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[flamewolf393]

Just all of a sudden, they refuse to go cut any wood. They will still do other jobs, including gathering plants, but if I try to get them to chop wood they just stand in their rooms with "no job".

[Garath]

did you change designations lately? do they have axes?

did you build anything lately that might limit their acces?
locked doors, raise bridges, walls?

[flamewolf393]

Nothing changed, they finished one plot of trees, so I told them to go chop another set of trees and they wont. I need the wood so I can build barrels so I can brew some drink so I can get some seeds so I can plant some surface crops so I can feed my dwarves.

I have nothing in their way, and I know they have axes unless they decided to randomly drop them or give them to someone else.

[Quietust]

Are any burrow restrictions in effect?

[GoldenShadow]

press (o)rders then gather (w)ood

[Quietust]

press (o)rders then gather (w)ood

That only affects hauling the freshly cut logs - it won't stop them from cutting down additional trees.

[Garath]

press v and check what they are doing. If thats not what you did, that is. the therapist will show dwarfs on break as no job. Maybe they dont feel like woodcutting for an hour or two?

[flamewolf393]

I have figured out the problem, but I dont know how to solve it. For some reason my woodcutters have decided to carry around some crossbows and put the axes into storage! How do I make them go get the axes back?

[flamewolf393]

press v and check what they are doing. If thats not what you did, that is. the therapist will show dwarfs on break as no job. Maybe they dont feel like woodcutting for an hour or two?

For me it always says the difference between no job and on break. No job is yellow and on break is blue.

[GoldenShadow]

Do they have hunting labor? I think they have conflicting uniforms.

[sambojin]

#1 Make sure they're not in the military. It causes a uniform conflict (most of the time). Damn it I wish woodcutters at least wore cloaks. It's sunny and rainy and sometimes freezing out there.

#2 Make sure they don't have mining or hunting labors enabled. Again, a uniform conflict. No crossbow wielding, pick swinging, axe cuddling woodcutters unfortunately. They don't wear cloaks either.....

#3 Pause, turn off ALL labors for your woodcutters (including woodcutting). Unpause. Wait 10-30 seconds (preferably until they mooch their way to the dining room). Then turn woodcutting back on. Dwarves are dumb enough that sometimes they need to be told not to do anything before being told to do something.

#4 Make sure you really have designated the trees for cutting. Sometimes it's easy to designate things improperly. Plants, woods, mining, pants. Damn dwarves and their booze. Oh, and me too.

#5 Make sure you don't have burrows enabled. At all. Ever. They cause more problems than they solve. Dwarves don't need burrows, they have a fort. Especially woodcutters. They have the ground to sleep on. Outside the fort. Without a cloak.

Other than that, I'm stumped.

[Garath]

mining and wood cutting cant be active at the same time, never tried hunting, but i imagine the same... if not, they would prefer to be hunting i guess, more fun, but cant decide between duty and fun.

are they part of a marksdwarf squad? that could also screw things around, specially if they keep uniform when inactive

[Quietust]

#5 Make sure you don't have burrows enabled. At all. Ever. They cause more problems than they solve.

I strongly disagree - it doesn't take that long to figure them out, and properly configured burrows can vastly simplify fortress management.