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Jack_Bread

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How do I hunt?
« on: April 03, 2010, 03:45:13 pm »

My fortress is out of food and booze and I wanted to get one of my woodcutters hunting.
Though, he's just standing there with a dumb smile (like that-> ☺) on his face doing nothing.

How do I get him to hunt?

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Re: How do I hunt?
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2010, 03:56:58 pm »

They don't hunt with melee weapons?
Damn.

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Re: How do I hunt?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2010, 04:26:18 pm »

I actually tried to send my military out to kill an animal. They punched a raccoon against the side of a mountain for awhile. Broke a couple bones, but they mostly caused bruises that healed very quickly. Eventually, that raccoon ran over two or three stone-fall traps(having run over one before attacking with my military), and it finally died. And nobody decided to butcher it :(.
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Re: How do I hunt?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2010, 04:44:28 pm »

Depending on where it died, you might have to turn on outside refuse gathering. I think they ignore corpses on the surface if that's not on; they won't haul those ones down to be butchered. Other than that, just make sure you've got a refuse pile designated somewhere, the butcher shop's up, a butcher ready, and you haven't forbidden the shop. Should work, possibly without the refuse pile, I'unno.
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