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v0.31:Dwarf cancels Store Item: Item inaccessible

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This article is about an older version of DF.

This occurs when a dwarf is fetching an item and the path between the dwarf and the item is suddenly blocked.

For instance, the item is in a room and you lock all the doors between the dwarf and the item. This error can also crop up if the item is underwater, which gets annoying when one dwarf drowns and the spouse constantly wants to retrieve the items (spouses share ownership of each other's items).

It can also happen if your dwarves are assigned to a Template:L with a stockpile and there are items to be stored on that stockpile outside of the burrow. Jobs to store items are generated by the stockpile and even if only some of your dwarves are burrow-restricted they will try to take the job (because only burrow location of job-generating building - stockpile - is checked at this moment) and fail with this message when they realize they can't go there. Stockpiles don't stop generating fetch jobs for items no one is permitted to go to but do stop when there is no actual path (e.g. a locked door).

In all cases of repeated spam it is recommended to determine/guess what item is causing this and forbid it. You may have luck with looking into jjobs screen and vexamining jobs or disabling your Template:L one at a time to see which one will stop the spam.