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Yeah I had them with "Individual choice: melee" too, but one of them was immigrant with Novice Knife User skill so he decided the best weapon for him would be a dagger, and equipped it.

Try setting PARTIAL_PRINT to YES in the init.txt. I got 4x more FPS after this.

This is about the crash that happens when you try to select a specific squad in the "Positions" section of the Military Screen. If you are unlucky enough that the first squad on the list is the one causing the crash, you probably get a crash every time when entering Military Screen.

It seems that the crash happens when one or more of the members of the crashing squad is assigned with large dagger as a weapon.
The exact cause seems to be DAGGER skill used by large dagger.

The workaround I found is changing this skill, my military screen no longer crashes after this change.
To fix it go to raws folder of your save, the path is something like
"<DFfolder>\data\save\region<whatever>\raw\objects",
find "item_weapon.txt" file,
find [ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_DAGGER_LARGE] entry,
then change [SKILL:DAGGER] to some other skill, [SKILL:SWORD] seems the most appropriate.

Post in this thread if it fixed the crash for you.

Here is Bug Tracker report about this crash:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=378

If you discover any new causes or workarounds to this crash, post in the bug tracker.


_{--I am posting this here because you can't make new threads in DF Bug Reports section of the forum.}

So Valdemar, do you have an actual prototype DF v.31 with this implemented in the game? If yes, can you post a download link of it?

Read the first post again.
What he did is a program in Javascript that immitates how that screen would look like in DF. There is nothing else except what you can see on that screen, you can use keys and see how stuff changes, but there is no actual dwarves, or any actual game logic there.

Tried changing their schedule to defend burrow, then canceling their 'Station' order. They changed to civilian state and run to do various tasks...
I am getting even more frustrated.

I have another attack now, and can't get my dwarves to stand behind the corner waiting for goblin crossbowmen to come... They just do suicide runs to the goblins once any of them get line of sight.

Thanks for the wiki page.
I found the military screen a little hard to understand at first, but once I got into it, I found it is very functional and gives you a lot of control.

I have one question:
Can you set what skill your dwarves will train?
My militia commander only gives Dodge lessons so far. I am afraid they will stay with 'Recruit' title for some time because of that, which causes them to gain a bad thought every time they are drafted...

Quote from: NoctisVampire on April 03, 2010, 07:26:20 am

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EDIT2: Why not try to determine that how often creatures can be milked...I'm smelling a possible exploit here...

It seems to me like once a month the milk regenerates, and giving birth doesn't lead to increased milk output, unfortunately. If the output was more than 1 milk I could have a nice cheese roast industry.

For me it seems that it is once a season.
Also I have produced cow cheese[2] somewhat, I am sure it didn't came from merchants. Either the cow produced stack of 2 milk, or milker stacked the milk from 2 cows into one stack, or cheese maker stacked the cheese. 

As it always were. Wood burners always were in farmers group.