User talk:N9103

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Nice simplification on the containers page. Thanks. --Mithra 15:36, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Problems/mistakes/corrections

Forgive me for the occasional slip up. Just make a note here of where I managed to screw up, so that I may endeavor to learn from my mistakes.

Prepared meals

re: "I don't know why you made the claim that you can't set a stockpile for them exclusively."

Can you explain how to do it? My understanding of the UI is that you tell the stockpile what types of food to have and then flag (u) as to whether to include prepared meals or not. That means that prepared meals AND unprepared food (ie raw ingredients) will also fill up that pile. For example, if I set the stockpile to allow only seeds and then leave (u) flagged then both seeds AND prepared meals made from seeds will fill that stockpile. If my understanding is wrong, I apologize. Either way, I want to include the information in the page because I don't think it is obvious. That means that if indeed you can set an exclusively prepared meal stockpile, I would like to have explicit instructions in the article (because I don't know how to do it yet myself).

Thanks!--Jpwrunyan 12:20, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

No need to apologize, but your understanding is, indeed, wrong. Blocking/forbidding all foodstuffs and hitting u will create a stockpile with nothing but prepared food. Once it's prepared, it doesn't matter what's in it - it's generic "prepared food" as far as stockpiles go. (You can still sort pf by quality, iirc.)

Look at the "& stockpiles" subsection of the kitchens article (where currently "prepared meals" are addressed - it's all there already. Also a link to that same section under [Food#Cooked food]) --Albedo 12:39, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

LoL... problems posted in my talk are solved other users, before I can get a chance to read the problem :p
-Edward 18:33, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Um... yeah. Oops. It was late, I had just edited that very topic - my bad.--Albedo 21:59, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

No problem. I think it's great that people are so eager to help, they'll go see what's said on other peoples talk pages. It's a great sign of a strong community! -Edward 22:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

There were two reasons I didn't think you could get only prepared meals into a stockpile: 1) My experience with stockpiles (although I hadn't tried turning all options off other than (u) because...) 2) The layout of the GUI made the prepared meals flag seem like something separate from the other options. It looked like it was meant to function as the equivalent of a check-box entirely independent of the other options. So I searched the wiki for "prepared meals" and got sent to the kitchen page. I couldn't find the info I was looking for so I added it myself as I saw fit. Anyway, thanks to everyone for clearing it up. The explanation is very clear and addressed all the questions/doubts I had previously! It's exactly what I was looking for in the first place!--Jpwrunyan 13:42, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

(response to separate topic, my page)--Albedo 22:00, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Rule N

Oops, sorry... on "the other wiki" the equivalent of rule N applies to sections too.

Now, any advice on how to force bin use in block stockpiles? ;) GarrieIrons 21:22, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, as long as you don't have the reserved bin setting higher than free ones, have more allowed spaces than are currently filled on that particular stockpile, free haulers, usually atleast one free stockpile space... then eventually as long as those all hold out, the stockpile will be binned up, assuming it's a bin-able good being stockpiled. The AI can take awhile to get around to doing the binning though. -Edward

My best guess is:

1. set furniture stockpile for bins
2. when furniture stockpile is full redesignate the stockpile for the item you want binned.

I haven't given it a go yet. My problem is with blocks... they cluttered up my mason shop so I pulled the mason shop down and you should see all the blocks.

Had too long a break from df, now I can't get screw pumps right. It seems you have to stand next to the intake to build them, which makes it easy to block yourself in.GarrieIrons 01:01, 24 May 2009 (UTC)