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Yovatsap

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Random dwarves getting farming experience?
« on: May 31, 2012, 12:48:22 pm »

Anybody know what's causing this? I mean I'm not complaining but it seems kind of weird. (and I might want to exploit it for other skills :D)

MetalGear

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Re: Random dwarves getting farming experience?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2012, 12:53:39 pm »

Could it possibly be caused by them picking crops from the farm plot? Because, I think, all dwarves have have that labour enabled.
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weenog

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Re: Random dwarves getting farming experience?
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2012, 12:57:09 pm »

You can stop that by toggling Dwarves All Harvest to Only Farmers Harvest in the standing orders menu, if you want.
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Re: Random dwarves getting farming experience?
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2012, 12:58:08 pm »

What he said.  In the o)rders menu you have "all dwarves harvest" enabled.  This is causing small amounts of xp for every dwarf that harvests a plant.  You can change it to only growers harvest if you'd like.  That will cause your farmers to skill-up faster, although it's not really a noticeable difference.

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Re: Random dwarves getting farming experience?
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2012, 01:24:50 pm »

since most my fort is busy, this usually means for me that children get to skill 4 before they grow up, or higher
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