How do I collect rocks in Dwarf Fortress?
How do I collect rocks etc that are laying about in tunnels I've dug in Dwarf Fortress?
Turn them into rock blocks (since a lot of blocks will go into a single bin in a storage room and that's much neater). Clearing every stone takes a long time, but you can clear certain areas using burrows:
- Designating a burrow over the area you want to clear.
- Select a lowly mason who will be your exclusive stone block maker and assign him to the burrow.
- Build a mason's workshop inside the burrow.
- Use the profiles screen on the workshop to restrict the dwarves that can work there to your chosen mason. (You'll need to have a manager for this.)
- Set make rock blocks to repeat!
Your lowly mason will dutifully go about their business selecting only stone from the burrow and will automatically take breaks to sleep and eat, so this is a pretty low-maintenance method.
another method is using the quantum storage trick/bug/cheat
first, create a 1x1 refuse zone(i, move to were you want it, Enter, Enter) and designate it as garbage zone.
Now, you can select the area (any size) to dump in that zone (d, b, d)
All items selected in the area will be hauled into that zone.
now, if you want to reclaim all the items in this zone, you can do it by using d, b, c, Enter, Enter right on that zone
Yet another option is to just hide the stones via d -> b-> h. This only doesn't display the stones anymore, but they're still there! Best used if you want your fortress to look nice quickly, without generating any jobs.