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[part of children bugs squashed] Bug #535: Equipping weapons/armor on military is erratic

73 (10%)

Bug #1582: Injured dwarf in bed in stocked hospital ignored by idle doctors and #94: Injured dwarves not recovered

63 (8.6%)

Bug #2712: weapons, especially whips, cut through steel armor like butter

35 (4.8%)

Bug #1451: Military equipment interferes with civilian equipment (picks/axes/crossbows/quivers)

34 (4.7%)

Bug #5097:  Names overwriting text with TrueType

24 (3.3%)

[FIXED] Bug #5232: Streams/brooks/rivers getting turned stagnant by nearby pools/ponds

48 (6.6%)

Bug #296: Pools/smears/spatters of blood, dust and other materials multiply themselves, get tracked around too much

22 (3%)

Bug #2922: Population Cap not working

39 (5.3%)

Bug #5312: Undead reanimate too quickly (and forever)

62 (8.5%)

Bug #2780: Turtles went extinct on my map (applies to all aquatic vermin)

26 (3.6%)

Bug #33: Bronze colossus, skeletal creatures, fleshballs, and others are impossible to kill

13 (1.8%)

Bug #3898: Entire Bone Stacks are used in Reactions instead of a single Bone

12 (1.6%)

Bug #5611: Cities overwhelmingly build textile industry shops, almost never wood, stone, or metal-related shops - results in nearly no weapons/armor for sale.

22 (3%)

Bug #5263: Abandoned shops not reclaimed - Older towns are almost entirely abandoned in spite of Legends listing population in thousands

17 (2.3%)

Bug #2327: Blunt weapons extremely ineffective, extended single combat with groundhog

12 (1.6%)

Bug #4552: Siegers waiting by bodies of dead leaders

16 (2.2%)

Bug #136 When embarking on large area, DF hits 2GB memory limit and crashes

16 (2.2%)

Bug #412: Nobles job priority is weird (trading, diagnose, talking with liaison and attend meeting jobs have extremely low priority)

32 (4.4%)

bug #4230 - bucket with water inside becomes unusable

5 (0.7%)

Bug #4550: Dodging into river/lava/from cliff etc

2 (0.3%)

Bug #4590: Unarmored creatures give in to pain too easily - Elephant killed by three hoary marmots when elephant gives in to pain from nibbling

7 (1%)

Bug #5106: Slain bandits/companions respawn/duplicate in their original location

7 (1%)

Bug #425: Dwarves Not Cleaning Blood

25 (3.4%)

[FIXED] Bug #1376: Presence of saltwater marsh causes mountain brooks/pools to become salty

4 (0.5%)

Bug #3685: Goblin squads invading a fortress will kill their non-goblin squadmates, sparking loyalty cascade

6 (0.8%)

Bugs #287 & #3147: Medical Dwarfs prefer using non-hospital stockpiles than hospital stocks

7 (1%)

Bug #5598: Town shops/cabinets contain human-sized clothes regardless of size of actual residents

6 (0.8%)

Bug #3015: Invader/sieger mounts flee combat, preventing their riders from fighting (worse with [FLIER] tag)

5 (0.7%)

Bug #1346: Adamantine thread used for suturing.

11 (1.5%)

Bug #3169: Bone carvers suffer art defacement when somebody leaves the map with stuck-in masterpiece bolts

6 (0.8%)

Bug #874: Dwarves refuse to butcher some corpses (buzzards in particular)

3 (0.4%)

Bug #4430: Large gems not moved to stockpile

9 (1.2%)

Bug #3981: Dwarf with "Installing Colony in Hive" Job stuck in middle of nowhere.

18 (2.5%)

Bug #5102: Sewers inhabitants hanging out underwater near outflows (some of them stuck to walls)

4 (0.5%)

Bug #4299: Some events can't be zoomed to (from announcements menu) even though they have a definite location

23 (3.2%)

Bug #3190: Long Patrol Negative Thoughts seem to escalate, even with long break.

15 (2.1%)

Bug #434: Reaction jobs (unlike other jobs) don't look outside burrow for workers and raw materials (works through manager)

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 725

[Kogut]

Bug #4550: Dodging into river/lava/from cliff etc - 2 (0.3%)

Bug or feature?

It is an open bug on bugtracker, reviewed by Foot, Toady admitted that there is a problem ("It'll be interesting to see the new contenders for "worst dodge decision" that come out of this"), so I will call it a bug (disclaimer: I am the person that report this).

[Mr. Palau]

There could maybe be an option to reserve a few containers for hauling only, which would be emptied into another appropriate container so they're always available. Similar to how barrels and bins can be reserved for jobs like brewing.

This is such a good idea, it must go in the suggestion section.  +1

[theothersteve7]

I'm of the opinion that creatures should "succumb to wounds" and die if they have enough mangled/severed body parts.  That would fix about half of the combat issues.

[Mike Mayday]

Names overwriting text with TrueType - is it fixed or is it just me?

[Kogut]

Names overwriting text with TrueType - is it fixed or is it just me?

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5097 - Open, not mentioned in devlogs... But maybe it was fixed by accident, during rewriting interface code (using entire screen instead of 80x25).

[Rorax]

While I find some of the bugs terrible. I Am thinking about the newbie population of players to dwarf fortress rather than us old hats. and because of that. I feel none are worse than the erratic military behavior with equipment.

[krenshala]

While I find some of the bugs terrible. I Am thinking about the newbie population of players to dwarf fortress rather than us old hats. and because of that. I feel none are worse than the erratic military behavior with equipment.

I haven't had a problem with erratic equipment, except when conflicting with a civilian uniform (woodcutter,hunter,miner). Since those were two different entries, which did you mean?

[dennislp3]

the one where they don't collect the right gear (only one sock or boot or whatever) or they drop something and try and pick it up in a loop or they simply just don't grab something (like a damn weapon!)

[NW_Kohaku]

While I find some of the bugs terrible. I Am thinking about the newbie population of players to dwarf fortress rather than us old hats. and because of that. I feel none are worse than the erratic military behavior with equipment.

I haven't had a problem with erratic equipment, except when conflicting with a civilian uniform (woodcutter,hunter,miner). Since those were two different entries, which did you mean?

the one where they don't collect the right gear (only one sock or boot or whatever) or they drop something and try and pick it up in a loop or they simply just don't grab something (like a damn weapon!)

It also includes the lack of in-menu means of discerning which weapons or equipment are already claimed when you issue specific armor or weapon assignments.  Generic weapon assignments are also problematic, as they tend to wind up in those stupid inability to pickup their weapon loops.  This leads to the excrutiatingly slow and painful setup where you have to find specific weapons outside of the military menu, manage them by pen-and-paper to figure out which ones are unassigned, and then assign them to each dwarf in your military.  It is probably the single worst interface sin DF has ever committed, and that's REALLY saying something. 

There's the bug where dwarves put gear on in layers based upon what order the gear was manufactured in, rather than what order would make any logical sense or what order you tell them to equip the armor in (so they put their platemail on first, then try and fail to put the padding layers on over them).

There are the general ranged weapon ammunition bugs, where "training" ammunition is just plain not respected. 

[Mr. Palau]

There's the bug where dwarves put gear on in layers based upon what order the gear was manufactured in, rather than what order would make any logical sense or what order you tell them to equip the armor in (so they put their platemail on first, then try and fail to put the padding layers on over them).

What if I buy the equipment, is it in the order they were bought in?

[NW_Kohaku]

There's the bug where dwarves put gear on in layers based upon what order the gear was manufactured in, rather than what order would make any logical sense or what order you tell them to equip the armor in (so they put their platemail on first, then try and fail to put the padding layers on over them).

What if I buy the equipment, is it in the order they were bought in?

I would assume order spawned, which means the order they were in on the camel or wagon that brought it in to trade.  Trading just changes a flag on those items.  What you are looking for are item ID, which is given at the time of creation.

[Mr. Palau]

There's the bug where dwarves put gear on in layers based upon what order the gear was manufactured in, rather than what order would make any logical sense or what order you tell them to equip the armor in (so they put their platemail on first, then try and fail to put the padding layers on over them).

What if I buy the equipment, is it in the order they were bought in?

I would assume order spawned, which means the order they were in on the camel or wagon that brought it in to trade.  Trading just changes a flag on those items.  What you are looking for are item ID, which is given at the time of creation.

So what you are saying is that If I am buying armor, I should buy all the under armor I ever need before I buy anything else?

[NW_Kohaku]

So what you are saying is that If I am buying armor, I should buy all the under armor I ever need before I buy anything else?

This is the specific bug, by the way: #4932

Anyway, that's not the only way to deal with it.

You can order specific armor to be worn, for example.  So, you can order 2 chainmails made, and then 1 breastplate, and then order those specific chainmails and breastplates worn on one specific dwarf before making the next set of armors. 

Depending on the order in which the goods are spawned in a caravan (I'm not sure if caravans might load goods in reverse-order or not), you could buy goods from a caravan, and just make sure to assign the chainmails with platemails that come from lower down in the list, or else with other items (like cloaks) that appear from later caravans.

[Kogut]

Toady fixed two bug related to "Equipping weapons/armor on military is erratic ": 0001998: Player can't set the more generic uniform options, like "any headgear" and 0005741: Boots don't count as shoes, military gets bad thoughts (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=1998 / http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5741) + multiple random fixes (fire AI, jobs use the nearest square instead of starting at top left, more reasonable decisions, auto-assigned children to mother's pasture/pond, added confirmation for burrow deletion, cleared kill orders after completion, added ability to set up generic armor options in uniforms (like the ones the defaults have))!

[HiEv]

Considering that some issues have been solved or have few votes, plus there are new issues with minecarts, falling objects, etc., and also it sounds like Toady might be wrapping up the bug fixes soon to work on the "hero role" stuff, should we do a new poll after v0.34.11 is released?

If so, we should probably start taking new bug vote suggestions now.