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[Troll_Kaiser177]

All Dwarves since have been doing COMPLETELY fun until now with only the miners performing actions. Everyone else either only drinks/eats/sleeps and they have all the appropriate labor enabled and all the appropriate buildings constructed. They wont even move things out of the stockpile or deconstruct buildings :/ maybe I messed something up but any help is appreciated.

[Troll_Kaiser177]

*fine not fun sorry

[Footkerchief]

Are your buildings/workshops forbidden?

Also, you should move this thread to "DF Gameplay Questions" using the controls in the lower left.

[Laurin]

Could be something with burrows.

This sort of problem is often caused by disconnected stairs/ramps. That's why your miners are still working but the other dwarfs may not be able to reach their workshops or needed materials.

[Areyar]

I've had this occur also in perfectly functional forts, when suddenly there are more dwarves than planned for.

I think it has more to do with pathfinding and dwarves tumbling over eachother in the too narrow corridors.
There being too little booze and beds and as a consequence them being lethargic. Plus the trip to the shallow pond in the corner of the map might take an entire workday!

Also when I recruited everyone into inactive squads, they are supposed to train individually when they have free time in addition to their drinking, parties and other frivolities such as eating and sleeping.

I hazzard it is a combination of factors that cause a population to become ineffective.

-No booze (get more)
-Traffic (widen corridors and use burrows more)
-Install a hammerer to hammer those lazy bootless dorfs awake!
-Pathfinding problems due to blocked paths or too restrictive burrows can also be the problem ofcourse.

[Robsoie]

Having anything in your fortress transformed into a meeting hall or a memorial hall can be a problem too, sure it gives them happy thought, but they often prefer spending their time there instead of doing the work that is waiting to be done.

[Areyar]

AH, I usually have a meeting place for every ten dwarves or so.
Coupled with the too narrow corridors plus children and geese chasing each other from one to the other, this could produce a perfect storm....
(I should use burrows and petpens more effectively)

[Troll_Kaiser177]

After assessing all of your answers I have finally fixed it - it WAS  problem with burrows, sorry for taking so long to reply and next time I will categorize my question more appropriately