Hello,
I've got an problem concerning my hunters: they just won't go hunting anymore. First of all, this is not one of those issues you can read a million times about here in the forum, with the hunters not picking up equipment while being in a military squad because of conflicting uniforms and all that stuff.
Nope, that's all fine. Checklist:
- the hunters are civilians. Not in the military, not currently, and never been.
- hunting labor is enabled, everything else is disabled.
- hunters have been assigned a number of bolts from the military ammo screen, either specific ones (bone, metal, wood) or just "bolts". I tried both settings with different numbers, no difference.
- they've picked up a crossbow, a quiver and bolts (usually, sometimes they won't pick up bolts, doesn't matter though).
- there's plenty of stuff to hunt outside (regular/giant ground-based animals, no humanoid versions, no flying or aquatic beasts).
- they're free to go outside. No burrows and nothing blocking the way.
But they won't hunt. After picking up their equipment, they're just idling around, status menu says "No job".
Disabling hunting labor makes them store their equipment in the respective stockpiles, re-enabling hunting makes them pick it up and go into idle mode again. As I said, sometimes they won't pick up their bolts, but that seems to be another, unrelated issue, since they won't do anything even if their quiver is full.
I'm playing 0.34.11, unmodded except for Ironhand's tileset, and I remember hunting working just fine in older versions. Can't say I'm doing anything different either: enable hunting, let them pickup their equipment and off they'd go. Not anymore, though.
Any ideas?