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UltraMagnus

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Construction for both walls has been suspended because a creature (the dwarf making the wall) was standing in the way of the building grounds.
It's been a while, and my carpenters still just eat and sleep without bothering to work on the wall again.
I'm relatively new to the game, but how long should it be until they resume construction?

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Re: Are carpenters supposed to suck, or am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2014, 02:26:57 pm »

I'm pretty sure it is a bug that's been fixed for the newest release. You can use Q then scroll over the constructions and press S to unsuspend it.
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Re: Are carpenters supposed to suck, or am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2014, 02:34:40 pm »

I'm pretty sure it is a bug that's been fixed for the newest release. You can use Q then scroll over the constructions and press S to unsuspend it.
I feel like a newb. Thanks for answering!

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Re: Are carpenters supposed to suck, or am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2014, 02:35:10 pm »

Yeah, this is a very old bug that just got fixed.  Whenever .40.05 comes out it shouldn't happen anymore.

However, it's not so simple as just unsuspending the construction.  Sometimes that works if someone just happened to end up on the tile by chance, but if it's because the worker is trying to stand there while building it you'll have to completely remove the job and redesignate the construction to get them to build it.
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Re: Are carpenters supposed to suck, or am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2014, 05:01:49 pm »

Yeah, this is a very old bug that just got fixed.  Whenever .40.05 comes out it shouldn't happen anymore.

However, it's not so simple as just unsuspending the construction.  Sometimes that works if someone just happened to end up on the tile by chance, but if it's because the worker is trying to stand there while building it you'll have to completely remove the job and redesignate the construction to get them to build it.

Any clue about the flying animals getting stuck bug?
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Re: Are carpenters supposed to suck, or am I doing something wrong?
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2014, 09:00:49 am »

I don't know the status of any bugs related to flying, unfortunately.  I know Toady mentioned fixing something, but he said it was related to fliers trying to jump and getting stuck.  No idea when or where that ever occurred.

Regarding the topic at hand, fliers seemed to cause this bug more often than anything in modded games where you were playing as flying creatures.  Hopefully the fix applies to them too.
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