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Leonidas

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Grizzly Bear Man Won't Shoot
« on: May 17, 2020, 12:48:56 pm »
The grizzly bear man has a crossbow in his left hand and a quiver on his upper body with lots of bolts. He's 18 tiles away from an FB in a pit, and he won't shoot. I had the same setup with a dwarf, and he pumped bolts into the FB until he went legendary.

Is the problem here racial? Are grizzly bear men capable of using crossbows?
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Re: Grizzly Bear Man Won't Shoot
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2020, 10:32:11 pm »
He probably can't see it. Dwarves can see perfectly in low light so they don't have any issue fighting in the caverns. Bear men probably have worse ability to see in the dark so they won't be able to use ranged weapons effectively in the caverns.
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Re: Grizzly Bear Man Won't Shoot
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2020, 12:35:55 am »
Quote from: nogoodnames on May 17, 2020, 10:32:11 pm
He probably can't see it. Dwarves can see perfectly in low light so they don't have any issue fighting in the caverns. Bear men probably have worse ability to see in the dark so they won't be able to use ranged weapons effectively in the caverns.
You're right! Dwarves have the LOW_LIGHT_VISION token. Once I moved the grizzly bear man closer to the FB, he was able to resume archery practice.

So here's another mystery. The grizzly bear man is moving much slower than the dwarves, even though he has high agility. Do have any idea why?
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Re: Grizzly Bear Man Won't Shoot
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2020, 01:13:05 am »
Quote from: Leonidas on May 18, 2020, 12:35:55 am
So here's another mystery. The grizzly bear man is moving much slower than the dwarves, even though he has high agility. Do have any idea why?
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=9588
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Re: Grizzly Bear Man Won't Shoot
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2020, 12:46:01 am »
you can tame grizzly men?
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Re: Grizzly Bear Man Won't Shoot
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2020, 02:02:53 am »
Quote from: ltprifti on May 19, 2020, 12:46:01 am
you can tame grizzly men?
In adventure mode, you can play as a grizzly bear man---and all sorts of other animal-men. Then you can retire the adventurer into a retired fort, unretire the fort, and you've got an animal-man as a citizen. Except that as a meanderer he moves really slow, so he's not very useful outside of combat. My plan is to train him up in the fort, re-retire the fort, and then unretire the grizzly bear man a an adventurer.
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Re: Grizzly Bear Man Won't Shoot
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2020, 02:51:56 am »
Quote from: ltprifti on May 19, 2020, 12:46:01 am
you can tame grizzly men?
You can also accept a petition from a grizzly man visitor (at least in theory: I've had only a handful of animal people visitors, and no petitioners since visitors were introduced).
You can probably hack animal people to behave in the same buggy was as gremlins do (the only creature you can trap and (eventually) get as a citizen in vanilla). Note buggy, though. There are lots of bugs involved.
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