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[Tanelorn]

Hello,

The title pretty much explains the situation I came across: my trader was building a wall (he had masonry enabled), and the caravan arrived. The outpost liaison headed straight for the trader for a meeting, and stood on the tile where the trader was building the wall.
This resulted in a stand off between the trader (waiting for the liaision to move to finish the wall), and the liaison, not moving because he wanted a meeting.

Worse still, the trader did not show as idle, since he was building the wall. I only noticed the situation by accident. I don't know for how long it had been going on. The task did not get suspended because the tile was blocked.

I assume that eventually, the trader would have got hungry or thirsty, and the deadlock would have ended, but I wanted to report it anyway. It didn't come to that because I suspended the task manually.

If thirst/hunger doesn't do it, I suppose the trader will starve to death.

It might be a good idea to have the game cancel/suspend a building task if the liaison is preventing it. Or have the liaison move if it is standing in the wrong place.

[Derakon]

This also happens to a more limited extent with pets, which will follow their masters around. It's more limited because pets also wander a bit and are willing to stand on the same square as their masters; however, deadlocks of several turns are not uncommon.

[Toady One]

There's a counter in place for this, but I think one of the job changes might have thrown it off by a factor of ten.  I've changed that, and we can keep an eye on it after the next release.