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I believe the issues lay in stockpile links. I cleared all of them, and things seem to work now (although of course my tidy storage plan is all chaos now). As far as I could tell everything was set up properly, but I guess I missed something somewhere.

Came back to DF after a fairly long break...downloaded newest version, everything seems fine. Training up my metalsmith, I want to melt all the crap he has made. Designated 100 steel short swords to be melted down, have plenty of charcoal, but game insists it "needs melt designated item".

When I look in the stocks menu, or at the object on the map, it displays as being (M)elt designated, so I don't understand the issue. Did something change?


Thanks

I had an alert on when the wound occured, which would have prevented him from being recovered. After the alert was turned off, still no one recovered him.


He did eventually get to the hospital, unfortunately it happened when I wasn't paying attention so I don't know if he struggled in by himself or if someone grabbed him.

Hey guys...for some reason my dwarves won't recover wounded. Haven't had this problem before so I'm not too sure why they won't do it. I have a hospital with spare beds and so on, but they just refuse to go out and get the poor bastard.

Any ideas

They are currently iron battleaxes, although the nice shiny adamantine ones are next up on the forge, so we'll see what happens with them.

silly gobbos keep passing out after all their limbs are hacked off. wimps.

I've been noticing a recurring theme in a number of battles I have had so far: soldier focusing on the head, and repeatedly getting deflected by whatever the foe is wearing. This might sound reasonable...but it seems to be running rampant.

Ive got a number of legendary axe dwarves, and noticed one of them taking forever to kill a goblin swordsman in the last seige. I examined the combat reports, and found that there was three pages of  my axedwarf hacking the gobbo in the head, and bruising the head through the leather hood. The dwarf never struck anywhere except the head, which is good, except that he was not able to do anything except bruise the goblin.

I've seen similar behavior a number of times. Tyipcally, the dwarf incapacitates the goblin, the goblin falls unconcious or is stunned, and the dwarf begins beating away at the goblin head, never leaving a scratch. I have not yet seen the dwarf then manage to kill the goblin, instead the goblin has to be killed by another dwarf joining the fight later on.

I once even had a number of low skilled recruits and similar get stuck doing the same thing to a yak (I think). There were literally 3 or 4 dwarves around hacking away at the yak head, with no success.

Anyone noticed something similar?

I'll experiment with that, thanks.

I've got stacks and stacks of metal, bone, and wood bolts, and bolts enabled on the military screen for any material, training and combat, yet I cannot seem to make my marksdwarves carry them...at least not all the time. Typically out of a squad of 9 dwarves, only one or two actually have any bolts. They all have quivers.

What am I missing here? Ive never encountered this issue before.

I know in the previous versions (quite awhile ago now I guess), only metal bolts were carried in quivers whereas training bolts were carried in hand, but I havent noticed this in the current version.

Any tips?