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[martinuzz]

I noticed that polytheist creatures sometimes can still get stuck praying / meditating to only one of their deities (even though their praying need to that deity is completely fullfilled and their other deities really need praying to they will still have the pink/purple worship or meditate job for their alraedy appeased deity).
This has been a thing for years, and back in the days I posted a workaround to fix the behaviour (sorry too lazy to battle the Lovecraftian horror that is this forum's search engine to find that post), but that workaround involves so much micro and hassle that it is too tedious (in short, you need dedicated temples to all involved deities, and you need to micro stuck dwarves with squad assignment, stationing /cancelling orders, and locking doors at the right moment so they bump into a locked door after pathing is set).

Suggested easy temporary fix for Toady and Putnam: until the root cause is fixed, disallow creatures from worshipping more than one deity. This will 100% resolve the issue gameplay-wise for now.

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As for the root cause: Hey, I am no coder, I am at best a novice Logician, but what I suspect is what happens, is that a polytheist dwarf with praying needs for multiple dieties will make a check after the praying need for one deity is fullfilled.
This check will tell the dwarf that more praying needs to be done (to another deity), but the flag / cache that dictates to which deity the dwarf will pray is not reset/updated, so the dwarf will keep praying to the already satisfied deity.
The type of temple (all deities / single deity) does not matter for this behaviour if the check to see if the dwarf is in an appropriate temple for his current pray/meditate job is made after the job assignment (dwarves will get stuck in all deity temples as well as in dedicated temples).

[delphonso]

I'll note that this makes worlds where you've played for decades frustrating. Children of dwarves (especially kids from your forts) adopt deities from both parents. After a few generations, it seems dwarves have a minimum of 4 gods they want to worship.

[PetMudstone]

Yeah, devout polytheism is pretty annoying and I'd really like to not have to micro my dwarves in order to deal with their intense beliefs. Personally I feel like it would also work if dwarves couldn't be especially devoted to multiple gods and could only be super into one. They could still worship other gods but they wouldn't care as much about them as they do a particular god.

I also feel like the act of worshipping itself might take a bit too long, or that at the very least dwarves in a worship session should tour multiple temples/pray to multiple dieties instead of spending all their session time in a single one.

Also, link to the aforementioned post here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=154760.0

[martinuzz]

Yeah, devout polytheism is pretty annoying and I'd really like to not have to micro my dwarves in order to deal with their intense beliefs. Personally I feel like it would also work if dwarves couldn't be especially devoted to multiple gods and could only be super into one. They could still worship other gods but they wouldn't care as much about them as they do a particular god.

I also feel like the act of worshipping itself might take a bit too long, or that at the very least dwarves in a worship session should tour multiple temples/pray to multiple dieties instead of spending all their session time in a single one.

Also, link to the aforementioned post here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=154760.0

Yep that's the post, thanks for digging it up!

[martinuzz]

I do have to note that this behaviour is much more rare than when I posted that guide 7 years ago.

So far, I have had only one dwarf act like this, while I do have more polytheists running around.
Said dwarf was a resident performer, not a full citizen, and I expelled him because I didn't want to bother with the micro hassle.

Haven't seen any more dwarves get stuck.

[ArmokGoB]

In 50.01, my horses abandoned their pasture so that they could starve to death in the temple. I haven't had it happen since, but it was pretty funny watching my livestock pray themselves to death.

[martinuzz]

I haven't seen any more occurences of it anymore.
It was just this one resident.

The other polytheists in my fort, both resident and citizen are fine. They pray to all their different deities in my single temple.

[YashaAstora]

Experiencing this. My manager is nigh-endlessly praying and somehow is distracted because she doesn't get to pray enough. It's enough to make me wish I could assign more than one manager because not being able to make work orders for real-life minutes is incredibly annoying.

Granted, maybe it's less bad in 0.50.