This can be a little confusing at first, but if you see random socks or trousers lying around that are 'owned', then you can safely leave those be without having to dump them. You have to designate those for dumping manually, and after being dumped, it will lose its owner, after which you can unforbid it and allow your haulers to move them into your used clothes stockpile.Ģnd Note: Dwarves will undress themselves anywhere in your fort, drop the item of clothing on the ground, go and pick up their new clothes, and then finally come back to pick up the clothes they left on the ground. Note: Tidy dwarves will 'clean' up their waste by placing worn clothes in their cabinets. Then the automation magic in form of stop dumping items on receiving into the hole. Hole should have 1 tile refuse stockpile on its bottom. You can sell the used clothes bins to caravans. 1 stockpile to accept clothing from everywhere. Sometimes, perfectly fine clothes get placed here, but in my experience, Dwarves shopping at the goodwill will snap those up pretty quickly. I would guess that these are items which belong to someone who isnt dead and doesnt want them, dwarves wont dump things that below to one of your dwarves usually. It effectively fills up with worn or low quality clothes. Cloth and leather do provide some minimal protection, and will protect against spear traps in your danger room. The used clothes stockpile is used by everyone who is hauling a clothes item. Dwarves that need clothes will stop by here to pick something out, and haul their old clothes to the used clothes stockpile. No one can haul goods to or from this stockpile, so all the clothes there are always new. What this effectively does is that it forces your clothier to deposit the newly made clothes into a specific stockpile. Disable ability to take from any stockpile or workshop.Set as dedicated output for your clothier (or leather worker) I would just build a Dwarven Atom Smasher (bridge linked up to a lever basically), mark all the clothes for dumping (k-d if I remember correctly), and hit the lever.Custom -> Finished Goods (enable all) -> Type (disable all except Armor, Headware, Footware, Legware, and Handwear.Trash includes vermin remains, spoiled food, excessively worn clothing and goods, stray animal corpses and unusable byproducts, and the remains. You'll need one Fresh Clothes stockpile per clothier, but you only need one used clothes stockpile for the entire fort. A garbage disposal is any convenient mechanism to quickly (and, preferably, automatically) dispose of the ever-growing mounds of trash produced by a successful fortress. Label one for fresh clothes and the other for used clothes. Hey! I have Chime's solution (tested working) in my fort, but it's a little convoluted, so strap in.įirst, you're going to need two stockpiles. Yeah I know but the problem is, you have to forbid them first because theyre still owned by some dwarf.

Dwarf fortress dump clothing