Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress

oddbolt Jan 5, 2023 @ 9:50pm
Other military dwarves somehow ended up with someone elses named weapon/shield, wont use anything else now
As in title. I noticed one of my military dwarves was walking about naked and took me a while to figure out why. Turns out three separate other dwarves have been equipping his named shield and sword (not sure how as everyones set to always wear their military uniform) and now those specific dwarves won't choose any other weapons or shields unless I manually assign a specific weapon. Anyone else had this issue or managed to sort it out?
Last edited by oddbolt; Jan 5, 2023 @ 9:51pm
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harlequin_corps Jan 6, 2023 @ 1:28am 
Was he injured in the hospital at some point? Check to see if you have Partial Matches Ok, If so, at some point when he put it down, probably to pick up a pickaxe to mine, because they take off their entire uniform to go mining, the partial matches kicked in and someone else grabbed it. You can set exact items, but still use partial matches and it just looks for an item LIKE that item.
harlequin_corps Jan 6, 2023 @ 1:29am 
There is a process of ownership, usually an item is owned for a certain amount of time, a season or whatnot, After that it get's unowned and other people can see it.
oddbolt Jan 6, 2023 @ 1:46am 
I don't believe he was injured, I've not had any fights recently. I also make sure never to assign my military guys to any uniform related jobs. I did send his squad off on missions a few times though where they remained undetected aand came back with some stolen goods. I was messing with other squads, clicking update equipment a fair bit in between then. I had a look around the squads and random people were wearing other bits of armor he wanted to wear and he just straight up refused to change even after removing him from the squad and putting him back in. I forced him to wear some different clothing by specifically choosing them in a new uniform which he did, then set it back to the normal costume and he just got naked again. I also noticed he had a religious title as if he'd been set as a temple priest, but he wasn't.

The next thing I was going to try is making some new armor and see if that triggers him into changing what hes wearing, maybe like the archers not recognising arrows that weren't made after their squad was formed, but I'm taking a break for now cause I sat there for 2 hours trying to figure it out :sleepingsheep: Partial matches could work, I think I have everyone in my military set to exact right now.

Edit: forgot to mention I noticed multiple people in my military using named weapons that they definitely didn't name themselves, but no one had any negative thoughts about their weapons being missing. I assumed the original owners would never let go of their named weapons but they don't seem to care much about them in my fort
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Date Posted: Jan 5, 2023 @ 9:50pm
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