Dear fellow overseer,
I can't help but notice some issues you have.
A. Ammo is an issue that dwarves have especially when combined with
B. Uniform issues. Hunters have a uniform (leather armor, crossbow, quiver, bolts), and militiadwarves have a uniform (varies). Dwarves can only wear one uniform at a time.
C. Dwarves may not realize they can't eat ogres until they've killed them, and they don't think that they're a danger until it's too late, AND it's possible that something else was attracting the dwarves.
Yeah, I've been using a number of the workarounds to get them to reload, like moving them off the walls briefly to wake 'em up and resupply, things like that. Regarding the uniforms, I'd recently started separating hunting and marksdwarving so that might be why I'm having less uniform issues, since they're not allowed to hunt anymore. I use dedicated hunters for that.
The ogre wasn't what they were after, but the 3 of 'em hanging around the locked door to the caverns were going to slaughter them. The problem was I'd only exposed a portion of the cavern but they could see something tasty, so I was getting a billion messages of 'can't find path'... though I got those even with the door unlocked too until I was finally able to map the cavern.
Hm...How reasonable would it be for dwarves to add blades to the sides of a crossbow to make a crude axe?
Sounds wonderfully dwarfy to me.
Babies don't drain resources (I think that dwarven ladies put their babies on their heads when they can't carry them), and children do such useful tasks as hauling and harvesting plants. If you feel like cheating, you can use DT to assign the kids more labors. Killing kids leads to tantrum spirals. Tantrum spirals lead to destruction. Destruction leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Well, yes and no. The babies eventually become kids for 10 years who try to eat and drink me out of house and home, but that's not really the huge issue. I've got TONS of food and booze. My biggest complaint about these infants is I'm constantly spammed with messages of 'seeking infant' because they refuse to crib the little brats, and I've got a ton of hauling that needs doing and the kids really aren't helping out much, if any.
However, if I was going to assist these children into oblivion, I've got two pet Forgotten Beasts in the first cavern. Infant, mother, father, aunt, third cousin twice removed... EVERYBODY gets to go see the exhibit.
They can go made in white linen trying to wrestle a pair of FBs.
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Topic: Note to Urist--In which you express your frustration to your dwarves (Read 1553293 times)