
Chests/Coffers/Boxes are different names for the same piece of furniture depending on the material it's made from.Flasks/Waterskins/Vials are different names for the same containers depending on the material it's made from.Bags are like Chests/Coffers/Boxes made of cloth or leather, can be placed as furniture in the same fashion.Bags are mini containers for powders and can be stored inside Barrels/Large Pots if holding food items.Jugs are mini containers for jellies and can be stored inside Bins, in this sense they are like Bags.Buckets are used for temporary storage of Milk, Lye, and Water.Bins are like Barrels but stores different stuff.Large Pots are like Barrels but with different capacities.Honey Bees, Royal Jelly, Honeycomb ġ - Large Pots can be made from any hard material, including wood and metal 2 - Used to carry water, can store Milk and Lye but will be emptied into Barrels 3 - Backpacks and quivers can only be made from Adamantine cloth, though ones made from other cloth can be purchased from caravans 4 - Brewing and extracting can store any amount of liquid within a barrel or flask Their contents can be viewed with the t menu.įood, Alcohol 4, Extracts 4, Milk (25), Lye (10), Bags Cabinets are used to store clothing, and chests are used to store everything else.Īlso, the hospital needs containers for its supply-storage.Ī stone chest is called a coffer, and a glass chest is called a box, but they are used for the same purpose. They must be built in rooms assigned to dwarves in order to function properly. These two containers are both furniture items only. They are made at a Clothier's shop with 1 cloth or at a Leather works with 1 leather.Įmpty barrels, bins and bags can all be stored in a furniture stockpile. Bags can be placed as furniture and then function as coffers (see below). Bags can be placed inside other containers, such as barrels. Bags are used to gather and transport powders the same way buckets are used to carry water. They are made from plant fiber (or silk) cloth, leather, or adamantine.

They are made at a Carpenter's workshop with 1 log or at a Forge with 3 bars of metal.īags are used to store seeds, quarry bush leaves, mill products ( flour, sugar, dye) and sand (" powders"). They are sent to all the other stockpiles (with the exclusion of the refuse, stone and graveyard piles) and will hold much larger stacks of items, making organizing those endless piles of +giant cave spider silk socks+ much easier to manage. Pots, the stoneware equivalent of barrels, can also be used to store alcohol and other related liquids.īins are containers, again made from wood or metal, used for most non-food items. 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 in a stack of 10 or less, fat and tallow, and all prepared organs. The i tems command can be used to see items that are stored in a built container.

Press enter again to select the contents, if any. Then, use + and - until the container is highlighted, then press enter. To examine a container's contents when the container is in a stockpile, select the object location with the k key. All containers 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 container, analogous to a chest.Ĭhests, coffers, boxes and bags are subsumed under boxes and bags in the status stocks screen the other containers have their own entry. Only chests, coffers, bags, and boxes are explicitly called "container" in game as they can be placed as furniture by building (any of these 4 container types can be used to satisfy the "Needs: X Chests" requirement for nobles). Types of containers the game knows are chests, coffers, boxes, cabinets, bags, barrels, large pots and bins.
