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Fist_Of_Armok

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Hunter won't hunt
« on: April 03, 2010, 06:55:24 pm »
He's armed with a Copper Crossbow and there are plenty of Copper bolts and fifteen Stray Horse Bone bolts, but even when there are Deer and Black Bears running about he WILL NOT DO ANYTHING. He sits around, he eats, and after I enabled fishing, when there's fish, he'll fish for 'em, but otherwise he is COMPLETELY FUCKING USELESS.

Butchery is enabled on him, but I don't really have anything that needs butchering-though my dwarves are starving.

Eh, fuck it, I'll probably just pierce the aquifer and make a farming complex, if my herbalists can feed my dwarves long enough off just that.
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Re: Hunter won't hunt
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2010, 08:08:30 pm »
You need a quiver for the hunter to hunt. They will no longer carry ammo in a free hand. Probably need to have outside refuse gather on too, to get 'im to haul the corpse to the shop.
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Fist_Of_Armok

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Re: Hunter won't hunt
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2010, 08:22:59 pm »
Well, he's got the quiver now, but we're out of surface critters.

nevertheless, maybe I'll be able to find something in the depths to eat.

I've also started a small farming complex, and I pray to the Emperor this one actually works.
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Re: Hunter won't hunt
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2010, 09:09:58 pm »
I'm finding breeding pits with airlocks (2+ pet forbidden doors) actually work if you want to try ranching.

There should be some pre-muddied locations not too far underground.

I embarked on a location with no surface water features so had a tough time getting any irrigation going. What I finally did was channel out a pit from the surface and did surface crop farms in there.

edit: Meant to post, hunting seems to have a lower priority than 40d, I eventually got mine to hunt full time by disabling all his other labors.
« Last Edit: April 04, 2010, 09:11:30 pm by freeze »
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Re: Hunter won't hunt
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2010, 11:02:34 pm »
I had the same problem with my hunter not hunting.  Then I saw in another thread that the new version requires you to allocate ammunition to your hunters from the (m)ilitary screen.  Once I allocated some ammo my hunter went to work (I may have had to toggle the hunting labor after allocating the ammo, can't remember).
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Re: Hunter won't hunt
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2010, 01:31:51 pm »
I wish there was a toggle that kept all incoming hunters from hunting.  I had one show up, that tried to kill a band of horses, but succeeded only in making them all bleed.  There were zig zagging blood trails eveywhere, right up till he ran out of bolts.  Then they tried to break into my base...

Oh stonefall traps don't work very well any more.
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Re: Hunter won't hunt
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2010, 01:25:42 am »
I'm still having trouble getting my hunter to hunt.  Unfortunately, I've now tried so many things that I can't remember in what order I did everything, but hunters definitely have bolts assigned to them in the military screen, he has a quiver and crossbow (but for some reason has thrown off all his clothes and is now obsessed with storing them one by one in his room - completely naked except for a crossbow and quiver).  There is plenty of wildlife present.  I've tried removing and readding the hunting labor, but I have a funny feeling that when I accidentally put him into the military and took him back out it broke him somehow :( Pity, as he's a pretty good hunter.
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