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Author Topic: Urist McDwarf(s) cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Job Item misplaced x infinity.  (Read 1687 times)

Dwarfotaur

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Urist McDwarf(s) cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Job Item misplaced x infinity.
« on: February 12, 2011, 04:13:34 pm »
I'm getting this spamming my log and I've also noticed a huge drop in FPS and lots of freezing/stuttering. What the hell have they all misplaced so badly? Every dwarf seems to be complaining about this. It's really annoying as I'm missing important announcements (A miner died and I have no clue how now!).
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Re: Urist McDwarf(s) cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Job Item misplaced x infinity.
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2011, 04:19:06 pm »
You can tweak this in the DF/init/announcements/txt file, change what gets shown and what doesn't.  Or turn job cancels off entirely vie o - x menu in-game.

It's likely something lame, like someone went to store food at the same time someone decided to eat it, or store a stone that someone wanted to make a coffin with.  It means, vaguely "I thought the item was here and now it's not." for whatever reason.
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Re: Urist McDwarf(s) cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Job Item misplaced x infinity.
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2011, 04:44:45 pm »
I'm getting it like 10 times a second. The log is going crazy.
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Re: Urist McDwarf(s) cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Job Item misplaced x infinity.
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2011, 03:33:04 pm »
Did you bury all of your dead dwarves? You may have a poltergeist.

I was pitting a bunch of migrants, and I had several dozen ghosts running amok. I was also getting the misplaced item spam like crazy. I finally buried all of the corpses and put all of the ghosts to rest. (It took 90+ coffins), and the misplaced item spam ended. It seemed to begin again once I pitted the next batch of 20+ migrants (and they rose), and then ended again when I buried them.

Check out the ghost entry on the wiki. Secretive poltergeists hide/move items. I think the "misplaced item" spam is the result. The game "hides" the item from the dwarf, resulting in a job cancellation due to the dwarf being unable to find the item.

One more thing, I didn't see an entry on the unit list for a poltergeist, just forlorn, restless, and murderous haunts. I don't think poltergeists show up on the unit list.
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Re: Urist McDwarf(s) cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Job Item misplaced x infinity.
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2011, 03:34:15 pm »
This happens to me a lot with burrows.  A dwarf wants to store an item in a stockpile, but either the item or the stockpile is not in the burrow, so he cancels the job ... then does it again and again forever.
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Re: Urist McDwarf(s) cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Job Item misplaced x infinity.
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2011, 05:11:02 pm »
Quote from: Dwarfotaur on February 12, 2011, 04:44:45 pm
I'm getting it like 10 times a second. The log is going crazy.

Pause. Hit 'j'. Find "Store Item in Stockpile" on the jobs list. Hit 'v' on that job. This will tell you what the item is.
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