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Mimodo

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Refusing to move
« on: July 03, 2012, 01:18:24 am »
I have one of my military units who is refusing to move. He has the job of "pick up equipment", but instead is standing in the one spot, refusing to do anything. He is an archer unit, and the entire outside is littered with arrows, which I have unforbidden. I have tried putting him on break, station orders, and kill orders, but he stands still doing nothing. If I wait until he is hungry or thirsty, will this force him to abandon the task he's not doing, and eat, or will he starve sitting in the one spot? Is there something I can do to make him move?
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2012, 01:20:26 am »
Did you check the burrows? He may be trying to get equipment from a stockpile that's outside of his burrow.
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2012, 01:32:10 am »
yeah, I've turned off all burrows... It's in a route he uses regularly, but this time he just stopped
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2012, 01:36:40 am »
Is your squad overbudget for its ammo? That could be another issue.
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You see, here's how I think this works:
Overseer: Welcome to the military! You need to wear socks! Dorf: Oh, I should get military socks. My socks are civilian socks. Dorf discards socks Dorf: You know, I need a whole lot of gear now. I should get socks... last. Oh, but these steel boots with the white goo on them are nice!
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2012, 01:43:42 am »
overbudget?
He is a squad of one (the others decided to go hero and die)
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2012, 07:08:24 am »
I've had this happen too. I think he wants to pick up bolts that are unavailable (in a moat/someone's quiver/bin being hauled). A station order tends to snap them out of it, but I haven't found the real reason why it happens.
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2012, 07:35:59 am »
Unassign him/her/it from the squad completely through the military tab. Make sure it has a civ labor enabled. Make game go (you might also want to v-Follow the dorf in question to make sure this works). Reassign it to a squad once you see it start to move again.
Seemed to work for me.
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2012, 12:16:13 pm »
It might be an armor issue.  If you have assigned the uniform to be 'over existing clothing' this can cause problems.  Use (k) to see if he is standing over an item.
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2012, 02:49:54 pm »
I'm getting this too, I've only noticed it happening with military dorfs and onyl with the "Pick up equipment" job.
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2012, 06:25:01 pm »
yea, this happens to me all the time... i think it's the training and combat bolts assignment... it seem that if they have bolts for combat only and they are about to train they can't empty out the combat bolts to pick up the training bolts so they just stand there... i solved this problem by not assigning them any combat only bolts and just give them wooden bolts for training and combat... when a siege happens i change the bolts to metal and station them for combat... and change it back after the siege ends... this seems to work so far... but rather annoying work around...
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2012, 10:00:03 pm »
Quote from: Mimodo on July 03, 2012, 01:18:24 am
I have one of my military units who is refusing to move. He has the job of "pick up equipment", but instead is standing in the one spot, refusing to do anything. He is an archer unit, and the entire outside is littered with arrows, which I have unforbidden. I have tried putting him on break, station orders, and kill orders, but he stands still doing nothing. If I wait until he is hungry or thirsty, will this force him to abandon the task he's not doing, and eat, or will he starve sitting in the one spot? Is there something I can do to make him move?

Did you check that you have assigned bolts? Did you check that he is not injured too much to pick up equipment? Did you check that he has a quiver?
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Re: Refusing to move
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2012, 11:56:57 pm »
All 3... perfect health and whatnot... It was fixed by removing him from the squad, then reassigning him
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