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[badwin]

How would you go and create a custom key binding for items which don't have a hotkey? For example, crossbows at a bowyer, all three qualities of meals at the kitchen, or rock pots at a craftsdwarf workshop. In the escape menu, there's an ability to do key bindings there, but I don't think you can select items which don't already exist there. I'd assume you could manually insert it into interface.txt, but I don't know where I'd look for the tasks I want to hotkey.

Edit: I'm also having some trouble with someone who doesn't want to mine for some reason. I've enabled mining on this new migrant, there's a spare pick available in a weapon bin now, any dwarf will dump/claim it, and it's not forbidden. I don't know why he won't pick it up and start mining. He's doing nothing else (my only idler right now...), and he happily will haul items if I enable the labors. I've toggled his mining job on and off multiple times. A quick test shows no one will carry the pick and go mining if I enable the labor. What gives?

[Garath]

do you use therapist to set the labors? it almost sounds like a child or a weapon master.

[badwin]

Using both the default labor assignment and Therapist, I can't get any dwarf period to pick up the new pick and use it. I've gotten other various labors enabled using both, so I can't blame either for the problem. I can't even get the original pick wielder to get to mining!

[Garath]

No clue, over to Urist.

[omg_scout]

I have wild boars trained, can I train them to be war animals now? Or only dogs can be trained that way?

[Garath]

only animals with [TRAINABLE] in their raw tags can be trained for war. That is the extent I know

I do know that there are very few trainable animals. bears, large cats, dogs, surprisingly not the giant or other varieties of dog like creatures.

[knutor]

OMG_Scout,
New version out.  I dunno.

[brucemo]

So how do you train a war dog now.

I have a dog.

It's not a puppy.

It's nobody's pet.

I have a trainer.

The trainer has the training labor assigned.

I have a kennel.

There is no appropriate task in the kennel, so it is not set to do anything.

I have gone to the animal screen, pressed "w" for that animal, and assigned the animal trainer to train it.

The animal trainer sits there with "no job" forever.

[badwin]

Sorry if this isn't the solution, but I've heard you can create a new animal training zone. Perhaps you need it for training war dogs?

[brucemo]

Sorry if this isn't the solution, but I've heard you can create a new animal training zone. Perhaps you need it for training war dogs?

That has to be it; thank you very much.

[jaxy15]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how good are bobcats for trainable pets?

[Garath]

I have a farmers workshop, I have quarry bushes and I have empty bags. What am I doing wrong? Nothing is being processed and I just end up with a load of useless quarry bushes.

do they have to be milled? doesn't seem to work either.

[GoldenShadow]

Did you use the "process to bag" job, and not just "process plants"?
Do you have a dwarf with "process plants" labor enabled?

[Garath]

<facepalm>

[nickbii]

It's probably (well, almost definitely) better to just use wood to make charcoal, since I've very rarely ever even *seen* coal itself as a dug mineral in my maps.

Oh wow, I wasn't aware that it was so rare.  According to that quickstart guide on the wiki, it says to just keep digging exploratory tunnels until you find coal or lignite.  I've got plenty of wood, so I'll just burn it down to charcoal.

Which version's quickstart guide are you using?

With one of the more recent versions  (0.31 IIRC) minerals have changed. Prior to that version each map would have a little of almost everything. Afterwards if you had any lignite you'd have more lignite then you could reasonably use. I got lucky and my current map has bituminous coal, and hematite; but I haven't found flux. Which severely limits my steel industry. It's the first of four or five maps where I've had coal.

Nick