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[Moron]

I have a dwarf set to hunting, and noticed that his job seems to be stuck on 'pick up equipment'. He isn't moving, just standing around outside.

I had a look at him and noticed that he has no ammuntion. However, there are plenty of wooden and bone bolts in my stockpiles, I'm assuming he only wants to pick up metal bolts and this is why he's doing nothing.

[Moogie]

I had no less than three military dwarves freeze in place trying to "Pick Up Equipment" the other day. Nothing I did would snap them out of it. I went through the ENTIRE stocks screen trying to find the items they were looking for, and designated them for dumping, but they still just sat there. I undrafted them and re-drafted them. I tried stationing them elsewhere. Nothing. They simply would. Not. Move.

Two of them were Legendary Champion Hammerlords. One was trying to pick up a Steel Shield - though I didn't think to look if he already had one equipped. I eventually managed to un-freeze him by unleashing a monster nearby (in a strictly controlled environment, of course) and let it beat the guy up. He cancelled his "Pick Up Equipment" job as soon as he was "too injured". But he died anyway, so that idea was kind of useless.

[ June 14, 2008: Message edited by: Moogie ]

[Moron]

How do you tell which equipment they are trying to pick up? I just assumed it was bolts as he is wandering around with a crossbow with no ammunition.

[Moogie]

I checked the 'j'obs list and the details for his Pickup job was "Steel Shield". Annoyingly, you can't then zoom to the indicated item from the job screen. There is, basically, no way at all to zoom to the location of an item targetted for a task. Only buildings.

[Tamren]

You can go into the stocks menu and zoom in on every steel shield in the fortress to make sure none of them are stuck somehow. This is however a far from ideal solution.

[Lord Dullard]

I'd just momentarily forbid my entire armor stockpile through a designation.

[Deon]

How is it possible? I had this with ammunition once and I think it's a bug.