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[martinuzz]

Has anyone else noticed that mining labour and woodcutting labour does not interfere with being assigned to a squad anymore?
Apparently a sneak fix was introduced for it, or I missed it while reading update notes.

My miners are in a squad. If I put their squad schedule to active / training, they will pick up masterpiece picks that I assigned to their uniforms, and use these for combat, and sparring when ordered to train in the barracks.

If their squad is set to inactive, they will drop their masterwork pickaxes, and pickup available spare pickaxes, and happily mine even though they are still assigned to the squad.

Only caveat would be that once they grow attached to their picks through training, it's gonna take micromanaging to make them drop it, smelt it down and give them a new one.

I didn't notice it sooner because kicking miners from a squad when mining needs to be done is so autopilot for me haha.
That's one really long standing issue out of the way. Awesome!

EDIT: it looks like it is fixed by overriding the inactive = uniformed setting in the schedule screen, so that miners are always un-uniformed when inactive. They'll not pick up shields or wear armor while not active/training

[mirrizin]

Woot!!!

[DoktaYut]

Well, that's pretty nice to know. No more screwiness when sending my miners to war is always nice.

Though I wonder if this has to do with my recent incident where assigning a hunter as a woodcutter lead to the guy beating emus up with a training ax until he passed out.

[Blue_Dwarf]

Maybe it's a bug?

[martinuzz]

Well, that's pretty nice to know. No more screwiness when sending my miners to war is always nice.

Though I wonder if this has to do with my recent incident where assigning a hunter as a woodcutter lead to the guy beating emus up with a training ax until he passed out.

Related, but not the same. A dwarf can only wear one tool. Just like you cannot assign both woodcutting and mining to a dwarf, you also cannot combine hunting properly with either (that uses crossbow as a tool).

I do suspect however that you now can also use hunters in a marksdwarf squad. Haven's tested yet, but I suspect they;ll be marksmen when active/training, and hunting while inactive. They'd probably use different quivers for the two modes, which might make picking up ammo quirky.

[Sutremaine]

...Hasn't this always been the case, since 0.31?

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

Haven't there been bugs since 31?

[martinuzz]

Small addendum: If you have a designated barracks which is set for the miners' squad for training, your miners will drop their tool picks and grab their weapon picks for individual combat training when their squad is inactive. So when you want them to mine, make sure there is no training barracks for the squad.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

Ah, that explains some odd behavior I've seen.