0008961: Off-duty military dwarves store food in bedrooms, get more, repeat

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(0032691) AVK (reporter) 2015-05-16 17:09	It seems like it's connected to the militia ration system. They're dutifully stocking up on the two meals they're supposed to carry, but they are out of uniform and lacking backpacks, so they do the next best thing and carry it to their personal quarters. The mayor uses his chests to store them, but the others just leave them lying around on the floor. I simply forbade the squad from carrying food and the whole rigamarole stopped dead in its tracks. Maybe the resupply job is taking priority over finding their uniforms? Their order schedules say that they're supposed to be in uniform at all times, but why are they constantly storing away and retrieving their armor and weapons between individual drills?

(0032694) Detros (manager) 2015-05-17 12:09	Sounds like a duplicate of 0007665, "Dwarfs don't remove rotten meals" where those meals are also stored in their bedrooms.

(0032698) Loci (manager) 2015-05-17 17:58	This is probably a uniform conflict with mining, woodcutting, or hunting labors. Try disabling those three labors on your military dwarves and see if they collect their backpacks and stop storing meals in their rooms.

(0032975) PatrikLundell (reporter) 2015-08-20 09:36	I had the same problem last autumn (0.40.13/19?) where I assigned my whole fortress population, except uniform conflicting ones and the proper militia, to "militia" units with replace uniforms (to get them to wear armor) and wear it at all times, but never assigned any schedule or training facilities to them. I cannot swear on it, but I think they all had both backpacks and flasks. My problem wasn't as severe, however, in that they stored a lot of food (to eventually rot) in their rooms, but they didn't do that non stop. They mostly worked as the were intended to do. Also, all dwarves did not store food, only some of them did. Unless the jobs overhaul affected this, I think that makes the uniform conflict theory less likely.

(0033002) jargo (reporter) 2015-08-26 15:18	The problem is definitely related to the way military rations are implemented. If you inspect a military dwarf's backpack, you'll find that the food items are explicitly owned by the dwarf. However, the backpack itself is community property. When a dwarf goes off duty, he'll return the backpack to the general stockpile. The dwarf will then store the food in the backpack in his bedroom, because it's "owned property". You see the same behavior with the way dwarves handle discarded clothing. However, food will rot in the bedroom because the food isn't in a proper stockpile. The workaround is to configure your part time military dwarves to not carry any food (menu: m-u). Only full time military dwarves should be allowed to carry rations.

(0039487) Loci (manager) 2019-08-13 13:44	confirmed to be caused by uniform conflicts in v0.44.12: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=14510 [^] Enabling Mining, Woodcutting, or Hunting on any dwarf causes that dwarf to abandon rations when going off duty. @PatrikLundell: Both of the problematic dwarves in the provided save have the Mining labor enabled. If you can isolate some other cause (excluding 'Hammerer', which also has a uniform conflict) then please log a separate report.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-05-16 16:32	jwoodward48df	New Issue
2015-05-16 17:09	AVK	Note Added: 0032691
2015-05-16 18:52	lethosor	Product Version	=> 0.40.24
2015-05-17 12:09	Detros	Note Added: 0032694
2015-05-17 17:58	Loci	Note Added: 0032698
2015-08-20 09:36	PatrikLundell	Note Added: 0032975
2015-08-26 15:18	jargo	Note Added: 0033002
2019-08-13 13:44	Loci	Note Added: 0039487
2019-08-13 13:44	Loci	Assigned To	=> Loci
2019-08-13 13:44	Loci	Status	new => confirmed
2019-08-13 13:46	Loci	Summary	Dwarves store food in bedrooms, get more, repeat => Off-duty military dwarves store food in bedrooms, get more, repeat
2019-08-13 13:49	Loci	Relationship added	related to 0001451