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[ElGreco]

I was hitting my head on the wall for days. My dwarves just would not spar. I tried everything, read every thread on every possible forum. In vain.

Finally I realized that designating an Armory/Barracks from an armor stand is not the same thing as deignating a bedroom from a bed and activating the Barracks option... The former does not work for sparring, only the latter.

[ed boy]

I did not know this. Thank you.

[Quietust]

Er, no. My last 2 forts had 2 barracks - one designated from a weapon rack, and one designated from an armor stand. Both worked well enough to train several squads of dwarves to Legendary. Also, once the Economy activated, civilian dwarves would occasionally decide to go into the barracks and sleep on the floor - no unhappy thoughts, either.

[ElGreco]

I won't argue if you are right or wrong. I just share my personal experience and want to be helpful. My recruits began sparring the VERY SAME moment I designated the room from the bed. I had 5 recruits at that moment.

Now that I think of it, I had designated the room as "Armory/Barracks" before drafting my first recruit (he was a peasant). Maybe it has to do something with that.

[Sphalerite]

I have repeatedly designated a barracks from a weapon stand or armor rack and had dwarves spar in it.  It works.  Your problem was caused by something else.

[Innominate]

At least one of my forts has no barracks designated from beds and one from a weapon rack and sparring occurs as expected. Similarly, at least one of my forts has the opposite situation.

[blue emu]

I have never used the "Bed" method of setting up a Barracks, so I don't know how it works... but Weapon Racks and Armor Stands work fine for me.

[darkflagrance]

More likely, the available area on which the dwarves could spar from the armor rack was too small.

[Supercharazad]

I was hitting my head on the wall for days. My dwarves just would not spar. I tried everything, read every thread on every possible forum. In vain.

Finally I realized that designating an Armory/Barracks from an armor stand is not the same thing as deignating a bedroom from a bed and activating the Barracks option... The former does not work for sparring, only the latter.

They both work for me too, you have some problem other than wrong designation

[KenboCalrissian]

Are you sure your recruits were off-duty at the time?  I always start with a bed barracks for the first year, and then by the second have an armory barracks yard surrounded by walls designated outside.  Works fine for me.