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[bumblepuppy]

Hello all,

I have a bit of a strange problem. My dwarves likes to claim ownership on foodstuff. I think this happens because they take the food as military provisions. The problem arises when they don't eat the food and leave it all over the place. The food is not unclaimed, no one else can eat it, so I am left with a fortress abundant in plump helmets that no one want to touch because it's had another dwarf's fingers on it. Some would have starved if not for a human caravan passing through!

Is there any way to fix this? :/

[Quietust]

By any chance is the military dwarf assigned to perform mining or wood cutting? If so, don't do that - it's broken and results in the exact behavior you're seeing.

The only way to free up those items is to kill the owner and any spouse/children (since they'll just inherit the meals), and make sure the dwarf doesn't have an assigned tomb (otherwise all of the food will be buried with the dwarf).

[Psieye]

Wouldn't the alternative be to just tell them not to carry any food on them? Or not to have backpacks on them at all?

[Quietust]

It's not possible to have them not carry backpacks, though setting them to carry zero rations would probably work.

[proxn_punkd]

By any chance is the military dwarf assigned to perform mining or wood cutting? If so, don't do that - it's broken and results in the exact behavior you're seeing.

That explains my issues with this on a previous fort! I had all my army dwarves assigned to mining, and the commander decided everything belonged to her and starved out my fort.

[FuzzyZergling]

You could also try setting up a temporary burrow that only includes the owned food.
I haven't tried this so it may not work.

[slothen]

I've seen this when miners are active as military.  I think I channeled the tile with the food and rebuild a floor over it.  Problem (sort of) solved!

[bumblepuppy]

Thanks Quietust. That seems to be the issue, as I did assign a few soldiers to wood-cutting when no one was doing it. The problem now is that my fort has only ~30 dwarves, and killing the culprits off would spell certain disaster.  Ah well, time to start a new fort in .14.