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Zankaru

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Zankaru cancels fun: dwarves on break
« on: August 06, 2009, 03:00:03 pm »
Was wanting to know if dwarves went on break often after hauling heavy items, say, if I decided to move my armor stockpile that needs 50+ steel items moved more than 80 tiles?

I have had my haulers go on break atleast twice in this hour alone and apprently a 'break' last weeks in DF. Is there any way to keep dawrves from going on break?

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Quote from: XSI on August 07, 2009, 03:42:18 pm
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Re: Zankaru cancels fun: dwarves on break
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2009, 03:07:54 pm »
Not really. You can make them break (heh) out of it, by drafting and undrafting them, but that's likely to cause an unhappy thought if they don't have some military skills.
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Re: Zankaru cancels fun: dwarves on break
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2009, 03:12:54 pm »
Quote from: DeathOfRats on August 06, 2009, 03:07:54 pm
Not really. You can make them break (heh) out of it, by drafting and undrafting them, but that's likely to cause an unhappy thought if they don't have some military skills.

Luckily all my dwarves have novice wrestling (incase I ever needed to do a mass defense) so that worked perfectly, and no bad thoughts from it either. Thanks a ton!
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"Hesitation leads to disaster" - Kishimoto
"Courage imperils life, fear protects it" - da'vinci
"All warfare is based on deception" - Sun Tzu
"In death all things appear fair" - Homer
Quote from: XSI on August 07, 2009, 03:42:18 pm
At one of my older forts, I had a cat with a kobold kill to it's name, I locked a kobold into a small pit and then kept tossing cats in till it died.....For Science!

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Re: Zankaru cancels fun: dwarves on break
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2009, 06:07:35 am »
You're welcome! Did you check your peasants to see if they had an unhappy thought after being undrafted? Dwarves that have military skills but no civilian ones do that.
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Re: Zankaru cancels fun: dwarves on break
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2009, 06:19:20 am »
Quote from: DeathOfRats on August 07, 2009, 06:07:35 am
You're welcome! Did you check your peasants to see if they had an unhappy thought after being undrafted? Dwarves that have military skills but no civilian ones do that.

Out of curiosity, what is that thought?
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Re: Zankaru cancels fun: dwarves on break
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2009, 06:55:47 am »
"complained about the draft"
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Re: Zankaru cancels fun: dwarves on break
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2009, 07:25:31 am »
Isn't "Complained about the draft" the thought for non-military dwarves that get drafted? I'm not sure about the other one, I'll check when I'm at home.
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Re: Zankaru cancels fun: dwarves on break
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2009, 08:26:37 am »
Well he IS called FrickenMoron...
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Quote from: Sir Finkus on March 30, 2012, 03:08:24 pm
Santorum leaves a bad taste in my mouth

DeathOfRats

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Re: Zankaru cancels fun: dwarves on break
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2009, 11:38:51 am »
 ;D

I did some checking using my mad DC skillz to turn a woodcutter into an axeman, and the unhappy thought for the militaryman turned peasant is "was upset about being relieved from duty".
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