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[Ruttiger]

When I designate an archery range, do I have to make it encompass all tagets to make them used, or do I have to assign each target to be a range to make them work?

[Boatmurderer]

From my experience, if you have several targets on a single range, it will be treated as a single range (i.e., 1 marksdwarf at a time shooting). I would have upwards to 10 marksdwarves off-duty with a range of 5 targets, but most of them would just mill about. When I dug separate ranges with separate targets, I started getting some shooting done. Had Elites in no time.

[Proteus]

Jep, betetr make single rooms with one target each.
I always make designs simular to this one:

code:

x x x x
x x x x
x x x x
xTxTxTx
xxxxxxx

And make each range so big that it spans from the target to the beginning of the range.

[Ruttiger]

I've got them set up in a line, but  all set as ranges.  Suddenly my dwarves are practicing.

[Crafty Barnardo]

Yeah, there is no need to put them in separate rooms, but they will each have to be designated separately.

[Boatmurderer]

One more thing based on an elementary mistake I just made... make sure you set a shooting direction! They won't shoot on a north-south 1 tile wide range when you leave it at the default east to west.

[Dogman]

Archy ranges need to be a minimum of 3 tiles; 1 tile for the target, 1 empty space, and 1 tile for the Dwarf to stand on.

[Jude]

I sure wish archery ranges had umkh size designation instead of just plus/minus.

[1138]

I love it when you have a dwarf firing off bolts at his target and another dwarf cleaning broken bolts right in the line of fire! Scared me to death the first time I saw that.

[Lord Byte]

Archy ranges need to be a minimum of 3 tiles; 1 tile for the target, 1 empty space, and 1 tile for the Dwarf to stand on.

Yup but you can easily make all those tiles an ammo stockpile

[Omega2]

Archy ranges need to be a minimum of 3 tiles; 1 tile for the target, 1 empty space, and 1 tile for the Dwarf to stand on.

Yup but you can easily make all those tiles an ammo stockpile

GENIUS!

*skitters off to relocate the bone bolt stockpiles*

[Eater of Vermin]

Now, if only there was a way to set the stockpile so that any stacks of 1 bolt would be moved to the archery range instead of the main ammo stockpile...

[Boatmurderer]

Meh, set your training ammo up to be only bone/wood... no metals. Set your metal ammo stockpiles in your pillboxes/towers/wall fortifications/etc. If it were only 1 metal bolt, it wouldn't do you any good being in the training ammo piles, and if it were 1 bone or wood bolt, it doesn't have any business at the front lines to begin with.

[Hyndis]

Dorfs only use wood/bone bolts to practice with. Thus, if you have a supply of metal bolts, they'll equip those but only actually fire them against hostile critters, such as carp or megabeasts. Then all of your wood/bone bolts will be expended during training, so you can safely have a huge archery range and do extensive archery training all at one time, as woodcutters allow.

Also, if you're lucky enough to get sieges, a timesaving way to get bones from them is to just have your dorfs dump corpses. Drop them into an indoors pit constructed such that miasma isn't a problem. The bodies will decay, then simply reclaim the bones. Also zone the bottom of the pit as a refuse pile so there's no need to move the bones. While you don't get as much from it as buchering them all, its definitely a timesaver if you're short on haulers.

[Skanky]

Archy ranges need to be a minimum of 3 tiles; 1 tile for the target, 1 empty space, and 1 tile for the Dwarf to stand on.

Awesome info! Now my ranges no longer need to be ~9 tiles wide each!