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I have a combat going on... have an elegant trap...

yet my dwarfs are ignoring the restriction to burrows to run to a place not within a burrow at all, to replace cage traps...

why oh why...

they are not military dwarf's, and I DO have the burrow enabled.   I tried assigning the same to both alerts (civilian and active) to no luck.

seriously, they are running all over my spiked traps!  wtf!  That's for the bad guys!

update:

hmm, troubleshooting... I reloaded, and set to one burrow, and they respect it... but during combat they weren't... using the same burrows

update:

op... here they go again, running outside when the vile force of darkness arrives, wtf!

I created a new spreadsheet (in ods!) that allows you to assign labors efficiently and much quicker than before.

http://www.mediafire.com/?b8tdwkp7vdkg81g

sumif in ods wasn't working right, here is an excel and ods file
http://www.mediafire.com/?3fjh9p62yw25xme

http://www.mediafire.com/?usyu3qcwie5qikk

hopefully you can figure it out, but basically I have the labors on the second sheet setup the way I want it, the order is based on the variables assigned in the first sheet (based on the MPWeight column), you can just ignore this and reorder the labors on the second sheet to your liking.

The bordered box's on the second sheet is what you set, and the gray column represents the # of dwarf's you should assign to each labor.

The jobs per box is a filter you need to set in the script editor as such
d.total_assigned_labors()<5

and start assigning labors one at at time!

btw my filter script looks like this (for miners vs ambushers vs woodcutters, I edit as needed when I assign those labors)
d.total_assigned_labors()<5
//&&
//(!d.labor_enabled(00))
//&&
//(!d.labor_enabled(44))

sometimes, when I update a script, it gets buggy...

I want to make new script, but the old one get's overwritten

I remember this happening with an older version...

sometimes the only way to get around it was to close, and reopen and create a new one.

thanks splinterz!

Btw, I now only use your version.  I don't bother with the patches I had before, yours seems to work well enough with my own sheets.

I'd still like:

1. an assign top x number of (visible) dwarf's per labor option, i.e. I have a filter excluding dwarf's over x number of labors, so what I see on the screen is what I want to assign, I sort by labor, and then choose the top x (x varies per labor) number of dwarf's that r at the top of my sort.  It would be a lot faster if I didn't have to do the sort as well as the counting of those top x (I sent a patch file that Shish had, this kind of does it, but I have to do two things with it, filter by race, minimize the grouping, then sort by labor, then I can right click a box by the race grouping underneath the labor column, and choose assign top x, enter a number, hit enter, commit... but as soon as I do this, I have to repeat those steps for the next labor, very tedious).

2. and somewhere on the screen showing the number of currently selected dwarf's (so I can stop counting them manually).

Update:

I've decided to use shish's patch, it's too much of pain not to with the way I assign labors.

BUILD BABY BUILD!

yeah, that's what I did...  yet no training.  did you not see that when I said I went in the menu and assigned them?

Update:

That was it, damn new zones...

Quote from: Garath on May 14, 2012, 03:34:55 am

make a room. make a door. make a pasture. put animals in room. make door impassable for pets. done

note that too many animals in a small room will fight and that that won't happen in a cage. A cage can hold... a lot, but won't allow new pregnancies for females that are inside (which is actually quite useful).

that's useful.

i don't want cages, as it would take too long to release them (war animals) during war.

So I'll build a wall around the pen/pasture, create doors, make them pet impassable, problem mostly solved (unless a dorf takes his assigned war animal out of the room for any reason, I guess I'll also have to unassign all the war animals from the pasture during war time).

I have an idea, a floodgate that prevents them from passing until war, but they'll fight...  They won't if the area is large enough.

btw, I set them to train from the z menu, and assigned any available trainer... I have trainers... nothing is happening...

is there a way to hotkey, or autohotkey certain dfhack commands, I'd love to have the sort-units name as a hotkey