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Dwarf Fortress => DF Gameplay Questions => Topic started by: PolarBair on July 12, 2020, 11:44:41 am

Title: equipping squad issue
Post by: PolarBair on July 12, 2020, 11:44:41 am
I just made a bunch of full sets of steel armor for my squad and I'm equipping them individually assigning specific pieces to them. I have it set to wear over civilian clothing and exact matches but so far every one of them is leaving their gauntlets and boots behind. Anyone know what might be a common cause of that? Could it be the 'wear over civilian clothing' thing?
Title: Re: equipping squad issue
Post by: Leonidas on July 12, 2020, 11:45:46 am
I always do replace armor clothes.
Title: Re: equipping squad issue
Post by: anewaname on July 12, 2020, 12:02:49 pm
Wiki (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Armor) says this "Also, if you do not tell dwarves to replace clothing with a uniform, they will wear it alongside the uniform and possibly come into conflict with layering and sizes/permits, making them unable to wear assigned items. Particularly, caps conflict with helms (both are shaped items), and shoes are too large to fit inside boots."

It applies to mittens and gauntlets also.

I currently use Replace for military that expects to see action (emergency response dwarfs), and use Over Clothing for the civilian militia.
Title: Re: equipping squad issue
Post by: PolarBair on July 12, 2020, 02:16:07 pm
I thought that might be it. I just don't want them leaving their clothes all over the place.
Title: Re: equipping squad issue
Post by: Moeteru on July 12, 2020, 05:01:16 pm
Dwarves should tend to take owned clothes back to their bedrooms.
For cleaning up un-owned clothes, I recommend using a setup something like this:
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The low and high quality stockpiles can be combined together into a single all-quality stockpile if you don't want to waste newly produced clothing. I still see the odd sock lying around, but they usually get cleared up pretty quickly.
Title: Re: equipping squad issue
Post by: Leonidas on July 12, 2020, 05:28:28 pm
The LNP has some sort of default DFHack setting that helps a lot with this. I think it periodically unforbids and dumps old clothes left lying around.

I try to get rid of clothing as much as possible. It wears out much too quickly for my taste, and there's no efficient way to get rid of the old unwanted stuff. Maybe a stockpile setting for worn items would help.
Title: Re: equipping squad issue
Post by: knutor on July 12, 2020, 10:49:12 pm
I use overclothing and exact on every squad. But I leave the loose option in the uniform, for example: Metal Footwear, instead of Steel Low Boots. I melt down all the rest.

Ive also started using a limbo uniform. If he's deploying with a lack of coverage. I use an Empty uniform and toggle squads according to their priorities.

I've yet to get this missing boot bug, myself. I do get dorfs showing up in goblinite, and their loinclothes, socks, etc. I dont mind them using goblin underclothing.