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[moondowner]

I wonder, if I'm the only one having this problem, but much as I would like to have a working milk/cheese industry, I simply forget to milk my animals all the time. I guess it's not a problem when you have enough of milkable animals to sustain a permanent "Milk Creature R" task for (at least one) Farmer's Workshop, but until then it goes like this:

me: "Milk Creature R"
Urist McMilker cancels the job: no milkable creature
me: "Shit, ok, have to wait. Let's see what I can do meanwhile... Oops, a year has passed".
Completely ineffective. And how often can I milk an animal anyway?

Same goes for shearing. Perhaps, that's when I need to use manager screen? Don't use it at all, to be honest.

[slothen]

best thing you can do is just occasionally (once per season i suppose) queue up some milk and shear jobs and set them to repeat.  Using the manager won't really help (although its great for a number of reasons).  DFHack has some feature that helps with workflow management, like auto-queueing certain jobs under certain conditions, but I don't know how you would go about doing that.

[jwest23]

Unfortunately, milking and shearing don't seem to work with dfhack's workflow.  Or, if it does, I welcome correction.

[moondowner]

I can't see why such jobs as milking and shearing aren't set to automatic (similar to tan a hide, render fat, etc.) It would really make sense, at least IRL you have to milk an animal once in a while.

[Miriage]

I can't see why such jobs as milking and shearing aren't set to automatic (similar to tan a hide, render fat, etc.) It would really make sense, at least IRL you have to milk an animal once in a while.

I would hate if it was automatic because I would be stuck with a heap of buckets that are useless and end up doing more work emptying the buckets then if I was actually milking animals.

[Stargazer]

Which is why you'd turn off auto-milking, just like you can turn off auto-weaving and whatnot.

[Miriage]

Nope same thng would happen as my loom, I wonder why random dwarves are running around getting killed in the caverns. I always forget to turn auto-stuff off.

[slothen]

I can't see why such jobs as milking and shearing aren't set to automatic (similar to tan a hide, render fat, etc.) It would really make sense, at least IRL you have to milk an animal once in a while.

I would hate if it was automatic because I would be stuck with a heap of buckets that are useless and end up doing more work emptying the buckets then if I was actually milking animals.

I dunno.  You can fit like 100 milk into a bucketbarrel.  That would be cool.  Auto-milking would be a nice option.