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[Areyar]

largely a problem with large constructions and digs that take quite a while to excavate.

At some point dig/smooth designations are ignored by my miners, but not removed.
New designations are dug/built as soon as designated.

I suspect the 'dwarves stay inside' command as this causes jobs no longer accessable (topside) to be halted.

Being mostly underground, designations should not actually be halted by the 'stay inside' command, which makes me doubt my claim of that being the source of the bug.

Such paused designations should either be removed or get a similar 'halted' toggle as constructions have.

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Sorry about the vague description and doubly so if this is already known.
I'm using standard DF (38c).

[Toady One]

I don't quite understand.  Is the bug that if you designate a mining job outside, and a mining job underground, then do "stay inside", they won't do either job?  Does this reproduce with a simple test?

[Areyar]

ok. sorry to be unclear, it is rather puzzling.

I'll tell you what the situation is:

The fortress is several years old, no features have been found yet (except for the volcano), but we have a dungeonmaster.
Lately we have missed some caravans due to unwise fortification planning.
Several large projects are underway, an outdoors arena, a large vaulted underground cathedral and a second well.

The arena construction orders were halted as should be when I ordered all inside for a siege and could be reset to resume building.

The cathedral however got terribly delayed, as my smoothing designations were ignored, miners just hanging around, going off to dig only freshly designated areas.
undesignating and redesignating finally got the ceilings smoothed.
the well was completed years after designation similarly.

I'm not entirely sure it is the sieges that 'pause' the designations, I may have been confusing the halted arena construction with this designation problem.
I have been training my miners a bit too and they have been recruited during a siege at some point. hat could be a factor, but only to the tile they were planning to mine at that time, not the entire project.

reproducing the effect...I could undesignate everything, then designate a single tile, use the stayindide and watch the jobs.
or recruit the miners while they are going for a job, then release them.