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hoover84

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Nobody is chopping wood?
« on: March 25, 2012, 10:51:27 am »
So, I have lots of wooden training axes sitting in my stockpiles...but none of my five woodcutters will do anything - they all just sit around with no job.  This is the newest release (0.34.06), and I didn't see any notes on not allowing wooden axes for woodcutting anymore.  Is this a bug?  All dwarfs in question have the woodcutter labor enabled, trees are designated for cutting just like always, and axes are sitting in a stockpile (not forbidden).  Any suggestions?
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FrisianDude

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Re: Nobody is chopping wood?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2012, 10:55:54 am »
Check your militia, maybe the axes have been claimed by Dwarfs told to "indiv choice, melee" or "Individual choice, weapon."
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Re: Nobody is chopping wood?
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 10:56:29 am »
try building something there to see if they can actually reach the area. I sometimes mess up with ramps, so it's a possibility.
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Re: Nobody is chopping wood?
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2012, 11:15:26 am »
Do they also have mining enabled?
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Re: Nobody is chopping wood?
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2012, 11:35:42 am »
Quote from: BigD145 on March 25, 2012, 11:15:26 am
Do they also have mining enabled?

Having the woodcutting labour enabled automatically disables mining and hunting
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Kweri

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Re: Nobody is chopping wood?
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2012, 12:02:58 pm »
Did you enable woodcutting with Dwarf Therapist? I had this issue the other day. For some reason setting the labor with DT would not cause the dwarves to recognize it.

What I did to fix it was to disable the labor using the in-game menus, exit from the menus and unpause a moment (unsure if this step was necessary), then re-enable woodcutting using in-game menus. My dwarves went on to happily chop wood after.
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Re: Nobody is chopping wood?
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2012, 12:35:36 pm »
Are training axes even usable to chop wood?
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Re: Nobody is chopping wood?
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2012, 12:38:07 pm »
Quote from: kardofaces on March 25, 2012, 12:35:36 pm
Are training axes even usable to chop wood?

Should be.
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Kweri

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Re: Nobody is chopping wood?
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2012, 12:40:56 pm »
I was using training axes in the scenario detailed above, so yes.
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