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[Baijiu]

So I've been running this fortress for about 5 years, and there's now a generation of children growing up into peasants. Thing is, they can't seem to do any work I assign them, specifically, mining. I trapped some of them in a tunnel deep underground and I was planning on making them explore the caverns, but they can't mine. They'll grab the mining pick, but unlike my other miners who hold it with one hand, the three peasants multigrasp their pick.

They do the same thing with the axe I gave them as well, and they won't even build with stone that's near them. I thought maybe it was the tools, but there are two other migrants I trapped with them and they build/mine/chop like I tell them to.

What gives? Are all my peasants doomed to hollow lives of hauling?

[kardwill]

Aren't mining and woodcutting incompatible with each other, due to their conflicting "civilian uniform"?
(I could be completely wrong on that one, but did you try to give them ONLY mining, with no other job nor military uniform?)

[Baijiu]

Yep. They refused to use their pickaxes, so afterwards I tried to set them to cut wood but they refused to use the axes. I think it has to do with the fact that they're multigrasping the tools, which seems to indicate that they're too small to use them.

The peasants arrived at my fortress as children, so is it possible they didn't grow and are too small to use weapons properly?

[Garath]

I have regular children mining through therapist, so that shouldn't be it. They are not somehow also in a militairy squad, right?

[Baijiu]

Derp. I forgot to turn off the burrow. The peasants would pick up the tools but weren't interested in leaving.

How silly of me. ><