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[Shonai_Dweller]

Did something change with layers in 50.0x?
I used to equip my dwarves with mail shirt, breastplate and cloak. Cloak no longer seems to be working.

Looking at equipment details, some dwarves are actually being assigned a cloak, but they never put it on. How will my Captain of the Guard exert his authority without his red silk cloak now?!

[martinuzz]

Dwarves do wear cloaks as civilian clothing though. But I hope they aren't removed from the uniform setting. IIRC, it's the only clothing item that can protect the throat.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Hmmmm.....

Ok. So testing on a new embark and I managed to get a dwarf to equip helmet, hood, mail, breastplate and cloak.

The equipment I embarked with was quickly claimed by other dwarves but I slaughtered all the cats and dogs and produced cloaks and helmets until he claimed one.

So, guess in my main game either the cloak is stuck for some reason, or civilian dwarves are snatching up all the cloaks and hoods before the militia get a chance to grab them.

Doesn't explain why a couple of dwarves have selected specific cloaks in the equipment screen but refuse to go put them on.

[Shonai_Dweller]

So actually the cloak that my militia captain claimed was currently being worn by some random engraver. Which explains why he couldn't go get it. It's even marked in the engravers item list as "part of assigned squad equipment" but, guess he doesn't care...

And because the militia captain can't grab his cloak, none of the the other soldier dorfs will update their cloaks, because of the hierarchy of command presumably (highest ranking Dorf gets best stuff).

So, by deleting and reassigning of his equipment I managed to get the militia captain a new cloak, which he successfully claimed and now no.2 dorf is stuck in the same way because a citizen is wearing his cloak. Guess this is the bug. I'm not sure what is happening first, a cloak is marked for military used then picked up by a citizen, or a cloak already owned by a citizen is being marked for military use. I assume the former.

[Schmaven]

I've been having the same trouble, and so I overproduced cloaks to the max while the squads are all still cloakless.  Going into their uniform details and re-designating the cloak to "any material" has been working, but only 1 dwarf at a time.

Seems like some sort of coordinated civilian tomfoolery, and would be an interesting villain mechanic to build on:  You draft a squad to deal with a large siege, but some undercover agent is just walking around with your bin full of weapons so no one can arm themselves.