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[valcon]

goblins are sitting on a cliff 2 screens away from my miners

they wont walk to the fort because the path comes within about 50 tiles of the goblins

they wont even dig a tunnel (VERY far away from the goblins) to tunnel to the fort because ... well i have no idea why they wont do it.  they just walk back and forth, back and forth, back and forth

it's really quite frustrating.  there is absolutely no good reason why they would refuse to do a job they normally would because goblins are up on a cliff, unable to get to them, 2 entire screen lengths away.  

All they have to do is dig a downward staircase and tunnel about 5 tiles away and they are free.  Will they?  Nope.  

SIMPLE FIX:  Allow an (o)  DWARVES IGNORE ENEMIES.  Thank you.

[GRead]

do you have any other dig jobs designated? As far as I can tell the pathing selects dig jobs based on their XY coordinates, not their proximity to the miners; your miners may be ignoring the available digs because they keep trying to go for ones they can't get to.
Alternatively, they may be trying to get drinks etc. and backing off from the goblins.

Or they could also be bugged.

[valcon]

nope, i made sure every other dig job ( on every z level ) was canceled (d, x) and i even had every possible path but the one to the stairway i wanted them to carve marked as restricted traffic area, they just didn't care, they freely walked on restricted squares and never once went into the high traffic square next to and on top of the dig downward staircase designation =/

all 3 of them died of dehydration, walking back and forth =/

[FunnyMan]

Dwarves prefer to dig walls from certain directions.  If a "better" side of the wall is accessible, the dwarves will try to reach it, no matter how stupid the path.

[numerobis]

quote:Originally posted by FunnyMan:
<STRONG>Dwarves prefer to dig walls from certain directions.  If a "better" side of the wall is accessible, the dwarves will try to reach it, no matter how stupid the path.</STRONG>

And even if there's no path, but in some path component, there's a path.

[numerobis]

quote:Originally posted by benoit.hudson:
<STRONG>

And even if there's no path, but in some path component, there's a path.</STRONG>

Funny; I see it marked as can't repro on the bugs page, and I can't reproduce it.  But I've seen it so many times...