[BUG] Archers don't pick up bolts.

[EkemRoht]

Dwarves do not bring ammunition in the chests in the barracks.
Tried all the options suggested on the forum and the problem persists to this day.

[Goldark]

Usually fired prjectile are automatically forbidden so the haulers don't try to pick them up during a battle. You have to manually remove the forbidden status ( on the right of the bottom menu bar)

[ARYO]

you can fix this in one of 2 ways: go into the labour menu and select the category that is about seiges and you will be able to designate fired ammo as collectable always, after sieges or never. you might not want to constantly change this so you can also go into your stock menu and check ammo, wherein you can mass unforbid whole ammo types (fired or not) by just turning forbid (the lock icon) on and off again

[EkemRoht]

Originally posted by Goldark:

Usually fired prjectile are automatically forbidden so the haulers don't try to pick them up during a battle. You have to manually remove the forbidden status ( on the right of the bottom menu bar)

It's about archers not taking them from stockpiles.
I am know about shot bolts being forbidden to be picked up.

[EkemRoht]

My friend and I spent several hours yesterday trying to resolve this bug.
If a squad's assigned uniform has been changed, archers stop picking up bolts.
You can create a new squad and assign custom uniforms created earlier. Archers will equip the bolts.
But if you change the standard uniforms or change assigned custom uniforms, they will stop. We'll have to recreate the squad again.

[Otterking]

There's a bug with uniforms. I couldn't get my archers to equip ammo unless I select the archer uniform when I first create the squad.

[EkemRoht]

Originally posted by Vlood:

There's a bug with uniforms. I couldn't get my archers to equip ammo unless I select the archer uniform when I first create the squad.

As I found out yesterday the first time you create a squad it is not necessary to choose the default form of archers. You can choose any custom archer form you've created before. And it will work, but if you change anything, you'll have to recreate the squad all over again.

[EkemRoht]

It's still a bug, but at least we can keep playing with it)

[redacted]

Originally posted by EkemRoht:

My friend and I spent several hours yesterday trying to resolve this bug.
If a squad's assigned uniform has been changed, archers stop picking up bolts.
You can create a new squad and assign custom uniforms created earlier. Archers will equip the bolts.
But if you change the standard uniforms or change assigned custom uniforms, they will stop. We'll have to recreate the squad again.

Thanks for this work-around, this is the only response I've seen to make marksdwarves usable in a squad so far. Really frustrating to bug to have present in this version of the game.

[proctorsilex]

Originally posted by Higgs Bonbon:

[FEATURE]
Bolts are automatically forbidden so dwarves aren't running into dangerous situations to collect them.

You can at least change this in the game options if desired

[Kover]

i have this bug too

[EkemRoht]

Originally posted by Andy:

Thanks for this work-around, this is the only response I've seen to make marksdwarves usable in a squad so far. Really frustrating to bug to have present in this version of the game.

Glad to hear it's working for you. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next patch.

[FlyinJ]

Thank you for this post! I can finally get my dwarves to pick up bolts. Unfortunately if you try to get any archers to equip different armor or anything it will break and they will drop their bolts and never pick them up again unless you disband the squad then make it again with the archer uniform.

This makes it so my archers will not wear any armor at all if I don't have specifically what the archer uniform is set to

[DoubleBizzy]

Originally posted by Vlood:

There's a bug with uniforms. I couldn't get my archers to equip ammo unless I select the archer uniform when I first create the squad.

There's also some kind of bug with when the bolts were made. Started a new game and having tons of trouble. Quickly threw up a craft shop and made some wood bolts, now Urist is practicing with the wood ones instead of the metal ones we brought.

[Snuffick]

almost a year with no fix?

[EkemRoht]

Originally posted by Snuffick:

almost a year with no fix?

Didn't see that mentioned in the fixes. As far as I know, it still hasn't.