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[Deathworks]

Hi!

I just had a planter give birth to a child. The birth message was followed by a "cancelled constructing wall: Seeking infant" - and then "The dwarves suspended the construction of a wall".

It does not seem right that a wall constructions should get suspended because the new mother has suddenly become busy (eating and drinking don't result in suspension either).

Deathworks

[Nesoo]

Is it possible that someone tried to build the wall, but it was blocked by the baby? I recall reading that pets that follow masons around like to get in the way and cause buildings to suspend. Maybe the mother suspended it because the baby was in the way and canceled the job simultaneously?

[Neoskel]

Is it possible that someone tried to build the wall, but it was blocked by the baby? I recall reading that pets that follow masons around like to get in the way and cause buildings to suspend. Maybe the mother suspended it because the baby was in the way and canceled the job simultaneously?

Nope. I've had this happen multiple times (when i build things the entire fortress is building it). Mothers suspend wall construction when 'seeking infant'. It's exactly that.

It's also never when the mother is already next to the wall, it's when shes en route with the materials.

I've also had a similar problem where engravers randomly undesignate some spaces of engraving and i have to re-designate it. I think it's when the job is canceled for some reason or other.

[Calvin]

Actually, all mothers when they "birth" a baby, they always cancel what ever they do to pick up the baby. Then they'll resume doing whatever she was doing.

It's not a bug. Its one of those annoying things Toady programmed in.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Neoskel described things absolutely correctly. The mother was on her way to do the construction of the wall when the baby was born.

Calvin: The problem is not the cancellation of the job. The problem is that the job also gets suspended, meaning that no dwarf will touch this wall until I tell them it is okay to build it. Why should a wall construction become kind of forbidden because a baby was born? It is not that the site has become inaccessible for other dwarves, that an object is blocking the site or that a dangerous creature has been spotted near the site. So, why does the game not allow anyone to finish that wall?

Deathworks

[Draco18s]

I've also had a similar problem where engravers randomly undesignate some spaces of engraving and i have to re-designate it. I think it's when the job is canceled for some reason or other.

Different problem entirely.  I'll bet that if you have two dwarves doing engraving they'll skip every other tile and that if you have 1 they'll skip only rarely and probably lines up with when they go for food and drink.

[numerobis]

I almost made this same bug report yesterday: my dwarves are breeding like rabbits up there on the roof they're building, which leaves it pockmarked with construction-suspended floors.  It's a relatively minor issue, but eliminating this micromanagement would be nice.

On the topic of fixing the logic for suspending work on constructions, it'd also be nice if "dangerous terrain" or "submerged" didn't suspend the work.  When trying to wall off an aquifer, I find myself maneuvering to exactly the right spot so I can just incessantly hit 'q' 's' to get the dwarves to try again.

[Nesoo]

Well, darn, so much for my idle speculation

[Toady One]

Okay, I'll note it down.