Pots can also be used to store alcohol and other related liquids, though clay pots (earthenware) must be glazed to hold liquids. Pots, an alternative for barrels, can be made of wood, stone, clay, glass, or metal. Barrels can be disabled in a stockpile to prevent haulers from running off with everything else inside to pick up a stray seed. They are made at a Carpenter's workshop with 1 log or at a Forge with 3 bars of metal. See also, stocks.īarrels are wooden or metal containers that are useful for storing items in a food stockpile and are used to store alcohol, plants, seed bags, meat, fish, dwarven syrup, quarry bush leaf bags, flour bags and dye bags, cooked food, fat and tallow, and all prepared organs. The i tems command can be used to see items that are stored in a built storage object. Press enter again to select the contents, if any.

Then, use + and - until the storage object is highlighted, then press enter. To examine a storage object's contents when the storage object is in a stockpile, select the object location with the k key. Each other storage object type has its own entry. All storage objects are used to hold items, from personal possessions to gems, alcohol, quarry bush leaves, and even living creatures, but their use is context-sensitive, so you cannot use your barrels for storing coins, but you can build a bag as a dwarf's personal storage object, analogous to a chest.Ĭhests, coffers, boxes and bags are subsumed under boxes and bags in the status stocks screen, and these can be built as ' containers' from the building menu to satisfy the 'Needs: X Chests' requirement for nobles. Types of items used for storage include containers, cabinets, barrels, large pots, and bins.

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