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Niels Kristoffersen

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Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« on: September 07, 2006, 11:40:00 am »

One of my dwarfs and a child (which appears 5 times) are stuck in a seed bag which is in a seed barrel. I have no idea how they got in there, but they can't get out.
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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2006, 11:44:00 am »

They were kidnapped by a goblin or kobold (can't remember which). When this happens, they are put into the bag carried by the kidnapper. Of course, if the kidnapper gets butchered, his bag will end up on your furniture stockpile, and it's possible that later the bag is used to store seeds.

Of course, peasants can't be kidnapped, only children. Yes, that means that your peasant has been in the bag long enough to grow up!

Currently, there's no way to get them out of the bag. If you want to be rid of them for good, one method I've used is to trade them to visiting caravans...

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Niels Kristoffersen

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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2006, 11:52:00 am »

So whenever one of your children are kidnapped he or she is lost, even if you manage to kill the kidnapper?

[EDIT]Also, why is the child mentioned 5 times? I noticed this also happens inside the bag of the kidnapper.

[ September 07, 2006: Message edited by: Niels Kristoffersen ]

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« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2006, 06:54:00 pm »

Perhaps the goblin civilizations have banned using goblins as test subjects for cloning!
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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2006, 04:11:00 pm »

I'm not sure why they clone yet, but...  they do.
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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2006, 08:29:00 pm »

This happened to me as well.  I went looking for the dwarf when I got the notification that they'd grown up, and kept getting sent to the barrel.... finally I looked in the barrel  :)

I was, of course, immediately reminded of a method of child-rearing I'd heard of:  

Put the child in a barrel, and feed them through the bunghole.  When they turn 16, you have a decision to make:  Let them out, or just plug the bung hole.  Clearly my metalsmith adheres to this philosophy.

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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2006, 11:18:00 am »

You can get the kids/peasants out by sending the container to the trade depot.
I have done this several times.
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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2006, 11:21:00 pm »

Yeah, too bad you can only do that with traders present.
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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2006, 02:31:00 am »

So... when you release them at the depot, do all 5 come out?
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« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2006, 07:43:00 am »

then I hope they live live long enough because 1 already died of thirst and 2 others are tantrumming away. (They came in across the point I was building my lava channel  :()
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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2006, 12:02:00 pm »

The current version that's out fixes this - are you fully updated?

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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2006, 06:43:00 pm »

Odd.  When my children got trapped in bags like that, they never got thirsty.  One was stricken with melancholy though before I found out they were stuck.
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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2006, 04:50:00 am »

it was fixed a few versions ago - now they pop out of the bag when you kill the unit carrying it.

when I had the old version with a child in a bag, the others would bring him food and water like they do with injured dwarves and prisoners. one of them lived long enough to grow up, then went berserk from the constant "unhappy about being confined" thoughts. even that didn't get him out of the bag.

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Re: Dwarfs stuck in seed bag/barrel
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2006, 08:42:00 am »

I'll update the version I have at home (Fully updated at work, but I might have(read have)forgotten to update my home version)
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