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[Illanair]

So - Exams are finally over so I thought I'd make a holiday themed fort in the taiga/tundra areas. Everything was going well until I noticed that several of my dwarves would get "stuck" in idle or a task.

I have 3? masons who refuse to do anything - they have plenty of jobs to do in accessible areas, yet they just sit "idle" in the meeting hall. I also experienced a group of dwarves carrying stone "stuck/idle" somewhere in a hallway. They refused to go to the destination with the stone, or drop them. They just stood there and got thirsty.

Is this normal? How do I get around this?

[ayoriceball]

They just stood there and got thirsty? See if you can draw a line between them and their destination, or alcohol or water.

[Illanair]

No clear reasons - They were very close to a central staircase going all the way up/down through the fortress. We are talking some 20-30 tiles at most from the central staircase to them/destination (in both scenarios)

[ayoriceball]

No clear reasons - They were very close to a central staircase going all the way up/down through the fortress. We are talking some 20-30 tiles at most from the central staircase to them/destination (in both scenarios)

Try to move a military squad to their location.

[FuzzyZergling]

Do you have any burrows?

[Illanair]

No burrows - I basically do not have anything that (to the best of my memory) should in any way screw up pathfinding - I use Therapist but that's about it (in terms of screwing with anything).

I'll try the military trick - maybe they'll reset their bevaiour if I give them a few weeks in the room o' spikes.