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[raxistaicho]

Abandon post, rush out suicidally into a swarm of undead, it's all the same.

Some might remember me from a previous undead topic about undead taking over the surface. Well they came again, so I attempted the same trick as before, but the problem is, my marksdwarves kept abandoning their station to "Pickup equipment", presumably off the dwarf caravan that came at the same time as the undead and got rapidly destroyed.

How to get them to NOT do that? I KINDA don't want my marksdwarves going out where the undead are, and I can't just seal off the fortress entirely because then I can't filter in the undead to kill them.

[Melting Sky]

Step one: Seal the fort so they can't path to the whatever piece of junk they are obsessed with. The mission they are on will take priority over any other command you give them, even individualized squad orders directed at them.

Step Two: Go into the military menu and give each of your afflicted dwarves an equipment set where each piece is defined as a specific item that exists somewhere inside your fort.

You might want to switch the squad they belong to back and forth between active and inactive once so that it forces a new put on uniform order. It took my afflicted dwarf a dangerous number of tics to snap and take the new equipment orders but he did finally turn around just in time. He had already sailed through the front doors faster than the lever puller could do his job but ultimately survived his stupidity.

[heritage727]

Also make sure that everything outside is forbidden, either through standing orders or by manually forbidding stuff. That should at least keep them from running outside to get a bolt that's a few steps closer than the ammo stockpile.

[arbarbonif]

Also make sure that everything outside is forbidden, either through standing orders or by manually forbidding stuff. That should at least keep them from running outside to get a bolt that's a few steps closer than the ammo stockpile.

Especially make sure that includes used ammo.