items all day.

[Fel]

You could make a small stone stockpile (probably not for all stones depending on what you want), and another with the same settings except for wheelbarrows but only taking 1 tile.
Between the two, build a minecart stop set to dump towards the 1-tile stockpile.

Make a "minecart route" that only consists of that one stop, remove all conditions from the stop, set it to take from the stockpile (not the 1-tile one), set the items and add a minecart to the route.

That way your dwarves will bring the stones to the stockpile using wheelbarrows, then put them into the minecart, which will directly put them on the 1-tile stockpile.
This is what we usually call "quantum stockpile" since stuff gets stored in large quantities on a single tile.

[Darzan]

I have no problem with autodump or other cleanup mods as long as people using them understand that from base game perspective they are cheating. Personally I enjoy challenge of transporting stones but yes, it can take lot time and man..heh..dwarfpower.

[pog]

thanks all.

[Mechanos]

I personally either just use a massive empty area for stone (and wheelbarrows) and just do it as vanilla intended. It honestly doesn't take that long if you have a lot of people on the job (I will often assign everyone to transport stuff, as once they're done transporting they're free to do their normal jobs, so why not). Or I'll make a quantum stockpile so the rocks get dumped into the same tile, BUT... I will include a few extra tiles for wheelbarrows next to it. That way if one of the stones are needed, dwarves will pick up a wheelbarrow for that process. You have to make sure the wheelbarrows don't accidentally get put into the quantum stack though.. it seems dwarves won't use wheelbarrows that accidentally get stuck in the pile.