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firsal

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Enraged by patrol duty
« on: January 13, 2014, 04:02:23 am »
My militia dwarves are training well, via danger room, and have their equipment and regukar schedule for patrol, training and off time. But, as it seems, negative thoughts from long patrol duty seems to escalate. While usually this isn't a problem, most dwarves become very unhappy during the occasional skewering of newborns in the danger room. Is this a bug? If so, how can I offset it?
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Re: Enraged by patrol duty
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2014, 04:30:07 am »
It's a bug. You can offset it via more happy thoughts for your military.
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Re: Enraged by patrol duty
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2014, 06:31:13 am »
as the wiki could have told you. The wiki is a big help, I'd really suggest you use it.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Military

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Current Reported Military-Related Bugs
 When selecting new dwarves to place in a squad the cursor always returns to the first available dwarf instead of remaining where it is.
 There are still various problems with dwarves not equipping what they should; most notably, dwarves will try to equip two left gauntlets or two right gauntlets rather than one of each. This happens if there are an odd number of gauntlets of any quality level; the dwarves try to equip two gauntlets of the highest quality level, regardless of whether they are left or right. A solution is to make sure every quality level accounts for one right gauntlet for each left gauntlet.
Dwarves who become lords automatically disable all their civilian jobs. When they come off duty and back on duty they lose experience as well.
Military dwarves in squads that are assigned to a schedule may get increasingly angry about long patrol duties, even if they were not on duty the past 12 months

That's maybe not all the bugs, but that one is so well known and it's listed
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Re: Enraged by patrol duty
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2014, 08:52:56 am »
It's this bug, and if you have a hex-editor handy you can fix it yourself by editing Dwarf Fortress.exe and applying the following binary patches (for Win32 version 0.34.11 SDL):

Code: [Select]
0067A7C9 : D9 -> 90
007E5CFC : B0 C0 42 -> 20 4F 7D
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Re: Enraged by patrol duty
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2014, 10:49:01 am »
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6741

Use this. Is a binary patch that solves this and other bugs.
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