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[Rafal99]

This is about the crash that happens when you try to select a specific squad in the "Positions" section of the Military Screen. If you are unlucky enough that the first squad on the list is the one causing the crash, you probably get a crash every time when entering Military Screen.

It seems that the crash happens when one or more of the members of the crashing squad is assigned with large dagger as a weapon.
The exact cause seems to be DAGGER skill used by large dagger.

The workaround I found is changing this skill, my military screen no longer crashes after this change.
To fix it go to raws folder of your save, the path is something like
"<DFfolder>\data\save\region<whatever>\raw\objects",
find "item_weapon.txt" file,
find [ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_DAGGER_LARGE] entry,
then change [SKILL:DAGGER] to some other skill, [SKILL:SWORD] seems the most appropriate.

Post in this thread if it fixed the crash for you.

Here is Bug Tracker report about this crash:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=378

If you discover any new causes or workarounds to this crash, post in the bug tracker.


_{--I am posting this here because you can't make new threads in DF Bug Reports section of the forum.}

[freeze]

Nice find Rafal99, fixed my "press m and crash" savegame.

One quick comment: While there are daggers in the map none of the dwarfs in the crashing squad were assigned daggers. Two have "invdividual choice melee" one is "individual choice ranged"

[Rafal99]

Yeah I had them with "Individual choice: melee" too, but one of them was immigrant with Novice Knife User skill so he decided the best weapon for him would be a dagger, and equipped it.

[freeze]

Bingo. My Skilled Lasher doesn't have any whip class available so I think he scans everything else and does a quality evaluation before selecting.

[DarkDragon]

This should be stickied. It could have saved me a ton of frustration.

[Malkyne]

Bravo, Rafal99!  That fixed my crash.

Holy cow, I tried all kinds of things to fix that.  You saved my poor dwarves.

[Feral23]

I too have had a similar crash issue, as I like to embark on goblin towers - told my first military dwarf to equip a high - quality copper dagger left by a dead friendly... never would use it, though he skilled up in the weapon skill from training solo... and suddenly I cannot access the "m" screen - crash every single time. *avoid daggers*
deleted the save, so I cant upload... derp

[s20dan]

I have registered just so I could say Thanks! You have saved me from starting yet another fortress again, and this is my best fortress so far.
 So Kudos to Rafal99 for the workaround.