This article or section has been rated D for Dwarf. The wagon will drop its three logs and be destroyed, though any items in the wagon will endure. Of note is the fact that channeling out and collapsing of the ground under a wagon does not allow the wagon to survive. If you embark in a glacial biome and are slow in moving your embark items underground, you will lose them and the wagon to wear. Depending on where you embarked, this will be either a nuisance or dangerously fun. If you deconstruct your wagon but do not define a new meeting area, your dwarves and animals will wander aimlessly across the entire map. A meeting zone is where any domestic animals or idle dwarves will congregate in their spare time their presence provides some measure of defense for your possessions from any rhesus macaques or kobold thieves before you finish securing your valuables. Unless/until you formally designate a new one, your wagon is a default Meeting Area or Meeting Hall. If it's within a couple tiles of such a location, it's recommended you wait until the wagon is 100% empty before dismantling it. A workshop construction order that is waiting for an item may similarly be suspended or cancelled - just re-order it, all will be good.ĭismantling the wagon when it's very near (1-2 tiles) the edge of the map or a river can cause you to lose part of your embark equipment if it lands where your dwarves can't go. They may adopt another hauling job, that same one or a different one, and sooner or later that item will get hauled, but that particular job is cancelled for that moment. Don't panic - nothing has been lost, except that dwarf's train of thought, as the item they were retrieving is no longer in the wagon, but instead on the ground. An announcement will be generated, to the effect of 'Job Item lost or misplaced'. Note: If that dis-assembly is finished while a dwarf is returning to the wagon to haul an item to a stockpile, the dwarf will cancel that job. Any unhauled supplies will then be scattered in a slightly-wider pattern in that same location, turning your 3x3 wagon into a 5x5 pile of your starting inventory. A dwarf with the Carpentry labor enabled will then deconstruct the wagon into its component logs. You can break down your wagon into three logs by pressing q or t, highlighting the wagon, and pressing x ('Remove Building'). To empty a wagon, your dwarves need the appropriate hauling labor enabled (all are enabled by default at embark), no other jobs to distract them, an appropriate stockpile designated, a valid path between the stockpile and the items, and, depending on how many items you brought, patience. It is also possible for your dwarves to embark into a volcano, though this is rare. This can be fun if it is surrounded by cliffs. In an even rarer case, your dwarves can decide to stop in the middle of a frozen river.

In this case, your wagon (and its constituent logs) will be missing, but your supplies will still be present, lying in a pile on the ground.

In rare cases, you might start on a level or spot that doesn't have a 3x3 square (e.g. Embarking with a large enough quantity of supplies can potentially result in receiving multiple wagons. It contains any and all supplies that you selected at embark and bought with points supplies cannot be bought later, but your dwarves can (try to) trade for whatever the seasonal caravans bring. An embark wagon is not a real vehicle, and never moves - it simply sits there at the start of the game, representing where your dwarves decided to stop. In Fortress mode, you usually start with a single immobile wagon that represents the transportation vehicle for all your supplies.

For further information on wagon 'creatures' used by caravans, see Wagon.

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