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[utunnels]

Is there an easier way to let dorf, for example, wear gauntlets over mittens and ignore gloves?
If I choose "over clothing", they won't wear gauntlets because they already have a pair of gloves.

[GhostDwemer]

Specify the entire outfit, clothes and armor, and set it to replace clothing. This also seems to help military dwarves replace worn clothing in a more timely fashion.

[utunnels]

Well that'll take a while to finish.

[GhostDwemer]

What do you mean? It takes me about a minute to specify a new uniform from scratch, and you can make a macro for it. Trousers, greaves, shirt, chainmail, cloak, breastplate, helm, hood, mittens, gauntlets, shoes, boots, shield, weapon. Set any materials you want. Done. Took me longer to type it than it does to specify it in game.

[utunnels]

LOL
Fine.
I think I'm too lazy.

[PatrikLundell]

Doesn't work for me. The dorfs typically end up with one leg with socks and one with high boots, one hand with a gauntlet and on with mitts and gloves, so I've given up and allocate replacing military equipment only.

[§k]

Do not produce or import gloves.

[Larix]

Dwarfs bring gloves upon immigration. Not making new gloves isn't a solution, they'll just keep wearing their old gloves and mittens until they rot away (takes 7-8 years).

To reliably get proper armour on your morons you need to set "replace clothing" in the uniform setting. The most efficient way is to

go to the "m"ilitary screen
enter "n" - uniform definitions
set up a uniform with your desired items - a simple approach would be just to add non-conflicting clothing pieces (cloaks, hoods, mittens, socks) to the "metal armour" uniform
set "r"eplace clothing _on this page_, this makes it standard for the uniform

if you now order a squad to use this modified uniform, they'll shed their civilian clothes and put on proper armour without further prodding. At most a minute of setup to save yourself from having to muck around trying to yank caps and gloves and shoes off your soldiers.

[utunnels]

Dwarfs bring gloves upon immigration. Not making new gloves isn't a solution, they'll just keep wearing their old gloves and mittens until they rot away (takes 7-8 years).

To reliably get proper armour on your morons you need to set "replace clothing" in the uniform setting. The most efficient way is to

go to the "m"ilitary screen
enter "n" - uniform definitions
set up a uniform with your desired items - a simple approach would be just to add non-conflicting clothing pieces (cloaks, hoods, mittens, socks) to the "metal armour" uniform
set "r"eplace clothing _on this page_, this makes it standard for the uniform

if you now order a squad to use this modified uniform, they'll shed their civilian clothes and put on proper armour without further prodding. At most a minute of setup to save yourself from having to muck around trying to yank caps and gloves and shoes off your soldiers.

Thanks for the tip.

Here's my settings:

When the squad was created, I choose over clothing and assign the squad a uniform (for example, metal armor).
When they have all their necessary armor pieces (by then they should also have decent weapon skill levels), I switch to replace clothing. Then I replace their metal armor with breastplate and mail shirt. Then I add some cloak, trousers, mittens, socks and hoods if I like.
When they become elite(thus have reasonable high armor user skill as well), I will add more mail shirts and cloaks. Doing this earlier may result in ultra slow dorfs.

I used to give a new marksdwarf full set of metals, and he walked like crawling.


By the way, is there any dfhack script to save and load squad settings?