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Eschar

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Jobs appear in purple, followed with exclamation point
« on: July 20, 2017, 06:00:13 pm »
Recently, I've noticed a job in the unit screen being displayed in the above-described manner; my chief medical dwarf is Meditating on Water!. I'm guessing it means the dwarf is going insane or is stressed, but I couldn't confirm it on the wiki.
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Re: Jobs appear in purple, followed with exclamation point
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2017, 06:10:47 pm »
Hard-to-interrupt location-based need-fulfilling job. See DF2014:Need - Dwarf Fortress Wiki for details.
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Re: Jobs appear in purple, followed with exclamation point
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2017, 07:32:23 pm »
I've seen that in my last fort as well. Are they at a location when they do that? In my game they're usually at the temple thinking about those random things when they are not praying. Don't worry too much, just be glad he's not at the tavern picking a fight with one of your legendary militia men
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Re: Jobs appear in purple, followed with exclamation point
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2017, 08:08:57 am »
Purple just means that the dwarf is going to finish the task before doing something else.  The green versions are stand-ins for "no job" and if a task comes up, the dwarf with the green version of the job will go do that new task.
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Re: Jobs appear in purple, followed with exclamation point
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2017, 07:44:28 pm »
Quote from: Fleeting Frames on July 20, 2017, 06:10:47 pm
Hard-to-interrupt location-based need-fulfilling job. See DF2014:Need - Dwarf Fortress Wiki for details.

This is correct. The also happens for scholarly jobs too though so the scholars aren't interrupted during their work. This is usually something like "ponder on circles".
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Re: Jobs appear in purple, followed with exclamation point
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2017, 08:50:04 pm »
Maybe would prefer if scholarly jobs were green, perhaps. Iirc, a single one takes between 2 to 4 days to yield 5 exp. It'd be nice if your mechanic would make the occasional mechanism for unplanned lever without being removed from the position first. Though in that case they might just constantly hang around in tavern instead, so this might be lesser evil.
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