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Not entirely sure what else to call this one. I have around 500 plants, 70 fish, and even a little meat, but for some reason, the only food my planter wants to eat is a single piece of rat weed, which just so happens to be right next to a zombie mountain goat who's been fighting a black bear for probably about a year now. Planter originally grabbed it to eat, walked by the fight, and dropped it in the doorway. Now it's stuck trying to eat only that, to the point he's starving now. I've forbidden it several times, I've restricted civilians to burrows that don't include it, I've tried to get him to think it's much shorter to get to the food stockpile, still only wants that rat weed.

Edit: I managed to lock him in a room, he switched to hunting small creatures. Unlocked it, he left for a while, got thirsty and went to the stockpile to drink while still starving, and upon finishing drinking, went straight back to try to get that rat weed. Every time he's on eat, if I unforbid and reforbid that rat weed, he'll cancel eat due to job item being lost or destroyed, then instantly pick the eat job back up for that one rat weed.

Edit 2: Finally got him to eat. I had to trick him into being locked in the room again, then while he was, built a second wall so that every door between him and the food were locked, then he finally went and got some prepared food. I'm surprised he didn't starve to death before it happened.

This is probably related to the iron goblets bug, but it's not metal related and it's from an artifact.
I had a bonecarver get possessed, claim a craftshop, grabbed three shells and a rough gem, then got to work. Upon completion, he came out with ... an iron figurine. Strangely, the iron figurine that appeared out of nowhere has three images in turtle shell and an image in gray chalcedony. All the materials were used, so nothing was forgotten. He just materialized an iron idol out of nowhere to do the work on.

New fortress, first elven caravan shows up and brings me some presents ...
 
I would have loved to have some of those ... But not now.

To my knowledge, it's only cold, not freezing. Half of my lakes have unfrozen already, I wouldn't think they would have died from the cold. There are wild animals, trees, plants, and my hunter dwarf in the area the elven caravan showed up at, and they seem to be living just fine. Aside from the occasional hoary marmot with a bolt in its face.

Started a new fort near the ocean, just had my first elven caravan come and go. One of the cages I bought had a tame hedgehog in it. I placed the cage and tried to release it, just for the heck of it, and after unpausing for two seconds, one person tried to release it and failed three times since I have no traps. Ten unpaused seconds later, I have another twelve fail to release messages. Same person, same reason.

Not a big problem, just felt someone should know. I'd think it'd at least re-assign it to the cage or something to prevent such spam.

Playing on a mostly mountain map, got my first wave of immigrants in the first summer and, they're just standing there in the top right corner with No Job, long enough that migrant status had worn off and they were starting to get thirsty. The path straight to my fortress would involve falling off cliffs, but I've walked it manually and you can get there just going down ramps. They stayed up there doing nothing until I carved out a stairway that went up three Z levels, which I find funny because the miners mined out the top and bottom first, then the middle connection later on, so I know dwarves can path up there manually. Just not the immigrants.

Edit: I keep forgetting to mention, this is [33e] that this is happening with, and the thing I'm pointing out is that it was fixed immediately after I constructed stairs nearby even though they should have had a path.

[ December 09, 2007: Message edited by: ein Syndication ]