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I created a human outsider adventurer with a pet war rhino, and another party member which is a muskox woman.

We were spreading fun in our starting dwarf village, and after a while, visiting mounds and spreading more fun, I noticed that the rhino and the muskox woman were not there any more.
I can not switch character using tab.

If I ask locals about the muskox woman, some tell me that she is in the village, but not precisely where.

I searched around, cheating with the "reveal" command of DF Hack, and haven't seen the muskox woman or the rhino, neither corresponding corpses.

I tried entering travel mode and then going back, to no avail.

If I go to the "c" (companions) menu then the "E" (Party tactical settings), the muskox woman is listed as "In Matchedworked" (the name of the village).

What may have happened?

After reading this conversation, I decided to try adventure mode.

I ended up making a group of adventurers containing a few dwarves, a human outsider with gremlin and black mamba pets, and a wolverine man doctor.

I managed to get the group to a fortress I had retired with just one poor survivor of a group of 7 that I had sent to reclaim a fortress lost due do accidentally breaching a vein of valuable blue metal.

Then I retired the group of adventurers, and un-retired the fortress. I now have a fortress with a few dwarves, a human outsider with gremlin and black mamba pets, and a wolverine man doctor. However, I cannot assign any of them to noble or military position.

Hopefully they will have time to help clean the mess, make coffins and engrave slabs, etc. before getting too depressed due to seeing corpses and ghosts or meeting a hidden clown somewhere...

Maybe I should retire, re-send adventurers, retire them, unretire the fortress, etc. until I have enough workforce to rapidly clean the fortress.

Sounds like a mod mismatch to me. As I don't use "real" mods I don't have first hand experience, but things like changing the tile set to one for vanilla (as opposed to one bundled with the mod, or at least with mod installation instructions) can probably screw up things.

I'm not sure to understand your comment. I don't use tilesets.

I'm not even sure I use a mod, but if I use one, it's one that I've seen discussed on this forum, likely used by other players, and likely not messing with stone properties.

The only occurrence of RHYOLITE in raw/objects/ is in raw/objects/inorganic_stone_layer.txt and looks like a normal entry:

[INORGANIC:RHYOLITE]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:rhyolite][DISPLAY_COLOR:0:7:1][TILE:',']
[IGNEOUS_EXTRUSIVE]
[IS_STONE]
[MELTING_POINT:11440]
[SOLID_DENSITY:2600]


I found the valuable blue metal and carefully dug out some of it.

I built a craftsdwarf workshop, set its profile to strand extraction only, and checked that I had a dwarf with strand extraction activated.

I queued "Extract Metal Strands" on repeat in the workshop.

Then I noticed this cancellation spam:

Ingish Giginzasit, Engineer cancels Extract Metal Strands: Needs rhyolite.

WTF!?

No blue metal has been moved from the mining site yet. The job disappeared from the workshop.


Should I try to find rhyolite somewhere to see what happens?

I don't play a heavily modded version of the game. I think I only have one variant of modest mod, that I didn't tweak.


If you are curious, here's a save of the game some time before the blue metal has been dug out here: https://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=15206
I uploaded this save because of a crash. Since then, I think I managed to avoid the crash by setting fire to the stuck goblin siegers using df-hack's "liquids-here" command.

The blue metal will be dug out in an already designed extension of the bridge-protected tunnel at level 14 (one level above where hotkey F8 leads to). However, to get to that point, the crash must first be avoided (for instance by calling all the dwarves back inside and using the appropriate burrow before they spot the invaders and playing with cheat-lava as explained above to remove the apparent crash-trigger).

Was this shared here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913 ?

TLDR: Wearing masks seems to decrease the severity of the disease for those infected despite wearing the mask.
This might help populations acquire at least some partial immunity ((me commenting:) with lesser risks than letting everyone contaminate oneself happily in foolish COVID parties, and without having to rely too much on much-talked-about-but-not-yet-available vaccines).

I've always set up my militaries to use "specific weapons/armor" + "Replace clothing" + "Inactive = Uniformed," and I've almost never had any problems with militia-dwarves going into battle half-equipped, or spending all their time gathering new equipment.

Sorry for this late feedback: I've noticed that some of my dwarves where having unhappy thoughts due to being naked. I suspect this is due to them not managing well this "Replace clothing" setting.

What is this setting supposed to do, and why would it help avoiding mis-equipment?

In my fortress, the last 3 migration waves came with many dwarves having as only labour skills Animal Caretaker and/or Herbalist.

Are there some in-game reasons for this strong bias (like many plant gathering jobs needing to be done) or is this just a plain bug ?


Edit: I just checked the last of the 3 waves: There are combat, arts, social or scholar skills, and outside Animal Cartaker and Herbalist, the only labour skill is a Butcher.

I think I have a very similar issue with 0.47.04.

A miner got possessed, had claimed a mason workshop, gathered material and started a mysterious construction.

I was busy dealing with a siege and then some internal weremoose problems, so I had forgotten about this moody miner.

Then, I noticed him in a middle of a stairway, not moving. He stays there doing nothing, still "Possessed by unknown forces!". The workshop is still claimed, contains material used for the task.

I tried forbidding the material and reclaiming it. It is not indicated as "TSK" any more. The miner has not reacted.

I used "showmood" in DFHack, this is what is indicated:
[DFHack]# showmood
Bëmbul Uzolginet is currently possessed with intent to claim a Mason's Workshop and become a legendary Miner (but not really).
He has claimed a Mason's Workshop and wants the following items:
Item 1: rock boulder, quantity 3 (got 0)
Item 2: any bones, quantity 1 (got 0)
Item 3: metal bars, quantity 1 (got 0)
Item 4: any logs, quantity 1 (got 0)

(I did not try before messing with the tasked material, because I didn't know about showmood until finding the present thread.)

In the workshop, the bones got back a "TSK" label, but this didn't change what showmood displays. Now the "TSK" label is gone again. The miner still hasn't moved. Now "TSK" is back on the bones. I'm not sure what I do can influence this.

Ah, now the bones are not in the workshop any more, so maybe someone else took them.

I don't find this dwarf in the combat logs.

Curious bug.