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Unassign Work Dogs
« on: January 28, 2011, 06:05:05 pm »
How do you go about unassigning an assigned war dog?
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Re: Unassign Work Dogs
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2011, 06:05:40 pm »
You don't.  Not even killing its owner will un-assign an assigned war dog.
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Re: Unassign Work Dogs
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2011, 06:06:21 pm »
Outstanding...
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Re: Unassign Work Dogs
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2011, 06:29:30 pm »
You can sorta-kinda preempt the issue by having the dwarf you want the animal assigned to be the one to train it. Trained animals tend to follow their trainer.
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Re: Unassign Work Dogs
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2011, 06:38:57 pm »
Quote from: Sphalerite on January 28, 2011, 06:05:40 pm
You don't.  Not even killing its owner will un-assign an assigned war dog.

And here I thought murder was a way to solve all problems in dwarf fortress except the inevitable tantrum spiral.
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Re: Unassign Work Dogs
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2011, 06:45:14 pm »
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 28, 2011, 06:38:57 pm
And here I thought murder was a way to solve all problems in dwarf fortress except the inevitable tantrum spiral.
No, murder solves all problems. Especially tantrum spirals.

My solution to this would be to murder the animal.
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Re: Unassign Work Dogs
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2011, 06:56:22 pm »
Magma, of course.  More of it.
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Re: Unassign Work Dogs
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2011, 07:01:27 pm »
Unassigned animals TEND to follow their trainer, yeah, but the war dogs in my last fort had other ideas. I was absolutely swimming in animals and wanted to cull my canine population a bit by letting war dogs "help" with siege defense. For three sieges in a row, the mutts who were normally perfectly fine with following their trainers around made themselves scarce just before the goblins hit the main entryway where the militia was stationed. I don't know if those were the most cowardly dogs I've ever had in DF, or simply the smartest. ;)

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Re: Unassign Work Dogs
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2011, 07:24:17 pm »
if the owner dies, I think it may be possible to reassign the dog, with the stocks menu, select the one that's assigned to the dead owner, and toggle slaughter on it, then toggle it back. Sometimes it becomes "available".

This also sometimes seems to work for pets of dead people.

Haven't had any in a recent game though, so not sure if it still happens in the current version.
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