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waldo

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dwarves ignore workshops
« on: January 31, 2009, 12:10:15 pm »
hello, i'm having trouble in one of my fortresses, it all started when i really wanted to make some bone bolts, mostly because i had a ton of them stinking up my entrance and butcher shop. I had about 5 different dwarves with the job designation to be able to make bone bolts they did nothing for about a half hour, i then ran the gauntlet of recruiting and dismissing the bone carvers, nothing, then i tried getting new bone carvers, nothing, then i tried re-designating the order, still nothing, finally i even tried saving and restarting the program, still nothing.

at this point i'm on the verge of self inflicted tourrets as i enter the second hour since i noticed this bug, i then try to destroy the surrounding workshops, the dwarves get rid of them but they don't hand out the job to destroy the building, and since i noticed this happening my trade depot has also been inflicted with this annoying bug, and i suspect that at least one or two of my magma glass furnaces have also been inflicted.

if you need a save file i'll find a way to get it on this thread.
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Draco18s

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Re: dwarves ignore workshops
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2009, 01:53:44 pm »
Check to make sure you didn't accidentally forbid the workshop's building material.
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waldo

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Re: dwarves ignore workshops
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2009, 04:14:46 pm »
that worked! i had forbade the use of phylite using the manager, i never knew that forbidding the item the workshop is made out of would cause it to go kaput, thankyou for the solution!
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