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SpiralDimentia

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Enemy of the State
« on: October 06, 2011, 05:55:25 pm »
For some strange reason, my brewer refuses to brew beer. This caused my fort to dip to 0 drinks without me noticing at first [it's still in it's infantile stages, just a mere 18 dwarves so far]. The farm as well as food stockpile are right by the still, and my stonecrafter just dropped off 20 rock pots, empty and ready to promote alcoholism... but he just won't do it. The labor is enabled and everything.

He was convicted of being a traitor and summarily executed, because my fisherdwarf [who hasn't done a damn thing so far] had no problem brewing beer when I told him to. He went right about giving us something to drink. My question, however, is what would cause this? Is there a reason one dwarf just wouldn't do something? He wasn't 'on break', he had 'No job'. He wasn't busy in the fields, and everything was available. I just wanna know what may have caused this so that in the future, elf spies and traitors can be weeded out sooner.
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OhNoItsNot

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Re: Enemy of the State
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2011, 06:01:16 pm »
MY question is how did you execute him?
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JDF117

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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2011, 06:03:20 pm »
  You may want to see if you accidentally assigned your dwarf to a barrow that didn't have the stills in it. Other than that IDK.
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SpiralDimentia

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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2011, 06:04:42 pm »
Quote from: OhNoItsNot on October 06, 2011, 06:01:16 pm
MY question is how did you execute him?

He 'walked the plank' [retractable drawbridge] over a very, very, very deep hole.
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khearn

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« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2011, 06:13:01 pm »
Disk he have the brewing labor turned on? Are you sure? A little hard to check now, so it's going to be pretty hard to debug.
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SpiralDimentia

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Re: Enemy of the State
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2011, 06:19:14 pm »
Quote from: SpiralDimentia on October 06, 2011, 05:55:25 pm
The labor is enabled and everything.

Yes, he had it enabled. I was very thorough before deciding to off an alcohol magician.
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chris_v

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Re: Enemy of the State
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2011, 06:40:57 pm »
Did you remember to set your plump helmets (or other plants) to brew in the kitchen screen?
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Re: Enemy of the State
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2011, 06:41:27 pm »
By any chance did the Still's building material get forbidden?
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SpiralDimentia

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Re: Enemy of the State
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2011, 06:57:19 pm »
Didn't use burrows until I killed him, plump helmets are used only for brewing, and I did not forbid the still. Like I said, the fisherdwarf had no problems picking up the brewer's slack once I turned it on for him.

I think he just tried to go on strike. Silly dissention.
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« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2011, 05:42:08 am »
Maybe... maybe he wanted to promote abstinence...

BURN THIS FORT DOWN NOW! It has been touched by the hand of evil!!!
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Re: Enemy of the State
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2011, 06:51:58 am »
Dumb question but did he have access to the still? As in no pathing restrictions or stuck in a restricted area? Cut away from the still perhaps?
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Endiqua

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« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2011, 07:05:05 am »
Just out of curiosity, did you check his personality?  Maybe he was just lazy and unmotivated.
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