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[crossmr]

So I've decided to check out this whole wool/shearing thing
I've got an alpaca and a llama on the same pasture. I checked both and both were described as currently have long wool. So I set the guy to shear and left him to it. I came back to only find 1 pile of alpaca fur. I checked, and the alpaca's description about the wool is gone, but the llama's is still there.

There is nothing blocking the guy. There are no obstacles. No burrow issues, etc.
I've tried to add it again but it's immediately cancelled because there is no available creature...

[Lytha]

You can shear an animal one time every 6 months (or is it once every year?)

Quite obviously, the llama and the alpaca were already shorn once in this time interval.

[crossmr]

You can shear an animal one time every 6 months (or is it once every year?)

Quite obviously, the llama and the alpaca were already shorn once in this time interval.

They've never been shorn before. This is my first time trying it. I acquired the llama as a baby, and it grew to an adult in the pasture, I just finally got around to attempting to shear him now.

[Lytha]

Right. Are we talking about a baby llama here?

[cerapa]

Right. Are we talking about a baby llama here?

and it grew to an adult

Reading fail?

Sadly I cant contribute anything, as I have not tried shearing.

[crossmr]

Right. Are we talking about a baby llama here?

No, he was a baby when I got him. He's an adult now. The only difference between the alpaca and the llama is that I acquired the alpaca as an adult, the llama as a baby, but he's now just a stray llama.
according to his description his "cream wool is extremely long"

[Lytha]

When did he grow into an adult? Very recently? How long did you have him roam around as a baby?

The "very long wool" description appears faster than the shearability is achieved, due to the limit of "only 1 shearing per (half a?) year is allowed" mechanism, normally. But I could imagine that if you only had him in his childhood stage for a very short time, and he arrived with very short hair, that he may just not be ready to be sheared.

Animals born in your fortress are usually ready to be sheared as soon as they're out of the childhood stage. This may become wonky if you buy them as babies from the caravans. (Or get them as babies with migrant waves.)

I would give him another couple of months and then do it again.



I have never had llamas in my fortresses, so I don't know anything about their specific issues. My dwarves only shear alpacas, cats and grizzly bears.

[FrankMcFuzz]

Check your refuse stockpile. Wool goes there for me. Maybe it's like the "cancels butcher animal" job when they stop cutting up animal bits when it's on repeat because it goes rotten or something.

[Psieye]

Shearing Llamas has been a staple at two of my forts and I'm fairly sure you don't have to wait a whole 2 seasons to re-shear them. But that may just have been some of my Llamas being available at any one time.

[Lytha]

Yes, you have to wait quite a while. The alpaca and the cat were my only source for anything to make bags from for a while, and I was quite desperate to shear them again. It must have been two seasons at the least until they had regrown their wool.

[Yoink]

Is it a pet of someone's? I doubt it, but just checking. I have problems getting pets sheared. :/