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[eddyg86]

AH! Thank you for anyone who can give me any advice here.

My problem: 2 of my legendary craftsmen, One Madmud Owlwires or something, and another (presumably puncie) architect with a fancy room, have disappeared from my Military menu, and are unassignable to any squads, either for deactivation or anything, and henceforth, can't do any of their assigned labour.

This all started when there was an unexpected siege & I assigned all the craftdwarves to the military (with unarmed & no armor or shield set) to get them to all station and stay put in safer territory.
(this is sometimes a good strategy, although i discovered they sometimes leap into the fray due to being fearless warriors momentarily through being military assigned.)

When the siege was dealt with & there was no threat, I deactivated the military service and everyone went back to making expensive crap and not cleaning up after themselves.

I had 37 Dwarves counting several seasons now, including the 18 (Thanks Dtil) i had included in the initial setup. When i checked the screen after this brief emergency drill, i only counted 35.
Weird.
I was scared someone had died, so i freaked out and went through the (U)nit list to look for dwarven deaths, etc, etc. Noone dead. But i did notice that i was missing two of my original 18, and was annoyed, etc.

I was still assigning everyone beds at the time, and i noticed the 2 missing dwarves were still green (as in had no bedroom assigned) and could be assigned rooms. Weird. So they were still alive... just not on the military screen.

I forgot about it, reassigned a few jobs, and got on with cleaning up millions of marques monkey bits and goblin corpses and one day, sleeping in the military barracks near the depot, was The 2 missing dwarves, And when i (V)iewed them, they said "Soldier" and when i tried to go to (P)references and deactivate the squad or assign anything.... there was simply a black screen.

According to their thoughts they're as happy as larry, with not even patrol duty or any excitement mentioned. They just simply are no longer on the pay roll, and are content to walk around with picks and not use them, and eat and sleep like a regular layabout recruit.

It's really strange, and it'd be nice to get them working again.

So the problem is:

1) Recruited all my labourers of my 37 dwarves (only 14 are military i think)
2) Dealt with trouble
3) Deactivated military & got on with work - only had 35 dwarves according to ze status
4) two missing dwarven labourers are still recruited (but not on military form OR (u)nit list buut can still be assigned to rooms or whatever - just - don't exist - in any menu or anything.
5) when found on the map, the 2 dwarves have nothing in their preference menu besides the button that switches to thoughts/ownership/nicknames etc - and it says 'soldier' in their (G)eneral menu - and seem to do nothing but eat and sleep and walk around carrying a pick. And they have great moods and thoughts, due to them even having fancy rooms assigned under their names still (although they seem to sleep in the barracks a bit, maybe it's because they're squad assigned.)

It sucks. When i see the buggers hanging about drinking up all the booze and eating turtle cakes then passing out on the draft beds, all i can do is (v)iew it impotently...

Any ideas? Anyone heard of this before?

[Sowelu]

I've never heard of anything like that before!  Very strange..

[eddyg86]

it's bloody annoying. they were happy as larry when they were just getting about drinking my booze, but since then they both have the thought "bla bla dic ead dorf has been terribly depressed by long petrol duty lately" which is making me worry that they'll go bonkers eventually as there is no way to command them or access them and according to my military and status zone they aren't even apart of the fort - soo

is there anything else i can do? any good way to get single dwarfs in cages or on restraints or anything before they go crazy, when you can't command them? (on a note - these two don't show up in the +/- command select screen when you station troops.
 i luckily assigned dogs to them so i hope they'll jump the unarmored legendary buggers with steel picks before they gorge our fair lady administrator or some plump seed potash maker walking by - ehh.

[eddyg86]

edit: They DO show up in the squad member selection (X) menu - but only when far away from any of the active squads - as a group of 2. but from there i can't do anything but zoom to the commander, and from (V)iewing his pref menu i could still do nothing.

This is a pretty lame bug. I suppose it should be noted for addressing. but there was no real cause i can think of - it just happened when i split my laborers until 3 squads and told them to station in a safe area... and upon deactivating everyones squads - those 2 were no longer on the payroll or military menu - although they are on the unit list and squad station menus... hmm.

strangebug.