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[Tevish Szat]

So, I found out that a random milker migrant had hunting enabled when his job was listed as "hunt".  I kind of wanted no one hunting, so I disabled hunting.  Job remained hunt.  That seemed normal, so, all right, I marked his crossbow as forbidden.  He did not drop the crossbow.  I marked his quiver and the bolts in the quiver as forbidden.  He kept using them.  I burrowed the idiot underground and he reported there... after making a kill.  Is this normal behavior?  Is there any way to tell a dwarf set to "hunt" to STOP RIGHT NOW?

[Telgin]

An emergency burrow might work.  It even works on kids after all.

[Merendel]

I've found both hunting and fishing will continue untill their current job has compleated even if you disable the labor.   Once their current hunt/fishing expidition has finished they wont start a new one if you turn off the labor.   I've made it a habit of checking therapist and disabeling hunting/fishing every time a migrant wave arives if I am not useing hunters/fishers or dont want more.   If you catch them early they stay inside like you want em to, otherwise you have to wait and hope the morons dont get ambushed.

[Aseaheru]

Its like that for all jobs. They gotta finish the job or become unable to do it.

[Tevish Szat]

Its like that for all jobs. They gotta finish the job or become unable to do it.

I had rather hoped forbidding or burrowing would apply the "Unable" -- I knew simply disabling the labor wouldn't do it.  I know I can make a dwarf stop "Store item in stockpile" by forbidding the hauled item, for instance, and burrowing dwarves will often cause them to drop something with "Item inaccessible" or such.  It simply seems a bit odd that forbidden crossbow/bolts/quiver neither stops hunt nor even prevents use of those items.

[Dwarfu]

Is there any way to tell a dwarf set to "hunt" to STOP RIGHT NOW?

In addition to what you did, try activating mining or woodcutting (you don't even have to unpause, just activate and deactivate).  It should clear him wanting to use his crossbow.  As far as the ammo, do you have other hunters besides this one?  If not, make sure you have the hunters' assigned ammo in the equipment screen removed.

[Garath]

I know it doesn't work for all jobs, but did you try to stop him through the (j)obs menu, canceling the job?

[AutomataKittay]

I know it doesn't work for all jobs, but did you try to stop him through the (j)obs menu, canceling the job?

Doesn't works for hunting, I've tried it a few times in past. I forget what other job can't be stopped, but they're mostly very annoying ones.

[Aseaheru]

fishing, crafting, forging, masonry...
any a few things are nice like allowing them to stop fast.