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[Finn]

I think I must ask that question more than any other while playing this game.  At the moment I have just finished fighting off some goblin ambushers and one of my squad is just sitting in the grass, hungry, thirsty and drowsy.  As far as I can tell he has no wounds of any kind.  I have 13 dwarves with recover wounded as their only labor.  They've pulled the other wounded off the battlefield but now they are sitting around idle, so I guess this guy isn't wounded.  Why is he just sitting out there then?  The squad has no current orders.  There's a path back to the barracks.  His current job is no-job.  I'm baffled.

[Syncing]

I'm not that experienced with military in DF, but have you canceled the squad order? Maybe you set a movement point and you forgot about it.

//Edit: OK, I misread. I though you talked about the whole squad. Maybe he is a hunter and sleeps outside (my hunters do that sometimes).

[Garath]

well, if the others of his squad were wounded and hauled off, maybe he is still there because he isnt wounded and is still obeying a move/kill order. They tend to hang around the creature they were to kill too ("have you seen the goblin spearman ufur holomaran? I can only find the corpse of ufur holomaran the goblin spearman.")

[assimilateur]

Assuming you've waited for a bit and double-checked that his squad's orders were canceled (merely completing a kill order isn't enough), this is definitely some weird shit. And I don't just mean the part about him not leaving his station, but showing up as having "no job" (you'd expect something like "soldier (can't follow orders)" instead).

What I'd do is give him another order and see if he follows it and then canceling that. But you probably already tried that.

[xordae]

Sometimes military orders will 'stick' even after they've been cancelled, though the dwarves end up dropping them eventually.

[Urist Imiknorris]

My soldiers tend to loiter around the area where they've been told to go for quite a while after cancelling the order.

[peskyninja]

Is you gate open?

[Grumbledwarfskin]

If the dwarf is a "hero" ("master" or "lord" in their military title, bright colored face), then they may continue as if on the "active/training" schedule even when you put the squad on "inactive", because "hero" dwarves were intended to never leave the military, and never perform any civilian duties ever again.

Of course, it's horribly bugged, so dwarves typically (but not always) lose hero status at the beginning of every month, but I suspect "hero"s hanging around after the orders are cancelled is mostly due to that, when I switch a squad of marksdwarves from "active/training" (with "patrol route" assigned as their schedule), the ones that are currently labeled as "hero"s tend to hang around for an extra month, while the rest go back to their civilian duties right away.

Some of it could be because switching to "hero" status wiped out all of their labors, so they don't have any job to get to, but it's at least possible that your dwarf is hanging around despite being hungry/thirsty because dwarves on "station", "patrol route", "defend burrows" (and the like) won't drink or go eat until they hit starving or dehydrated.

If you change the squad's schedule to have them training, and give them a barracks, I'll bet your dwarf will go get something to eat/drink more quickly, because military dwarves that are training don't wait until they're starving/dehydrated.

[Finn]

Thank you all for your ideas.  I will experiment with this later today or tomorrow and tell you what unsticks him.  My guess at the moment is that he's just stuck following the previous (but now cancelled) order to kill.

[peskyninja]

Last nigh one swordwarf of mine stayed stuck when he was  "picking equipment", I had to unleash a giat toad in the armory so he could  unstuck.



Off topic:
Weapon racks, armor stands and chests have any use when you create a room from them?

[Talvieno]

I've had this happen too. My soldier finally decided to leave after a while and went to go rest, as he was wounded. I never had a problem with him after that. Maybe he's just wishing he had more goblins to fight? lol

Anyway, the situation seemed to resolve itself, in my case.

[Finn]

I just wasn't patient enough I guess.  The next day someone with the recover injured came out to pick him up.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Well there's your problem!