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[lcy03406]

i noticed sometimes when he finished 'drinking', a soldier go to demonstration/individual practice(as his current job) with a barrel 'hauling'  (he also holds an axe and a shield in two hands), and as soon as he arrive the barrack, he decide to 'stock item in stockpile', and return to the stockpile, put down the barrel, and return to the barrack and start demonstration/individual practice actually. I wonder if it is a bug, or i did something wrong? how to get him put down the barrel before going to the barrack?

[Dwarfu]

It is a bug, reported as #300.

[Sutremaine]

Give them waterskins. Rarely you'll find a dwarf drinking from the barrel because his or her waterskin has gotten forbidden somehow (probably something to do with uniform changes, but I've never seen the exact moment it happens), but that can be remedied with a quick trip to the stocks screen to catch any other forbidden flask-type items.

[bucket]

CMDR HAMMERLOTS: No drinking during military exercises, please.
URIST MCBOOZEHOUND: Aww. *goes back to stockpile*

[lcy03406]

Give them waterskins. Rarely you'll find a dwarf drinking from the barrel because his or her waterskin has gotten forbidden somehow (probably something to do with uniform changes, but I've never seen the exact moment it happens), but that can be remedied with a quick trip to the stocks screen to catch any other forbidden flask-type items.

Thank you. But what's the 'gotten forbidden' thing? It's about another bug?

Anyway I'll design a small stockpile in the barrack and allow soldiers carrying food and booze. But they will not get a happy thought as dining in a fine dining room then, how should I keep them satisfied in a long duty of training season?

[blaize9]

add a nice metal statue in the middle, also smooth and engrave the Walls + Floors.

[Sutremaine]

Thank you. But what's the 'gotten forbidden' thing? It's about another bug?

What I think happens is that dwarves who change their upper body armour automatically drop the waterskin tucked into the armour, and at that point it gets treated by forbid orders as a death item.

Soldiers won't take food to the dining room, so if they're active constantly they won't ever get good thoughts from a dining room. Backpacks aren't as good as they should be because dwarves will refill them every time a meal is eaten, and if your dwarves do any wrestling the food will end up on the floor, which in a subterranean barracks will result in clouds of miasma. But backpacks do at least cut down on eating time, since like liquid in a waterskin the food consumed in one turn.

[FearfulJesuit]

This is why I use traps. The military is simply unmanagable for me.

[Sutremaine]

This? There are far more annoying aspects to the military than the odd bit of barrel-hauling.

[Loud Whispers]

Spontaneous dying amongst them.

[FearfulJesuit]

All of it. The horrible interface. Trying to get them to do uniforms. Schedules. Setting up waterskins and backpacks. It's doable, but it's so much of a hassle that I much prefer traps.

[Loud Whispers]

I don't quite know, for some reason I actually like the unending complexity that everything in DF demands.