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[bcd1024]

I've run into a very weird strange mood.

I recently slaughtered two goblin ambushes. After the ambushes I changed the alert back to "train" which is a 2 months on, one month off for each squad. One of my squad leaders, a High Master Thresher was possessed by unknown forces.

Instead of going to grab a workshop he goes outside to the location of the last goblin killed and, well, he's chilling. I have every workshop except quern/millstone, bowyer, siege, ashery, dyer, soap maker; I never had a strange mood need any of these.

The strange thing is that he's not hanging out in my meeting area, which is what happens when I don't have the right workshop.

What could be going on?

[Andeerz]

I have had a strange-mood-dwarf claim a bowyer's shop before...

[Urist Imiknorris]

What are his civilian skills?

If his highest is a metalsmithing skill or glassmaking and you have magma forges/glass furnaces, he wants a non-magma version.

If Bowyer is his highest skill, he wants a Bowyer's workshop.

[bcd1024]

What are his civilian skills?

If his highest is a metalsmithing skill or glassmaking and you have magma forges/glass furnaces, he wants a non-magma version.

If Bowyer is his highest skill, he wants a Bowyer's workshop.

High Master Thresher. He's also a dabbling Stone Crafter and a lot of fighting skills. Threshers work out of Farmer's workshops; I have those, kitchens, stills, etc.

What's up with him hanging out by the last kill, instead of the meeting area?

[Urist Imiknorris]

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Strange_mood#Skills_and_workshops

Also,

Moody dwarves will not claim workshops whose building materials have been forbidden. This is usually the result of mass-forbidding every piece of low-value rock in an attempt to ensure valuable artifacts. You can check whether a workshop's materials are forbidden with the items command: the building materials are at the top of the list and will be purple if forbidden, cyan if not.

[Fellhuhn]

Soldiers tend to go to the spot of their last order, regardless how old it is. I have marksmen who, after over a year, still venture to the last station position every now and then. The current military order system is something ... strange, to be polite.