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[Lozzymandias]

Wooden/bone bolts make perfect practise ammo and metal ones fine murder ammo. When the alarm goes up and you need marksdwarves up and on the walls right away, what's your favourite technique for ensuring they drop their training bolts and arrive full of ammo, right away? My preferred method is to forbid all wooden bolts, keep a few hundred unforbidden metal bolts in the four corner-towers of my fort, station them inside, unlock the doors and unstation, wait till they fill up and send them up. Its a bit slow but i haven't found a quicker way. How do you solve this problem?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Since training bolts were fixed, I noticed marksdwarves were carrying around two sets of bolts.  One of which (wooden ones) they used for training while hanging on to the metal ones. I haven't played fortress mode enough since then to keep track of if they keep this up permanently, but basically I don't worry about it any more.

[Skullsploder]

Since training bolts were fixed, I noticed marksdwarves were carrying around two sets of bolts.  One of which (wooden ones) they used for training while hanging on to the metal ones. I haven't played fortress mode enough since then to keep track of if they keep this up permanently, but basically I don't worry about it any more.

This, but what I used to do was use a live fire training scheme that exploited a kink in a vertical shaft to make them miss consistently and conserve bolts for recollection, so I could use metal bolts for training without worries.