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[Gezol]

This is a weird one- probably related to some of the other issues with legendary dwarves. I had a legendary craftsdwarf go to make a farm plot, only when he got there, instead of actually making it, he would go to a square for a second, flash a red question mark, run to another one chosen seemingly at random, repeat ad nauseum. The general effect was reminiscent of a chicken with its head cut off.

This probably would have gone on forever if I hadn't suspended the construction and turned off that dwarf's farming skill. I reactivated the construction, and it was picked up by a legendary jeweler who did the exact same thing. Noticing a pattern at this point, I suspended the construction and turned off the jeweler's farming skill, reactivated construction, and this time it was picked up by a non-legendary dwarf who constructed the farm plot without any problem.

I have a save with the jeweler doing this, if it'll help any...

[Toady One]

Yeah, I think I tried to get one of these earlier, or I did and forgot.  It would be nice to see it happening, because it's strange and sounds very fixable.

As you might know (I have this on copy-paste now):

toadyone@bay12games.com
region#.sav + region# folder in some kind of zip/rar

[Rollory]

I have seen this too, with building road segments - a legendary guy was doing the same red-? dance.  

I was guessing it was because he was holding an artifact in one hand and needed both hands to do the work for some reason.

[Gezol]

I just sent the save. Prepare to be awed by my amazingly haphazard and poorly designed fortress. The farm plots are a good example of it, actually. I never did anything with floodgates or channels or any of that, it's just been Nile-style straight from the beginning...

[Toady One]

I've fixed this now.  There were some residuals from the artifact job that confused them as to their further responsibilities.