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[GameHat]

I have had now a couple of dwarves now go into an infinite loop

What seems to cause it - a dwarf with a legendary weapon will repeatedly go to a stockpile, pick something up, move a few squares, go back to the stockpile, drop something, then repeat.

For instance, I currently have a dwarf with an artifact bow.  For whatever reason, he keeps going to an ammo stockpile and looping.

Changing his military status, armor, weapon - all seems to do nothing.  He loops until exhausted, sleeps, then begins looping again.

What causes this, and how can I stop it?

[The Moonlit Knight]

It's the bow. Dwarves will go to pickup ammunition for whatever missile weapon they have, but because your dwarf doesn't have a job that needs it, he just puts the ammo back, realizes his bow has no ammo, gets more, puts it back, gets more...and so on.

Only solution I could think of when this happened to me is make the guy a hunter or marksdwarf, but if anyone else knows a better solution, tell it.

[ColonelTEE3]

Same thing happened to my guy, exactly the same. Artifact bow and kept going back for ammo. But whenever he had a job to do it seemed he went and did it because i found him in more than 1 area, doing that loop.

Not much you can do, you cant use him in combat as an archer because dwarves have no trainable skills in archery, only crossbow use. Also the ammo would be a bit hard to get ahold of.

[RP]

I'm not sure if this is related... anyway, I had a couple of Legendary siege operators whom I drafted and tried to turn into wrestlers... three of them acted normally, but the fourth one simply stood where he was, refusing to spar or patrol. I tried detaching him from the squad, setting him to 'sleep in room,' drafting/undrafting... nothing seemed to please the little bugger so I made him a civilian again.

[Asehujiko]

Inser about 5 green g in a few red ^ and voilá! lots of iron arrows.

[Faces of Mu]

quote:Originally posted by GameHat:
<STRONG>I have had now a couple of dwarves now go into an infinite loop

What seems to cause it - a dwarf with a legendary weapon will repeatedly go to a stockpile, pick something up, move a few squares, go back to the stockpile, drop something, then repeat.

For instance, I currently have a dwarf with an artifact bow.  For whatever reason, he keeps going to an ammo stockpile and looping.

Changing his military status, armor, weapon - all seems to do nothing.  He loops until exhausted, sleeps, then begins looping again.

What causes this, and how can I stop it?</STRONG>

Would making some quivers help? (i.e., he'll go get the quiver, fill it up, and carry on?)

[GameHat]

Both quivers and bolts are available to the dwarf.

The dwarf continues this loop even when he's set to active military with "fight with crossbow" selected.  Flipping duty on/off  doesn't change anything.

[Narushima]

If I'm not wrong, I think that dwarves cannot use bows, but only crossbows. Or maybe the trappers are the only ones that can use bows.

[Fieari]

Bows are too big to be used by dwarves, except as a big stick to whack people upside the head with.

[Faces of Mu]

quote:Originally posted by GameHat:
<STRONG>Both quivers and bolts are available to the dwarf.

The dwarf continues this loop even when he's set to active military with "fight with crossbow" selected.  Flipping duty on/off  doesn't change anything.</STRONG>

Another idea: place an archery range right near the stack of bolts. Maybe he could just get his markmanship up for the next five years until he drops the damn thing?   :confused:

[hactar1]

Maybe chasming all your arrows would work?  Eventually some item hauler would claim the arrows somewhere in the dwarf's cycle, and chuck them.  Without ammunition to distract the dwarf with the artifact bow, he will probably go about his business.

[Mechanoid]

I think the infinite loop is caused by the dwarf having mining or wood cutting activated, and treating the artifact as a 'weapon' so the dwarf goes to put down his axe or pick, but because the job doesn't disable, the dwarf takes whatever he just put down. Over and over, into infinity.

So basically, to stop this from happening, the dwarf should:
1. Stop treating the artifact as a weapon
2. If the artifact is a weapon, the dwarf should disable his weapon-related jobs, unless the artifact is used in that weapon-related job.
3. Fail-safe and have the dwarf drop and disown the artifact.

[Bien]

I think I also have something like that, mason gets stone from stockpile and puts it into the masons shop then someone gets the stone and puts it back into the stockpile.