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PatrikLundell

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d-b-m (melt items in area) seems buggy?
« on: September 09, 2018, 11:38:48 am »
I've had several cases where I've tried to melt designate piles of gobbo junk left after execution, and d-b-m fails to designate some things, while managing to get most of them. The ones it's failed on have been copper armor worn to the 'x' or 'X' level, but I've seen some that were designated correctly. The reason it's only copper is that this is the only armor grade metal the gobbos bring.
Manual melt designation of the missed items works.

Has anyone else encountered this?
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Re: d-b-m (melt items in area) seems buggy?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2018, 02:58:33 pm »
I do a lot of melting and have not seen this, but could have missed it. My method is, use d-b-m on a large binned stockpile about once per season, without looking in the bins.
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Re: d-b-m (melt items in area) seems buggy?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2018, 04:45:18 pm »
Could dwarves be claiming the items? I often have trouble fully cleaning a battlefield because Urist has decided that he can't live without a particular loincloth soaked in goblin sweat.
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Re: d-b-m (melt items in area) seems buggy?
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2018, 01:57:57 am »
Highly unlikely, since I've got a huge pile of masterworks copper equipment, so there's absolutely no reason to downgrade to lower quality worn copper equipment.

The loincloth issue is particularly annoying as kids rush out to pick them up and then start to play out in the open (while painting the area green). I'm using a kid burrow to block them from doing this, but civilian alerts override all other burrow restrictions, so the kids will then grab loincloths when I'm cleaning up in closed off entrance tunnels. What's even more annoying is that I've got a whole pile of loincloths liberated from earlier gobbo waves, so there's absolutely no need to go for the ones with fresh blood on them.

I'll repeat it after the next siege prisoner processing session and post a bug report (assuming it is repeated, of course).
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