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You're absolutely right, that was a very silly mistake I made. No mention of the transformation, and I could've sworn I was seeing them pop-up in real time, but it switches from "werepig" to "werepig miner". Thank you!

A forgotten beast (Dunanlebes Telular Milol, a towering one-eyed monkey with three long, spiral horns who squirms and fidgets) came into my caverns, wandered around, killing troglodytes and the like by pummeling them with his "large osprey leather chausse" and then left.

A weaponsmith of mine was hauling wood when I received an alert that he cancelled this task because he was unconscious. I checked reports and it said, "The birch logs strikes the weaponsmith in the right upper leg, and the injured part is crushed!" Is this a bug, or do logs actually fall when they're chopped from a tree, and the weaponsmith was in the wrong place at the wrong time? Either way, pretty funny that it thinks of this interaction as combat.

Update 2: The dwarves don't seem to be frozen anymore per se, but (unless I just don't understand dwarf fortress combat) they don't seem to be doing much. They'll dodge attacks, but apart from my markspeople they won't attack. There are more announcements now also, including dwarves cancelling jobs due to not finding a path.

I doubt there is a syndrome that might cause these things. Have you cleared all burrow designations or assignments?

I don't currently have any burrow assignments...

I would try removing them from the military, re-assigning them, then ordering them to move around and see what happens.

I thought this might work... but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

It might be the case that these three dwarves are assigned specific weapons, instead of say a uniform, and are desperate to re-acquire whatever sword or shield they lost in the fight. Changing equipment might help this.

They're assigned a type of weapon (warhammers and spears, not sure if that's what you mean by specific weapons), I would imagine unassigning and reassigning them to the squad would fix it if this were the problem, but it doesn't seem to fix it. Thanks for the suggestions though.

The fact it's cancelled due to not finding a path would lead me to believe something is blocking a path, or they're going for an item that's out of reach for some reason. Dwarves tend to replace items when a better one becomes available, so did the dead dwarf maybe drop a high quality item the three might be going after, but the item is in an odd place?

This was my initial thought as well, especially since some of my dwarves have no armor at all (I've got tons of silver, but no iron or copper), they might be trying to pick up some of the salvaged armor of dead dwarves. That being said I'm not sure how the path could be blocked, the military dwarves made their way to the beast to begin with. Thanks anyway.

I recently got my first Forgotten Beast attack in a while (a huge three-eyed pterosaur with a square shell for anyone interested), and some strange things occurred.

I immediately set my squads onto attacking it, which they did, after a lengthy descent into the caves. Things were going as expected (a dwarf died, but military mostly held its own) but after about a minute I noticed that everyone stopped moving, forgotten beast and dwarves. After pausing and looking around a bit, I found that I was being spammed with thousands upon thousands of alerts telling me that members of my military (only three specific names though) were cancelling the "pickup equipment" task because they couldn't find a path.

I'm not talking announcement spam like when you run out of barrels, I got 50 pages of announcements in the span of like 30 seconds. The game might just be slowing down, and that's why no one is moving, but I have no clue how to address the problem. Interestingly, the dwarves (actually one dwarf and two goblins) are being called by their civilian titles (i.e. dancer, poet) instead of their military titles. I'll try restarting the game, but not sure if that'll do any good (regardless, it'd be nice if it didn't happen again).

Is this a known bug, or is this some strange anomaly?
Thanks for any advice!

That is correct, it took a few tries for me to realize that.

I have a strange mood pending which only requires shells (I know I should have already had shells I just forgot to make a fishery beforehand). But my dwarves simply will not clean any mussels (of which I have many) and insist on cleaning salmon! Is there any way to choose a specific fish, or type of fish to clean. I tried forbidding other fish in the z-stocks menu, but I could not see any specific fish; I guess that's because my bookkeeper is not precise enough. Any help would be much appreciated.

Please save my dwarf, thanks.
Economic Snake

I had a question about levers; Pretty much all of my dwarves have the "Lever Operation" labor enabled, but when I create a task to pull the lever, the dwarf who decides to do that task is halfway across the fortress. How does it decide which dwarf does it?