0000086: "Take from stockpile" doesn't work, results in dwarves standing around looking confused

(0000085)
DoctorZuber (reporter)
2010-04-01 20:46

Quickly verified using a pair of wood stockpiles. The dwarves will move to the object, think about it for a few frames, and then cancel the job without moving the object. They will do this repeatedly, so setting take from stockpile not only doesn't work, it wastes labor like crazy.

(0000277)
Dae (reporter)
2010-04-02 13:06

Confirmed, they juste dance around the stockpile, as if once there they thought their mission complete.
Moreover, if you set a stockpile to take from 2 different stockpiles, dwarves will dance between the two stockpiles, without doing anything

(0000344)
Peewee (reporter)
2010-04-02 17:36

Confirmed with a seed stockpile taking from a main food stockpile.

(0000731)
oliver (reporter)
2010-04-03 18:01

Dwarves will move barrels correctly using take-from (tested with food barrels).
Other stuff is broken.

(0000940)
Spreggo (reporter)
2010-04-04 15:31
edited on: 2010-04-04 15:31

I didn't test with food barrels, but this issue was apparent when moving empty barrels between 2 or more piles.

(0000955)
Steely Glint (reporter)
2010-04-04 16:38

I don't believe it's completely correct to say they do nothing. When I looked at this problem step-by-step, they actually do pick up the item (logs in my case) for at least one frame.

(0000964)
Michiro (reporter)
2010-04-04 17:57

Observed with furniture and wood stockpiles, food seems to work at least some of the time.

(0001558)
OzoneGrif (reporter)
2010-04-06 12:53

Confirmed with Stones and Food barrels.
With the order "Take from another pile", dwarves start dancing around.

(0001697)
Squirrelloid (reporter)
2010-04-07 00:18

I've had dwarves move meat with take from stockpile. I've also had them move booze and plants. The meat and plants may have been by barrel. However, cooked meals (which i never put in barrels) lead to a dwarf picking up one serving and then dropping it, repeatedly.

(0001912)
derigo (reporter)
2010-04-07 19:28

it also happens with seeds

(0002823)
mschamis (reporter)
2010-04-11 09:53

In addition the dwarves also don't seem to recognize some items in stockpiles for jobs. They utterly refused to get bituminous coal out of a stockpile to be smelted into coke. It was not forbidden and the stockpile was directly next to the smelter. Eventually I mined some more and they used that (when they pathed at all).

(0003518)
kaefermelder (reporter)
2010-04-14 11:06

I only have tried this with refuse stockpiles, but in any case I got the same behaviour.

(0004259)
king doom (reporter)
2010-04-19 12:22

It seems like dwarves don't like taking stuff from stockpiles much at all right now. I had a caravan come, I bought about 600 sea nettle jellyfish (It was dirt cheap, okay?) and it was all moved into my food stockpile, filling it totally. When I had enough barrels made to shift the stuff into, the dwarves just sat around the meeting hall and left it on the floor of the stockpile. I had to make smaller stockpiles and the dwarves would only put the jellyfish into barrels in the smaller stockpiles. These were default stockpiles, barrels not forbidden or in a burrow or etcetera.

(0004663)
Misterstone (reporter)
2010-04-22 19:41

My dwarves are doing the take from stockpile dance right now as well. They go out to the "take from" stockpile and run back to the "take to" stockpile. Problem is, they don't pick anything up! In my case, it is unprepared fish, which they are ordered to take to a stockpile near the fish processing workshop.

I'll make a copy of my save and keep it somewhere in case you guys want it.

(0004785)
estokien (reporter)
2010-04-23 15:07

This officially killed one of my dwarves. Due to the multiple mayor bug a mandate got made by a former mayor that didn't appear on the nobles screen, but the metalsmith wound up in violation of it and was sent to the stocks. I had a nice area set up with a restraint, bed, prepared foods stockpile and drink stockpile, but because it couldn't do a proper take from setup, the drinks weren't stocked fast enough and he died of thirst in a fortress with over 900 units of drinks. Without this working properly, the only way to manage item locations is with dump assignments or removing full stockpiles.

(0005055)
Myxine (reporter)
2010-04-25 16:27

Taking from food stockpiles seems to work fine for me, taking from a furniture stockpile ends up with a bunch of dwarves walking back and forth going "?" endlessly.

(0006167)
crossmr (reporter)
2010-05-05 06:50

Also confirmed. I had 2 wood stockpiles set up, they just wandered back and forth doing nothing.

(0006635)
Areyar (reporter)
2010-05-13 04:42

This does not always happen, I just noticed in an older fort that I had set up several woodland collection stockpiles being taken from by a central pile.
All was being hauled wonderfully, until I decided to delete an outlying stockpile.
After that I noticed confused dwarfs collecting at the receiving pile.

In another fortress (see duplicate 0001392) it appeared to be caused by altering the allowed goods in involved piles, but I don't remember if I did not in fact delete a stockpile as well.

(0006726)
GusSmedstad (reporter)
2010-05-15 09:49

Taking food seems to work, but taking stone (i.e. Coal) results in the back-and-forth shuffle, where the dwarf goes to the source pile and then cancels the job repeatedly.

(0007459)
swuboo (reporter)
2010-05-28 22:49

The jobs generated by this bug are apparently quite high priority; it took me several hours in .01 to figure out why I couldn't build a forge... the anvil was continuously tasked take-from stockpiles jobs.

(0008186)
Toady One (administrator)
2010-06-12 02:58

This has been fixed for 0.31.07. At least my tests have checked out. There are a number of permutations, and on a long journey where a dwarf ends up cancelling the job by confused through pathing or whatever, they might end up returning the item. I didn't see that happen though.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-04-01 20:33	aepurniet	New Issue
2010-04-01 20:46	DoctorZuber	Note Added: 0000085
2010-04-02 06:34	Todestool	Tag Attached: stockpile
2010-04-02 13:06	Dae	Note Added: 0000277
2010-04-02 17:36	Peewee	Note Added: 0000344
2010-04-02 17:36	Peewee	Tag Attached: pathfinding
2010-04-02 17:36	Peewee	Tag Detached: pathfinding
2010-04-03 10:11	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0000173
2010-04-03 18:01	oliver	Note Added: 0000731
2010-04-03 18:03	oliver	Issue Monitored: oliver
2010-04-04 15:02	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0000421
2010-04-04 15:31	Spreggo	Note Added: 0000940
2010-04-04 15:31	Spreggo	Note Edited: 0000940	View Revisions
2010-04-04 16:38	Steely Glint	Note Added: 0000955
2010-04-04 17:53	ThndrShk2k	Issue Monitored: ThndrShk2k
2010-04-04 17:53	ThndrShk2k	Issue End Monitor: ThndrShk2k
2010-04-04 17:57	Michiro	Note Added: 0000964
2010-04-05 00:18	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0000426
2010-04-06 12:50	Footkerchief	Sticky Issue	No => Yes
2010-04-06 12:53	OzoneGrif	Note Added: 0001558
2010-04-07 00:18	Squirrelloid	Note Added: 0001697
2010-04-07 18:27	quartic	Issue Monitored: quartic
2010-04-07 19:28	derigo	Note Added: 0001912
2010-04-08 18:48	Tomato	Issue Monitored: Tomato
2010-04-09 22:00	Khym Chanur	Issue Monitored: Khym Chanur
2010-04-11 09:53	mschamis	Note Added: 0002823
2010-04-14 09:06	Footkerchief	Summary	take from stockpile doesnt work => "Take from stockpile" results in dwarves standing around looking confused
2010-04-14 09:06	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0001147
2010-04-14 09:26	Phydaux	Issue Monitored: Phydaux
2010-04-14 11:06	kaefermelder	Note Added: 0003518
2010-04-14 14:52	bloodystump	Issue Monitored: bloodystump
2010-04-14 14:55	random51	Issue Monitored: random51
2010-04-14 15:02	Syke	Issue Monitored: Syke
2010-04-16 01:01	Footkerchief	Relationship added	parent of 0001216
2010-04-18 15:28	maximusfive	Issue Monitored: maximusfive
2010-04-19 02:52	ToXey	Tag Attached: AI
2010-04-19 02:53	ToXey	Tag Attached: hauling
2010-04-19 07:52	Jumpp	Issue Monitored: Jumpp
2010-04-19 09:32	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0001328
2010-04-19 12:22	king doom	Note Added: 0004259
2010-04-19 13:56	Footkerchief	Summary	"Take from stockpile" results in dwarves standing around looking confused => "Take from stockpile" doesn't work, results in dwarves standing around looking confused
2010-04-20 21:39	nocash	Issue Monitored: nocash
2010-04-21 23:56	jjdorf	Issue Monitored: jjdorf
2010-04-22 19:41	Misterstone	Note Added: 0004663
2010-04-23 13:47	epistemancer	Issue Monitored: epistemancer
2010-04-23 15:07	estokien	Note Added: 0004785
2010-04-24 11:16	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0001392
2010-04-24 11:16	Footkerchief	Issue Monitored: Footkerchief
2010-04-25 16:27	Myxine	Note Added: 0005055
2010-04-28 14:10	Footkerchief	Category	General => Dwarf Mode -- Stockpiles
2010-05-03 14:25	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0001723
2010-05-05 06:50	crossmr	Issue Monitored: crossmr
2010-05-05 06:50	crossmr	Note Added: 0006167
2010-05-07 06:30	Skandraken	Issue Monitored: Skandraken
2010-05-09 08:20	SafPlusPlus	Issue Monitored: SafPlusPlus
2010-05-13 04:42	Areyar	Note Added: 0006635
2010-05-15 09:48	GusSmedstad	Issue Monitored: GusSmedstad
2010-05-15 09:49	GusSmedstad	Note Added: 0006726
2010-05-28 22:49	swuboo	Note Added: 0007459
2010-06-03 15:12	Ivan_b21	Issue Monitored: Ivan_b21
2010-06-04 22:52	gxam	Issue Monitored: gxam
2010-06-05 04:59	Ametsala	Issue Monitored: Ametsala
2010-06-05 11:45	leetmaster4004	Issue Monitored: leetmaster4004
2010-06-12 02:58	Toady One	Note Added: 0008186
2010-06-12 02:58	Toady One	Status	new => resolved
2010-06-12 02:58	Toady One	Fixed in Version	=> 0.31.07
2010-06-12 02:58	Toady One	Resolution	open => fixed
2010-06-12 02:58	Toady One	Assigned To	=> Toady One
2010-06-12 08:49	jjdorf	Issue End Monitor: jjdorf
2010-06-12 15:32	maximusfive	Issue End Monitor: maximusfive
2010-06-12 21:05	Footkerchief	Sticky Issue	Yes => No
2010-06-12 23:31	bloodystump	Issue End Monitor: bloodystump
2010-06-13 17:08	Khym Chanur	Issue End Monitor: Khym Chanur
2010-06-19 19:44	Syke	Issue End Monitor: Syke
2010-06-28 02:49	oliver	Issue End Monitor: oliver
2010-07-28 06:09	nocash	Issue End Monitor: nocash
2010-11-11 14:10	quartic	Issue End Monitor: quartic

Notes
(0000085) DoctorZuber (reporter) 2010-04-01 20:46	Quickly verified using a pair of wood stockpiles. The dwarves will move to the object, think about it for a few frames, and then cancel the job without moving the object. They will do this repeatedly, so setting take from stockpile not only doesn't work, it wastes labor like crazy.

(0000277) Dae (reporter) 2010-04-02 13:06	Confirmed, they juste dance around the stockpile, as if once there they thought their mission complete. Moreover, if you set a stockpile to take from 2 different stockpiles, dwarves will dance between the two stockpiles, without doing anything

(0000344) Peewee (reporter) 2010-04-02 17:36	Confirmed with a seed stockpile taking from a main food stockpile.

(0000731) oliver (reporter) 2010-04-03 18:01	Dwarves will move barrels correctly using take-from (tested with food barrels). Other stuff is broken.

(0000940) Spreggo (reporter) 2010-04-04 15:31 edited on: 2010-04-04 15:31	I didn't test with food barrels, but this issue was apparent when moving empty barrels between 2 or more piles.

(0000955) Steely Glint (reporter) 2010-04-04 16:38	I don't believe it's completely correct to say they do nothing. When I looked at this problem step-by-step, they actually do pick up the item (logs in my case) for at least one frame.

(0000964) Michiro (reporter) 2010-04-04 17:57	Observed with furniture and wood stockpiles, food seems to work at least some of the time.

(0001558) OzoneGrif (reporter) 2010-04-06 12:53	Confirmed with Stones and Food barrels. With the order "Take from another pile", dwarves start dancing around.

(0001697) Squirrelloid (reporter) 2010-04-07 00:18	I've had dwarves move meat with take from stockpile. I've also had them move booze and plants. The meat and plants may have been by barrel. However, cooked meals (which i never put in barrels) lead to a dwarf picking up one serving and then dropping it, repeatedly.

(0001912) derigo (reporter) 2010-04-07 19:28	it also happens with seeds

(0002823) mschamis (reporter) 2010-04-11 09:53	In addition the dwarves also don't seem to recognize some items in stockpiles for jobs. They utterly refused to get bituminous coal out of a stockpile to be smelted into coke. It was not forbidden and the stockpile was directly next to the smelter. Eventually I mined some more and they used that (when they pathed at all).

(0003518) kaefermelder (reporter) 2010-04-14 11:06	I only have tried this with refuse stockpiles, but in any case I got the same behaviour.

(0004259) king doom (reporter) 2010-04-19 12:22	It seems like dwarves don't like taking stuff from stockpiles much at all right now. I had a caravan come, I bought about 600 sea nettle jellyfish (It was dirt cheap, okay?) and it was all moved into my food stockpile, filling it totally. When I had enough barrels made to shift the stuff into, the dwarves just sat around the meeting hall and left it on the floor of the stockpile. I had to make smaller stockpiles and the dwarves would only put the jellyfish into barrels in the smaller stockpiles. These were default stockpiles, barrels not forbidden or in a burrow or etcetera.

(0004663) Misterstone (reporter) 2010-04-22 19:41	My dwarves are doing the take from stockpile dance right now as well. They go out to the "take from" stockpile and run back to the "take to" stockpile. Problem is, they don't pick anything up! In my case, it is unprepared fish, which they are ordered to take to a stockpile near the fish processing workshop. I'll make a copy of my save and keep it somewhere in case you guys want it.

(0004785) estokien (reporter) 2010-04-23 15:07	This officially killed one of my dwarves. Due to the multiple mayor bug a mandate got made by a former mayor that didn't appear on the nobles screen, but the metalsmith wound up in violation of it and was sent to the stocks. I had a nice area set up with a restraint, bed, prepared foods stockpile and drink stockpile, but because it couldn't do a proper take from setup, the drinks weren't stocked fast enough and he died of thirst in a fortress with over 900 units of drinks. Without this working properly, the only way to manage item locations is with dump assignments or removing full stockpiles.

(0005055) Myxine (reporter) 2010-04-25 16:27	Taking from food stockpiles seems to work fine for me, taking from a furniture stockpile ends up with a bunch of dwarves walking back and forth going "?" endlessly.

(0006167) crossmr (reporter) 2010-05-05 06:50	Also confirmed. I had 2 wood stockpiles set up, they just wandered back and forth doing nothing.

(0006635) Areyar (reporter) 2010-05-13 04:42	This does not always happen, I just noticed in an older fort that I had set up several woodland collection stockpiles being taken from by a central pile. All was being hauled wonderfully, until I decided to delete an outlying stockpile. After that I noticed confused dwarfs collecting at the receiving pile. In another fortress (see duplicate 0001392) it appeared to be caused by altering the allowed goods in involved piles, but I don't remember if I did not in fact delete a stockpile as well.

(0006726) GusSmedstad (reporter) 2010-05-15 09:49	Taking food seems to work, but taking stone (i.e. Coal) results in the back-and-forth shuffle, where the dwarf goes to the source pile and then cancels the job repeatedly.

(0007459) swuboo (reporter) 2010-05-28 22:49	The jobs generated by this bug are apparently quite high priority; it took me several hours in .01 to figure out why I couldn't build a forge... the anvil was continuously tasked take-from stockpiles jobs.

(0008186) Toady One (administrator) 2010-06-12 02:58	This has been fixed for 0.31.07. At least my tests have checked out. There are a number of permutations, and on a long journey where a dwarf ends up cancelling the job by confused through pathing or whatever, they might end up returning the item. I didn't see that happen though.