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I have made squads of wrestlers in the past to meet their needs for practicing a martial art. I just set them to having a small number of them training every month. They would all get a round eventually. It was really useful when I was trying to combat stress because they would get happy thoughts when they improved their skills.Do you remove them from the squad afterwards? Even with Wrestlers, when the combat skill is high enough, they prefer to use their free time for more training instead of any other job.
Does anyone have any tips for setting up military squads for the purpose of fulfilling the various fighting or martial art needs? I've tried to setup squads will alternating months of training, but the problem is that dwarves in squads that are "active" yet not training will prefer to do individual combat drills during idle time rather than socializing. Disbanding the entire squad works, but then you have recreate and re-add people to the squads later on. So far it seems like setting the squad as 'inactive' from the 's' menu AND freeing the barracks from the corresponding furniture(i.e. an armor stand) gives me the results I'm looking for. Is there a better way that does not require those two manual actions? Ideally, I'd like it to be automatic.In the previous version, bar fights were sufficient, if unpredictable. As you say, active but no orders military with enough experience will eventually prefer training over other jobs regardless. I don't have an answer, just recommend that you note their stress shifts from the unmet need, as best you can.
Eh, why not. I'll toss Smallhands that tenth vote. I've been reading it this whole time after all.Smallhands is recognized as a Legendary Succession Fort. Party hats indeed
I trimmed the synopsis of Drunk Fort a bit, and removed the finished/active tags, since most Legends fall into the former category anyways. Will be doing the same for the other categories. Stay warm my fellow Dorfs.
Would you ever take recommendations for YouTube content?
Kruggsmash makes some epic content... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j05mr5F69H0
It's too hard to pick out any specific tale, so as an epic general artist / storyteller, the collective works of Kruggsmash gets a vote from me too.
Plus one from me.
+1 to the collective tales of Kruggsmash.
+1 to Kruggsmash. As a whole, he's up there with Boatmurdered.
+ 1 to Kruggsmash. I have enjoyed all his work since I started watching it.
+1 to the collective works of Kruggsmash
+1 to the collective works of Kruggsmash
What the hey, +1 to Kruggsmash.
I'll add a bonus vote for Kruggsmash
+1 to Smallhands
+1 to Smallhands
+1 to Smallhands. Certainly the most interesting community fort I've been a part of!
I just noticed that despite several votes for Dawnthunder, there has only been one actually recorded. I thought I should point that out.
<3Huh? Isn’t it speled correctly than?Look at your own post title. It was wrong before, and still is in this quote thread.
Well, I'm going to fix it in this post to help cover up your shame, Immortal-D. Don't worry, I've got your back.
While it's true that personality changes are supposed to be legit, it seems like the frequency remains close to pre-patch, which is to say near constant.2 things, sadly I can't get any more from this fort because of some crash whenever the caravan comes in the fall:Glad someone else has seen tavern keepers kill themselves. Thought it was only me...
personality changes don't really seem any easier to prevent. It just seems like now they all decide to change their worldview because someone left a plump helmet on the floor and it got stinky once. A single helmet changed 3 of my starting 7, including turning my baron into a nervous wreck.
Do any of the new conversations involve booze in any way, shape, or form? After like, a year of nobody drinking themselves to death I've had it happen more than once per fort since the patch (2/3rds of the time without the help of a tavern keeper, tho the third time the tavern keeper herself committed death by booze before her first season on the job was even over).
Personality changes aren't meant to be prevented. The issue is if those changes make your dwarves unplayable. Are the personality changes actually causing mass unrecoverable depression spirals?
I swear I know how that word is spelledIf you mean you don't understand the point being made, it's that the word is "psyche".The thread title is likely to send me into a tantrum.Lol? I'm genuinely curious about this.
... does that count?
edit: Oh I see the old one had the same spelling. Perhaps it is an historic matter I was unaware of.
I'm honestly surprised nobody called it in the previous thread.
I would like to nominate Smallhands: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=175473.0
Ghouls, Necromancy, Feverish Goo, and !!SCIENCE!! all in a small space. Also the home of the first truly unkillable dwarf.
+1 To smallhands.
Thanks for the nomination, fat_cat. If it's not too self-satisfying, I'll vote formy childSmallhands.
I also deliver a +1 to SmallHands.
+1 for Smallhands
+1 to smallhands
Would you ever take recommendations for YouTube content?Kruggsmash has been nominated in the past as 'the collective works of...'. If you want to highlight a specific story, that's fine. Otherwise he'll be added as a general artist / storyteller.
Kruggsmash makes some epic content... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j05mr5F69H0
The thread title is likely to send me into a tantrum.Lol? I'm genuinely curious about this.
... does that count?
edit: Oh I see the old one had the same spelling. Perhaps it is an historic matter I was unaware of.
Yeah, the whole 'dwelling upon / remembering x_event' chain reaction is something to be tested anew.That's not what was said. We've yet to see a report on whether permanent shock at recurring memories has been fixed or not.So I don't want to be a bummer but I'm at 7 Slate first year in the first fort generated with the new patch and just got my first "Cheesemaking Cancelled: Experiencing Emotional Shock" message.
I hope this is not a sign of what is to come.
I've had this before on 47.xx ish, a farmer became shellshocked after seeing someone die infront of them and were intermittently traumatized for the 5 year span of the rest of their life (i forget the exact circumstance, but they were savaged by the captain of the guard who exploded their foot or tore out their throat, one or the other, that guard didn't care about mortal wounds). It shouldn't really coalese, but i guess the extremes might work both ways for tears of joy and the like.
I suggest you expel them at soonest notice and see if they migrate back to the site with stress reset or least offload the problem indefinitely.
New strange mood dwarf, I checked his workshop, and he has cloth. I believe he wants bone (he is drawing skeletons). Have plenty of bones lying around from all the butchered llamas and pangolins. Maybe he wants the bones of a specific creature?Are the bones outside, or in a stockpile? It shouldn't matter, but since he found cloth, I'm rather stumped as to why this Dorf is stuck.
Currently running the newest version of DF, so dfhack is not an option yet.
