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... to test my changes for my goblin mod, and i have happened upon some... anomalies.

the big one here -

after being murdered, this goblin packs up and moves.  then a half century later, this corpse is taken prisoner.  this goblin is listed as having died in the year 7, but that does not have slowed him down any.

note:  if something is raised by a necromancer, that message is included in the legend mode recount of that creature.

then we have:


the goblin gods i have allowed seem to have a sense of humor. "I CURSE YOU, LIZARD MAN, TO BECOME A MANLIKE LIZARD WHEN THE MOON IS FULL!"

i asked this a while back in the little questions thread, a few times, to no response, so i'll make a thread.

recently, i have taken a squad of marksdwarves from a barracks with ten beds, coffers, cabinets, and one armor stand and weapon rack, and moved them to to a new barracks with the same setup.

in the original barracks, the squad was set for all activities(Z,I,Q, and T), and they had no shooting range.  in the new barracks, they only lack the training designation.  to counter this, i have set up an archery range.  there are ten archery targets.

the squad is down to four dwarves, two on duty any given month, with one month for the entire squad off.  the squad has, and always has had, the hunting labor active.

now, the problem is that once the dwarves were removed from the old barracks and assigned to the new, they hauled everything to the site.  the site happens to be in the same burrow as my nobles, and one promptly started snatching up items the dwarves brought in to store in the new barracks.

since then, my squad has been unable to equip itself.  they grab an empty quiver and their weapon, but refuse to gather any more equipment.  they then wander "unable to follow orders".  the entire squad recently wandered together into a nest of capybara, and killed them all with melee.

if i use the squad commands, such as a station order, they will all run off to the stockpiles, arm completely up, and follow my orders.  unfortunately, this leads to them always arriving to battle much to late to do anything.  furthermore, once the orders are canceled, they immediately switch over to hauling everything they just equipped back to a stockpile, switching task to pickup equipment, then back to the wandering.

so, what's wrong and how do i fix it?