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kingubu

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Weird ammo picking up behavior
« on: July 15, 2013, 04:41:35 am »
Early fort, quivers, shields, crossbows, and bolts are built.  My leader goes to pick up a stack of bolts on the ground, and stands on them, then walks one sqaure away, then stands on them, the walks one square away.  It's like he keeps dropping them over and over.

Bolts aren't forbidden or anything.  Tried disbanding the squad and reforming it.   He dropped everything.  The starting trying to pick up those bolts again.  It's weird.  Never seen this before.  I'm just going to remove him from the squad for now.  Wondering if anyone had seen this before.

Edit: Ugh, it's not just picking up equipment.  I'm getting this weird looping behavior on other tasks too.  Going to try saving and reloading.

Edit2:  Nope he's in the militia too.  Something to do with equipment.  Going to disband them for now.
« Last Edit: July 15, 2013, 04:52:58 am by kingubu »
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Re: Weird ammo picking up behavior
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2013, 08:22:37 am »
Sounds to me like a case of "Someone ripped both of my arms!  I feel better now though."
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Re: Weird ammo picking up behavior
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2013, 08:37:07 am »
I wonder if he selected the bolts to pick up, but someone else has selected them to put them in the ammo stockpile?

Have you tried forbidding those specific bolts so he goes somewhere else to arm up?
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Re: Weird ammo picking up behavior
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2013, 11:07:41 am »
Had you been messing with equipment before the problem started?  I had a similar experience when I tried forcing a marksdwarf to use my nice masterwork crossbow instead of some low quality import.  Forbidding that pile of bolts seemed to help, as did letting him go into combat and firing a few stacks of bolts at some undead/goblins/undead goblins.
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Re: Weird ammo picking up behavior
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2013, 03:23:10 pm »
Is it just one guy that's the problem?  Is he missing arms/hands?
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kingubu

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Re: Weird ammo picking up behavior
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2013, 05:54:30 pm »
Brand new fort with no combat yet, so I doubt he was missing arms.  Although I had the same thought.

No ammo stockpiles at all.

I did change his uniform a couple times.  I'm guessing it had something to do with that.

Ending up abandoning for different reasons.  Thanks for the replies!
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