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[smoothestjazz]

So I'm picking DF back up after awhile to tool around in the new update and I noticed that the new starter pack doesn't have a hunter preset dwarf in. I embarked anyway and just gave one of my guys a crossbow and a bunch of bolts and told him that he's a hunter now, but he doesn't seem to want to kill things for me. Why is this? I've seen some wildlife around so I know that's not the reason.

[Moonshadow101]

You didn't mention a quiver. Does he have a quiver?

Also, make sure that wildlife is stuff he can path to. That excludes birds, and sometimes things on the other side of rivers.

[greycat]

Hunters:
1) Turn on the "Ambusher" labor.
2) Make sure there is a crossbow available, which is not claimed by a military dwarf.  You can't directly assign a crossbow to a hunter.  They will only take whatever is left over after all the military squad positions have claimed theirs.
3) Assign bolts to the "Hunters" pseudo-squad in the military ammo screen, m f.
4) Make sure there is an unassigned quiver for the hunter to pick up.  These are never assigned directly; any military dwarf or hunter who is given a ranged weapon will try to grab a quiver automatically.  Quivers are made of leather only.
5) Make sure the hunter is NOT in any military squad.

[Deboche]

This could be related to the bug where animals with the [flyer] tag prevent invasions from happening - invasions of everything, even wildlife