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This seems like a bug, but I wanted to run it past the forums and see what you all think before I submit it to the bug tracker. Short Version: A military dwarf, after successfully creating an artifact and being removed from service, refuses to do any work at all.

Long Version: A migrant, Rith, comes with some minor skills, including Novice Weaponsmith; I draft him since I already had a better weaponsmith. While in individual combat drill, a fey mood takes him; he claims a forge and churns out an aluminum war hammer, becoming a legendary weaponsmith in the process. I remove him from his squad and order some weapons made. Rith does nothing. All the appropriate skills are enabled, but he won't smith, nor will he haul stone; he just sits in the statue garden, venturing out only for food and drink. He continues training if I redraft him. Things I've tried:

• Saving and reloading.
• Destroying and rebuilding the forge.
• Redrafting Rith and sacking him again.
• Freeing the Barracks his squad is assigned to.

So. Any ideas? What very obvious thing am I missing here?

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This is just a poll asking how often you folks get sieges. I am curious, because in one year I hosted two goblin sieges (one in Summer and one in Autumn, just after the caravan arrived), which seemed very unusual, since back in 2D Dwarf Fortress they came maybe once every 18 months. What are your experiences?

Here's the situation: I have two magma glass furnaces, both set to make green glass blocks on repeat, and a regular glass furnace set to gather sand on repeat. I have a handy-dandy stockpile next to the magma furnaces to hold the sand, and at the moment there are three sand bags in there, but I keep getting "No sand-bearing item" cancellations. I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but all three bags have decorations on them: turtle shell, silk image, etc.

My computer runs DF ok. 50 dwarves, 3x3 site, 30-45 FPS. But when I hit [c] and go to the civilization screen, that little screen with five lines of text, the FPS plummets. It shoots right down to single digits. I haven't heard of anybody else having this problem, and I think it's new to this version. Strange.

So I discovered a way to take a fancy bedroom and make it cost very little while still being 'modest,' 'decent,' whatever.

Here's what I did:

I built a new bedroom. 3x3, nice bed, coffer, and a cabinet. I hit [q] to set the room, but accidentally shrank the room size to cover only the bed and hit enter. Price: 11*. I instantly saw my mistake and resized the room to cover the whole space and the furniture. But the price stayed at 11*! Thinking I was on to something, I waited around until somebody rented it and I could look at the dwarf's owned items. Soon enough, a child rented the bedroom, and he has a modest bedroom, with chest and cabinet ... for 11*.

Since I'm tired of my hard-working dwarves from being evicted, I searched out all the unrented bedrooms of my fortress and reproduced this little trick, but it still seems like a bug.

[ February 01, 2008: Message edited by: Shzar ]

It's unusual that even the wealthiest nobles migrate on foot with the lowliest peasant. It would be neat if some nobles migrated inside a wagon. A touch of prestige for the wealthy, and some extra wood for the poor.