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Tinfect

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Kea Men and newly Tree-Dwelling Dwarves
« on: August 03, 2016, 01:04:05 am »
So, I've been suddenly beset by about a half-dozen Kea Men. First I head of them was when one took off with something that everyone was too lazy to grab out of the Depot. Then about every single goddamn dwarf on the surface interrupted their orders because of some Bird People flying several levels above them.

Next thing I know, a good number of my Dwarves are idling. Turns out, they'd all got stuck up Trees.
What in all the nine-hells is going on here? Can Kea Men throw Dwarves up trees or something?
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Re: Kea Men and newly Tree-Dwelling Dwarves
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2016, 01:09:03 am »
Nah. Dwarves may climb up trees when afraid.

While they can climb down trees sometimes, frequently they won't, opting instead to dehydrate there due different pathing between "fight mode" that allows things such as jumping out of fortification and satisfying needs.

Build some up and down stairs or wall+ramps to let them get down.
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Re: Kea Men and newly Tree-Dwelling Dwarves
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2016, 03:14:27 am »
The best way to get away from a flying threat is obviously to climb a tree...

As Fleeting Frames said, build stairs and/or ramps. If you're in a hurry because of dehydration you can use the option to cut the trees down instead (unless the woodcutter is up there, but you can probably designate the tree up at the level where he is). Cutting the trees down is faster (and should be done regardless), but there's a risk the dorfs in the trees get injured or killed in the process, typically not from the fall, but from the logs using Road Runner anvil logic.
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Re: Kea Men and newly Tree-Dwelling Dwarves
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2016, 03:41:43 am »
Thanks for the suggestions, I managed to get most of the Dwarves down from their single-layer-up roosts by just cutting the tree from underneath them. I had to set up a Staircase for him.
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Re: Kea Men and newly Tree-Dwelling Dwarves
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2016, 04:54:34 pm »
you can disable climbing in creatures_standard.raw :
   [CANNOT_CLIMB]

it will help you by not getting your dwarves on trees all the time and also not letting your marksdwarves climb through fortifications to meet the enemy hand to hand.
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Re: Kea Men and newly Tree-Dwelling Dwarves
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2016, 05:08:26 pm »
Quote from: MorsDux on August 21, 2016, 04:54:34 pm
you can disable climbing in creatures_standard.raw :
   [CANNOT_CLIMB]

it will help you by not getting your dwarves on trees all the time and also not letting your marksdwarves climb through fortifications to meet the enemy hand to hand.

Also I think it is more dorfy if they cannot climb
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