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[BoogieMan]

I'm at a loss as to what I am doing wrong.

My Markdwarves squads have their uniform assigned to each slot in the squad. It has armor, shield, and crossbow selected. I have plenty of bolts of various materials, the squads have bolts allotted to them, I even simplified it further and just have it as "bolts" CT.

They will pick up a crossbow reliably, but half of them won't even equip themselves otherwise. There is available armor laying around that half of them won't pick up.

So to summarize:

Any Bolts can be used for Combat or Training, default of 250 bolts.
Large number of bolts made. Some binned, some not. Most not.
Crossbows and quivers available
Armor and weapons available and set to replace clothing, exact matches, partial matches doesn't seem to make any difference.


 So now I have a huge siege outside milling about, but my Marksdwarves are useless. Help!

[PatrikLundell]

- Have you set the squads to Active on the 'm'ilitia-'a'lert screen?
- Do you have targets built for them to train at, or a room set for their training? I think at least one of these is needed for them to function fully.
- What are the x-bow dorfs doing? If they're hauling stone by hand from the bottom of the map to the top it'll take quite some time before they finish their tasks and look for armor to equip.

[Robsoie]

Disallow completely bins from your ammo stockpiles so the dwarves put the bolts back into the stockpile ground , bins are bugged since nearly forever and marksdwarves will never pickup their ammo from a bin.

[Orkel]

There's also a bug where goblet-holding marksdwarves won't pick up ammo. If you see a marksdwarf standing on top of bolts, not moving at all with the "pickup order" job, go to his inventory and dump his goblets/cups. He'll get a free hand from it, and he'll pick up the bolts.

[Dr. Melon]

Make sure they have quivers too, that helped mine get going.

[greycat]

I also like to remove the bolts from the "Hunters" pseudo-squad.  They seem to get priority over the military, and grab up all the bolts.  I don't use hunters (I disable the labor on all immigrants), so why let them take my bolts?

Check on the military ammo screen (m f) and make sure you've got the green checkmarks by a bunch of bolts, indicating that they've been assigned to someone.  Getting that someone to pick up the bolts is just the final step.

[JarinArenos]

Disallow completely bins from your ammo stockpiles so the dwarves put the bolts back into the stockpile ground , bins are bugged since nearly forever and marksdwarves will never pickup their ammo from a bin.

This is still a thing? It's been like... half a decade now, how is it so unfixable?

[greycat]

This is still a thing? It's been like... half a decade now, how is it so unfixable?

Bug 3106: Marksdwarves cannot equip ammunition stored in bins is marked fixed since 0.31.25.

Bug 8755: Items in bins (coins, thread, mechanisms, ammo) are sometimes not found for tasks is marked "acknowledged", but there's only one save, it's not from 0.42, not a lot of comments....  I'm skeptical.  I don't see this bug in my forts.  Other people claim that it's so bad, so noticeable, so deeply affects them, that they completely skip all bins.  I think the people who are seeing it need to upload some bugged saves, or give detailed descriptions of how to trigger the bug.

[Robsoie]

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[VerdantSF]

Disallow completely bins from your ammo stockpiles so the dwarves put the bolts back into the stockpile ground , bins are bugged since nearly forever and marksdwarves will never pickup their ammo from a bin.

My marksdwarves reload from bins without any issues.