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Actually, not just that, my military doesn't seem to be following it's schedule anymore either, is this looking like a lost cause?

Edit - I think this may have all started when my original millitia commander died from injuries in the hospital.

My arsenal dwarf seems to have stopped doing his job at some point, I equipped my dwarves with training weapons earlier on and have managed to switch a couple of them out to real weaponry, but the rest are holding on to the training gear. I've switched them for specific weaponry on the militray screen and my arsenal dwarf isn't busy with anything. Another thing that keeps happening is when I assign my squad to attack an incoming ambush half of them just keep running in and out of my fortress, do scheduled orders (patrol, train, etc) interfere with direct orders (attack)?

I'm guessing this is all just glitches but I wanted to check, my fort has ground to a halt until I can deal with one tiny little goblin ambush, and my dwarves are trying to bruise them to death with bits of wood or just running around like idiots.

Under the stocks menu, in animals, mark them to be butchered. The rest will take care of itself.

Ah, beautiful, I think you may have just solved another half dozen questions I had at the same time, I forgot about the stocks menu.

Hrm, so based on what you are saying, you were able to grow plump helmets at one time, but now you cannot?  or have you ever been able to grow them?

The reason I ask is because in the current version of DF there is a fairly well known bug where all surfaces must be muddied in order to allow subterranean plants to be sown there.

Maybe you happened to smooth the floors underneath your farm plot thus removing the mud thus disallowing plump helmets to be planted, or maybe you have never been able to plant them?, I cant really tell from your initial post.  Regardless, if the ground under your plots is not muddy, that will definintely keep you from planting anything there, so I would check that for sure.(K and move the cursor over the plot, you should see some mention of mud if it is there).

Didn't think that was a bug, thought it was new gameplay. Yes, muddied the earth before I laid down a farm plot, was growing plump helmets for a while, now told there are no seeds that can be planted on the plot, can't find any plump helmet seeds anywhere, don't ever see them when plump helmets get consumed.

Just started playing again since the latest version came out, starting to remember that long lost felling of poking at dwarves with sticks and wondering why they won't do what I want them too. Current problem is that plump helmet spawns have suddenly stopped producing seeds upon eating / brewing in the middle of a game. My farm has dried up and I'm just being told there are no seeds available for planting, or something similar. I have seeds enabled in my food stores, is this some other change made to farming now?

Thanks for the help.

Just started up my first adventure after abandoning my first fortress, have had some luck in taking out a giant and looted everything nearby, but I can't find anywhere to sell it all off. I've completely searched through 3 dwarven settlements and even a couple of elven ones, spoken to everyone I could see just in case but I haven't seen hide nor hair of a shop, is this normal? Is there something really obvious that I'm missing or do I just need to keep searching?