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[Urist McWhatTheHellGuys?]

Well the topic more or less says it all. The ghost of my legendary miner is now manning my ballista, and will fire it. Now I've looked at other stuff ghosts can do and this doesn't appear on the list as best I can tell.

[ImagoDeo]

That's pretty cool. I hope the ghostly duties won't change with the next update, to be honest. Ghostly animal trainers, fishermen, and ballista operators are just so cool.

[Urist McWhatTheHellGuys?]

I was hoping someone knew enough about the coding to tell me why he's operating a ballista of all things. He's got no training and was never assigned it.

[Telgin]

It's definitely a bug, so it's anyone's guess why it's happening.  It's kind of like the bug where a fell mood can lead to a ghost being murdered and turned into an artifact, but even more strange since it's apparently deciding that a ghost is a valid worker for the job.  I'm not sure if siege weaponry use different code for job selection for some reason, but it seems weird if so.

If you want him to stop you can probably just disable the ballista, or failing that, deconstruct and reconstruct it.  It would be interesting to see if he gets picked for the job again if you reactivate the ballista.

Incidentally, he might make a good siege operator if he's fearless, and a ghost probably is.

[Uristits]

That is bad as fuck

They see ghost operating giant arrows they be sure to run, you don't wanna trifle with that

[Mohl]

Well, at least you can assure that when the fortress eventually dies, the place'll turn into a worse version of Anor Londo, specifically with those dragonslayer arrows.

[Duuvian]

Well done OP, you've inadvertently weaponized ghosts.

[Button]

I was hoping someone knew enough about the coding to tell me why he's operating a ballista of all things. He's got no training and was never assigned it.

Wait, what? You're sure about this?

Can you upload the save please?

[TheFlame52]

I remember back on the topics for ghostly fishing and animal training, people were asking how to weaponize ghostly labor. Well, here it is, ghostly siege operators. Now for science, see if you can get him to operate a catapult.

[Urist McWhatTheHellGuys?]

How do I upload a save?

[Koremu]

So are ghosts immune to fear of invaders & undead?

[GavJ]

Ghosts are already known to go fishing and to do a couple other things I don't remember. (Animal training I think?)

It has been hypothesized that they might do any job that doesn't require explicit instructions from the overseer, but is instead automatically generated, if they were assigned to be allowed such duties during life. Which would include ballista operating.

[Button]

How do I upload a save?

http://dffd.wimbli.com/

Ghosts are already known to go fishing and to do a couple other things I don't remember. (Animal training I think?)

It has been hypothesized that they might do any job that doesn't require explicit instructions from the overseer, but is instead automatically generated, if they were assigned to be allowed such duties during life. Which would include ballista operating.

Yes, it's fishing and animal training.

It's the fact that Urist says the dwarf didn't have siege operator enabled in life that's making me scratch my head. Our understanding of this bugture had been that the dwarf in question had to die with the labor enabled, or at least with skill in the labor. A random ghost taking up ballista operating with no experience in life, and without "permission" to do so? That's pretty odd.

[Dirst]

How do I upload a save?

http://dffd.wimbli.com/

Ghosts are already known to go fishing and to do a couple other things I don't remember. (Animal training I think?)

It has been hypothesized that they might do any job that doesn't require explicit instructions from the overseer, but is instead automatically generated, if they were assigned to be allowed such duties during life. Which would include ballista operating.

Yes, it's fishing and animal training.

It's the fact that Urist says the dwarf didn't have siege operator enabled in life that's making me scratch my head. Our understanding of this bugture had to this point been based on the understanding that the dwarf in question had to die with the labor enabled, or at least with skill in the labor. A random ghost taking up ballista operating with no experience in life, and without "permission" to do so? That's pretty odd.

Did the ghost have a preference for ballista, ballista ammo, or the materials used?

[Nyxalinth]

There's is so much win in just the title alone.  Let us know how he works out!