my hunter wont ever hunt anything

[Expert Peeb]

he has a crossbow and bolts and a quiver, but just wont ever leave the meeting area to actually hunt any of the capybaras outside the fort. what am i doing wrong?

[Kicks]

I am also having this problem

[graalGGTV]

Do you have a butcher's shop? I'm pretty sure they won't hunt if you don't. I'm not sure if there's any hunting bugs in the steam version, though

[love]

Go into the labor menu and create a new job that deals exclusively with hunting.
Assign him to it.
Make him butcher corpses too and he'll randomly hunt things on his own.

[Expert Peeb]

Originally posted by graalGGTV:

Do you have a butcher's shop? I'm pretty sure they won't hunt if you don't. I'm not sure if there's any hunting bugs in the steam version, though

i do have a butcher's shop. i tried creating a task there but he wont do it.

[Expert Peeb]

Originally posted by love:

Go into the labor menu and create a new job that deals exclusively with hunting.
Assign him to it.
Make him butcher corpses too and he'll randomly hunt things on his own.

i dont know what kind of black magic you have, but even though i had tried this before it did not work until just right now. thank you for your incantations.

[strikebackstudios]

Welcome to the world of obscure and long standing Dwarf Fortress bugs, many of which have existed for years (some since 2010) before the the steam release, but could not be bothered to be fixed for this cash grab release.

While you can try to figure out which one of the litany of bugs is causing this, so that you can come up with a janky work around, since the game doesn't actually tell you any information about why certain things are, or are not happening, or are or are not working, you really just get to sit there and smash your face on a wall while reading hundreds of wiki pages trying to figure it out.

[Expert Peeb]

Originally posted by strikebackstudios:

Welcome to the world of obscure and long standing Dwarf Fortress bugs, many of which have existed for years (some since 2010) before the the steam release, but could not be bothered to be fixed for this cash grab release.

While you can try to figure out which one of the litany of bugs is causing this, so that you can come up with a janky work around, since the game doesn't actually tell you any information about why certain things are, or are not happening, or are or are not working, you really just get to sit there and smash your face on a wall while reading hundreds of wiki pages trying to figure it out.

that's not a very nice thing to say about a game which is still to this day free.

[Kaasjan]

opio

Originally posted by Expert Peeb:

Originally posted by strikebackstudios:

Welcome to the world of obscure and long standing Dwarf Fortress bugs, many of which have existed for years (some since 2010) before the the steam release, but could not be bothered to be fixed for this cash grab release.

While you can try to figure out which one of the litany of bugs is causing this, so that you can come up with a janky work around, since the game doesn't actually tell you any information about why certain things are, or are not happening, or are or are not working, you really just get to sit there and smash your face on a wall while reading hundreds of wiki pages trying to figure it out.

that's not a very nice thing to say about a game which is still to this day free.

It's a buggy mess mate. Love the game to death though

[Murderer Drug Dealer]

Originally posted by Expert Peeb:

Originally posted by strikebackstudios:

Welcome to the world of obscure and long standing Dwarf Fortress bugs, many of which have existed for years (some since 2010) before the the steam release, but could not be bothered to be fixed for this cash grab release.

While you can try to figure out which one of the litany of bugs is causing this, so that you can come up with a janky work around, since the game doesn't actually tell you any information about why certain things are, or are not happening, or are or are not working, you really just get to sit there and smash your face on a wall while reading hundreds of wiki pages trying to figure it out.

that's not a very nice thing to say about a game which is still to this day free.

It's 30 dollars now :)

[Expert Peeb]

Originally posted by Halcyon Days:

Originally posted by Expert Peeb:

that's not a very nice thing to say about a game which is still to this day free.

It's 30 dollars now :)

thats weird it still shows up for free on bay12games

[love]

Originally posted by Expert Peeb:

Originally posted by love:

Go into the labor menu and create a new job that deals exclusively with hunting.
Assign him to it.
Make him butcher corpses too and he'll randomly hunt things on his own.

i dont know what kind of black magic you have, but even though i had tried this before it did not work until just right now. thank you for your incantations.

The non-Steam version will always be free.
The "drawback" is it has no mouse support and is limited to fanmade tilesets or classic ASCII graphics.

Still very fun if you're on a budget.

[Snoopicus]

Originally posted by love:

Originally posted by Expert Peeb:

i dont know what kind of black magic you have, but even though i had tried this before it did not work until just right now. thank you for your incantations.

:8bitheart:

The non-Steam version will always be free.
The "drawback" is it has no mouse support and is limited to fanmade tilesets or classic ASCII graphics.

Still very fun if you're on a budget.

The free version does have mouse support though?

[love]

Originally posted by Snoopicus:

Originally posted by love:

The non-Steam version will always be free.
The "drawback" is it has no mouse support and is limited to fanmade tilesets or classic ASCII graphics.

Still very fun if you're on a budget.

The free version does have mouse support though?

Huh, apparently I was wrong! Limited to these though.

Originally posted by Wiki:

Advanced world generation
Creature creation screen in the object testing arena
Sound menu
Local image export menu
Designations menu (but not sub-menus)
* You can also use the mouse to do designations, for example, clicking a tile to have it mined.
Burrows
Nobles screen
Military screen
Custom stockpile settings
Health screen (both individual and in the status screen)
Economic stone settings
"Move goods to Depot" screen