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[Chalk]

So I have this army, see? And my dwarves with the crossbows, they're having some issues with my archery ranges.

1: They used to practise, back in the day. Now, they sit around shouting "Urist McCrossbow cancels Shooting at Archery Range: No floor space."
2: I have ammunition (and a veritable flood of it at that), crossbows, quivers, the works. They are carrying the bows around. They are in my off-duty squad.
3: I have about ten targets, each individually designated as a room. After some initial stupidity on my part, they are all even set up to shoot in the right direction.
4: I fear the upcoming goblin onslaught.

Can anyone give me some help on this? I'm puzzled.

[Jim Groovester]

You need to make sure that your targets are facing the correct way. 'q' over them and double check.

[Chalk]

Nope, they're definitely correctly aligned. Thank you though.

[Smew]

No floor space? can we get a picture of these archery ranges? they have a good amount of range, right?

[alexwazer]

Are the designated areas for shooting clear of any obstacle? Marksdwarves shoot from the end of the designated area, so large "rooms" are easy to block unintentionally.

[Chalk]

What my archery ranges look like:


Those bolts are coming from an archer, who decided to finally go practice... right after we were hit by a goblin ambush. Way to go, guy.

I am still getting the Canceled message from my other marksdwarves, so presumably the problem is not solved.

[Jim Groovester]

How far do you extend the room overlays?

[Chalk]

As long as the range itself + one tile of hallway. I'm... somewhat OCD about symmetry.

There's no horizontal overlap; the walls prevent that. Would tearing those down help at all?

[alexwazer]

I've used similar range setup without running into any problem, so I don't think removing walls would help. However, I can't see anything wrong, so I can't offer any other suggestions.


Edit: Actually, there is one thing. Normally I use 3 tile wide corridors. So with ranges reaching 1 tile into the corridor, it always leave a 1 free tile between the opposites ranges. You could try to reduce the room size so at least 1 tile of undesignated floor allow access to the range. I highly doubt it's going to help, but it only takes a few seconds to test... and we're talking about DF, so nothing surprise me anymore 

[Mechanical Yeti]

Do your rooms fill up the entire space? They need to be at least 3 squares long: 1 for the target, 1 empty space, and 1 for the dwarf. That's where I think this error commonly comes from.

Someone asked that already.

Try re-designating the targets as rooms. If that doesn't work, try deactivating and reactivating your marksdwarves.

[Chalk]

Thanks for the help, guys! I am still getting the message, but they are practicing now. Their names are now the cheerful green of swift death.

I don't know what triggered the change, but I am happy.