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Yeah I understand the mechanics, or at least I figured them out.  Figured trying to use military to recover was worth a shot.  I wasn't so much asking "Why is this happening", as I was just relating what I thought was a funny interpretation of what did happen.  And I will send in my goons and I will recover my fallen rookie, because that's how I roll!    Even if it does mean losing 14 live targets for practice.  And I will take the time to put in the drawbridges this time.

But I do feel that recover wounded is a job military squad members should do while on duty.  If the dwarf himself is not being actively attacked, and is not seeing someone else being actively attacked, then I feel recovering wounded should be a priority, and not interrupted just by the sight of a non-attacking goblin.

So last invasion I caught 16 gobs in traps and managed to pit all 16 into my live target xbow training pit without a single one escaping.  Set my marksdwarves to their live train schedule and I go to tend to other things.  A little later I notice a recover wounded job cancel due to goblin axeman message.  I got to the pit and there is  the newest xbow squad member, nicknamed 'Effengee", laying on the ground, his right leg with a coating of dwarf blood and 2 coatings of dwarf tears.  I thought I had confiscated all the gobs weps but must have missed a bow.  Meanwhile one of his squadmates is still patrolling, stepping over his fallen comrade each lap.  I guess he figures its not his job, he's on patrol.  I didn't put in the raising bridges like the wiki showed to block sight, so every time a civie rounds the solid wall and comes to the 1st fortification, he sees a gob and runs away.  I don't really blame him, he's a civie after all, so I disable recover wounded jobs for all civies and enable it on all military.  Another bowman comes on patrol, now poor Effengee has 2 squad members stepping over and ignoring him each lap.  Finally, a 3rd squadmate comes in on a recover wounded mission, turns the corner, sees a gob... and runs away.  Mind you he is still wearing all his gear and carrying his xbow, and if he was patrolling he would walking around and shooting no problem.  Guess it's every dwarf for himself in this dwarf's army.  Ah well, guess I'll have to bring up the meat cleaver squad and open the door and finish them all off so I can get the poor guy to the hospital.

I've been working hard trying to rotate all my stone detailers, tanners, weavers and all useless mood skill dwarves through the magma forges so they can get basic weapon and armor skills for moods.  Doing pretty good, out of 120 adults, I have 27 with armor as highest mood skill and 34 with weapon.  Other than 2 tanners and one detailer, all the rest are in somewhat useful skills.  So what reward do I get for my efforts?  Just had my 4th mood in a row go to a kid.  I have 3 legendary woodcrafters ages 3, 4, and 4, and another 4 year old just got a mood, so getting ready to have 4.  I guess in another 8 years I'll be good to go as far as making worthless wooden trinkets.

The human caravan route goes right over my refuse pile.  Will corpses in a refuse pile spook them, or only ones on ground?  Guess to be safe I'll move refuse pile to other side of fort and throw some walls around it to block sight.

No, just one.  Like I said I tore it down and rebuilt it in the same spot

I make one stockpile for raw gems and a 2nd stockpile for cut gems.

Now that I think about it, maybe I did channel down into a warm stone at the end of the hallway below, and that was the hallway that flooded.  I didn't actually see it when it breached, and it was only my 2nd fort so I was still pretty clueless about what was happening.  Not that I'm any kind of expert now    I just remember that it was 70 or so z's from the lowest I'd dug to where the breach occurred, and that a 70 z magma waterfall really takes its toll on  FPS.  Now that I think about it more, pathing could have been as big an issue as the flow itself.  Was getting constant job cancel spam from everyone trying to go to the lower levels and pick up rocks but the only stairwell was blocked.  If it happened now I would try a 70 z mass forbid and see if that helped.

Thanks!  That did the trick!  So much better now.