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Arse nal dwarf would have worked better if there hadn't been bugs too. Like deleted ammunition groups locking up the ammo so it can never be used again.

The flashing blue isn't as bad as the flashing green and red, but yeah I'd like to see hot stone and damp stone warnings stay solid instead of flashing too.

I embarked on a good area recently, and let me tell you I am LOVING the unicorn foods.

Hrm... I think I will outfit my dwarfs in unicorn leather.

Nothing quite like slaughtering masses of unicorns, hehe.

I tested it in 31-08, to get arsenal dwarfs to assign bolts and hunters to equip bolts:

Have a hunter with the skill enabled. Arsenal dwarf will not assign bolts to a group without a hunter with the skill turned on.

Create a bolt group or two in military ammo screen for hunters - m - f. NEVER delete the bolt groups. If you delete it, the bolts get "locked up" and will never be reassigned. The arsenal dwarf will refill bolt groups as new bolts are made.

Turn on forbid used ammo or else your bolt groups will get filled with recycled single bolts, and your hunters will go out hunting with 2 bolts.

Hunters seem to ignore the bolt group stack sizes after they get refilled a few times. I had it set to 100 but they would only pick up one stack at a time most of the time, though they had 100 bolts at a time before.

The hunter should have a quiver and a crossbow. Once the bolt groups are filled (bolts will be listed in the rightmost panel) - pause and disable the hunting labor on your hunter, then unpause briefly, once the hunter is heading to the weapon stockpile to drop off their weapon, pause again and re-enable hunting. The hunter should drop their crossbow off in the weapon stockpile, pick it back up again, and then go get some bolts and go hunting. Each time they run out of ammo, repeat this last step.


Bolts purchased from a caravan, and bolts that belonged to a deleted bolt group, will never be reassigned by the arsenal dwarf. Consider them useless for hunting.


I tested this carefully but may have missed a step, let me know if this doesn't work for you.

Looking forward to the next release.

My partner downloaded DF several months ago and now when he plays it's like I don't exist. I feel like a World of Warcraft widow! I've tried repeatedly deleting his init/ directory, but he doesn't seem to get annoyed enough to stop playing. Any chance you could put a time limit on how long the game can be played at a time? Please? Kind of desperate here!

Play DF with him! Mention that you would like to play a succession fort with him.

I was ordering them to move.

I'm seeing this happening now in hunting too, I think it is a bug in pathfinding that happens when there are more units on the map. If the hunter's prey runs out of range, the hunter flips out and absolutely HAS to pathfind to whatever spot he was going to, even if the prey ran in the opposite direction and is now on the other side of the map. Usually by the time the hunter realizes what is going on, the prey has left the map, taking a dozen stuck-in bolts with them. I haven't been able to kill a damn thing in over a year, with 5 hunters.

The bug seems to happen when there are more dwarfs. I noticed other bugs in pathfinding too with more dwarfs, my dwarfs USED to sleep in their assigned beds but now they sleep wherever they can, usually in the first available bed or sometimes on the open ground. I'm on a 2x2 embark so distance should not be a problem.