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[Rondol]

Last time I checked (a few versions ago) they didn't seem to operate properly. Their failure however slipped my mind until I noticed Toady's comment on them in the change list. Anyways, the problem I had was that only one dwarf would use a firing range at a time. When I say that, I don't mean that one dwarf would stand in front of each target shooting, I mean that if I had a firing range consisting of four or five targets, all included in the same room, only one dwarf would practice at a time. I had to set them all to have their own rooms to get dwarves to use the things.

Also, bolts don't stop at them. I put a target outside, and quickly had a row of spent bolts waaaay off on the edge of the map. Could it be possible to collect and repair spent crossbow bolts?

[Wooty]

Each archery target needs a seperate room. And currently, there is no way to reclaim used bolts from targets or the ground - you can only reuse them if they get stuck in an enemy. If you do get a bolt out of an enemy, the dwarf will carry that single bolt around instead of the normal 25 (stacking doesnt work...)

[JoRo]

You can exploit channels to reuse bolts, there was a thread around here somewhere.  You build a channel behind the target, and a wall behind the channel.  The bolts hit the wall and fall into the channel.  The downside is you have lots and lots of singleton bolts after a while of this.

[Scotty]

odd i've had marksdwarves use the targets and almost every time another dwarf automatically walks into the range and collects the used bolts.

amusingly a dwarf will do this while the marksdwarf is firing, it's a wonder there hasn't been any injuries/deaths from this

[Wooty]

They're not gathering bolts, they're cleaning up broken ones. And currently accidents dont happen at archery ranges.