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Derakon

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Soldier doing nothing
« on: March 23, 2008, 01:05:00 pm »

I have a soldier sitting at the entrance to my fort, where he was when we finished off the last goblin ambushes. He has two yellow arm injuries but no others (and yes, I checked for scrolling on the injury list), and seems disinclined to go anywhere. His squad is not on duty, and I've tried deactivating him, and reactivating him. His icon has a yellow background and regularly flashes white; I don't know what that means.

I've stuck the save up here (22MB compressed). Any ideas what's wrong with him?

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numerobis

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Re: Soldier doing nothing
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2008, 01:59:00 pm »

Flashing white means wounded.

He's probably waiting to be rescued?

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Derakon

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Re: Soldier doing nothing
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2008, 02:00:00 pm »

Then they're taking their sweet time about it.

I noticed that my other injured dwarf (got a leg mangled while trying to wrestle a hammergoblin) is just sitting on a bed with Soldier/No Job listed, depending on if he's activated or not. Shouldn't he be Resting in either case?

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Re: Soldier doing nothing
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2008, 02:17:00 pm »

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Originally posted by Derakon:
<STRONG>Then they're taking their sweet time about it.

I noticed that my other injured dwarf (got a leg mangled while trying to wrestle a hammergoblin) is just sitting on a bed with Soldier/No Job listed, depending on if he's activated or not. Shouldn't he be Resting in either case?</STRONG>


There's a bug where a dwarf that falls unconscious wakes up to be "no job" or "soldier" rather than "rest."  A mangled limb is a painful limb, which leads to passing out.  The workaround is to destroy the bed and wait for the wounded to be re-rescued.  Repeatedly.  Eventually, the mangling will fall to broken, and then normal resting will take place.  Or, the dwarf will be ignored and die.

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Derakon

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Re: Soldier doing nothing
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2008, 02:19:00 pm »

Well, they did eventually drag the entryway dwarf to a bed, so I'm guessing he'll be okay. I'll try that remove-beds trick on the other one. Thanks.
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