New game and dwarves refuse to mine

[Jim the Gardener]

Decided to load up a new game after a long hiatus and the first game I start to play, the dwarves absolutely refuse to mine a single thing. Everyone has mining orders per basic start, we have the picks, the side of the mountain is just loam so its fine. They wont even mine the stone walls. Wtf is happening?

[Esca]

To be clear, did you add them all to the "Miners" work detail in the Labor menu? If so, did you make them lumberjacks or hunters too? Those 3 labors conflict with each other due to the way tools/weapons work, so they can only have one at a time.

[Jim the Gardener]

Originally posted by Esca:

To be clear, did you add them all to the "Miners" work detail in the Labor menu? If so, did you make them lumberjacks or hunters too? Those 3 labors conflict with each other due to the way tools/weapons work, so they can only have one at a time.

Yes everyone is set to miner.

Set no hunters. The lumberjacks did their job fine. Let everyone set idle for 20 minutes waiting for anyone to mine. No one mines. Game is bugged.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Zamboni Jones:

Originally posted by Esca:

To be clear, did you add them all to the "Miners" work detail in the Labor menu? If so, did you make them lumberjacks or hunters too? Those 3 labors conflict with each other due to the way tools/weapons work, so they can only have one at a time.

Yes everyone is set to miner.

Set no hunters. The lumberjacks did their job fine. Let everyone set idle for 20 minutes waiting for anyone to mine. No one mines. Game is bugged.

Your post is bugged. You say that everyone is set to miner, and then you say that you also have lumberjacks, after the other guy specifically told you that this causes problems...

[Lorins]

Maybe you spawned without pickaxes? It happened to me once and I had to restart.

[Jim the Gardener]

Originally posted by AlP:

Originally posted by Zamboni Jones:

Yes everyone is set to miner.

Set no hunters. The lumberjacks did their job fine. Let everyone set idle for 20 minutes waiting for anyone to mine. No one mines. Game is bugged.

Your post is bugged. You say that everyone is set to miner, and then you say that you also have lumberjacks, after the other guy specifically told you that this causes problems...

I have never had this problem ever.

[Jim the Gardener]

Originally posted by Lorins:

Maybe you spawned without pickaxes? It happened to me once and I had to restart.

I have pick axes.

[Jim the Gardener]

I feel like this game is still early access.

[DoubleG]

When you say long hiatus was it one of hte previous versions you played? If so the new labour system can be confusing. Have you been messing around with the labours. It should work straight away with no fiddling....

[Jim the Gardener]

Originally posted by DoubleG:

When you say long hiatus was it one of hte previous versions you played? If so the new labour system can be confusing. Have you been messing around with the labours. It should work straight away with no fiddling....

Probably haven't played since Feb. I loaded a new game and set up like I normally do and they just sit there. I even removed the miners and woodcutters like homboy said up top but that didnt work because Im 90% certain thats not a thing.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Zamboni Jones:

Im 90% certain thats not a thing.

That's 100% a thing, homeboy, those professions have a hidden uniform that interferes with each other and military assignments, bro.

[Jim the Gardener]

Originally posted by AlP:

Originally posted by Zamboni Jones:

Im 90% certain thats not a thing.

That's 100% a thing, homeboy, those professions have a hidden uniform that interferes with each other and military assignments, bro.

Well thats incredibly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying and 100% stupid if true. Ill go back to other city builders then. It used to work perfectly fine before. I got my 50 hrs in. They need to overhaul this game with some massive qol. Even the workers who didnt have a profession but mining didn't even mine btw. So yeah...

[DoubleG]

Your miners need to be ONLY miners, not woodcutters or hunters or in the military. Same goes for all of them. They all have a uniform (even if its invisible to you), so cannot wear two uniforms.

It might work occasionally until there's some sort of conflict. Perhaps you suddenly got a bunch a crossbows the miners are trying to put on. MAybe they're all stuck in loop trying to grab the axe to chop trees and a pick to mine rock. Not sure what they do with those sorts of conflicts. Perhaps freeze in place and refuse to mine anymore....

The first three labours on the labour screen need to be specialists. Those are the only labours that cannot be changed to "Everyone do this".

[Jim the Gardener]

Originally posted by DoubleG:

Your miners need to be ONLY miners, not woodcutters or hunters or in the military. Same goes for all of them. They all have a uniform (even if its invisible to you), so cannot wear two uniforms.

It might work occasionally until there's some sort of conflict. Perhaps you suddenly got a bunch a crossbows the miners are trying to put on. MAybe they're all stuck in loop trying to grab the axe to chop trees and a pick to mine rock. Not sure what they do with those sorts of conflicts. Perhaps freeze in place and refuse to mine anymore....

The first three labours on the labour screen need to be specialists. Those are the only labours that cannot be changed to "Everyone do this".

This must be a new thing, because it never used to be like this and I have multiple save files to prove that I have miners that do multiple tasks. The only reason I started a new game was out of boredom from my old fortress.

But what I think most of what yall are missing, is that I have miners that are legit only set to mine, and they do not mine. Like this entire load is 100% bugged because they will do every other task except mine.

I digress. Game is getting uninstalled finally. It's all good. I wanted to give it one last shot.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Zamboni Jones:

Originally posted by AlP:

That's 100% a thing, homeboy, those professions have a hidden uniform that interferes with each other and military assignments, bro.

Well thats incredibly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying and 100% stupid if true. Ill go back to other city builders then. It used to work perfectly fine before. I got my 50 hrs in. They need to overhaul this game with some massive qol. Even the workers who didnt have a profession but mining didn't even mine btw. So yeah...

It never used to work fine in the entire history of the game. Which is 20 years or so.

[AlP]

Originally posted by Zamboni Jones:

But what I think most of what yall are missing, is that I have miners that are legit only set to mine, and they do not mine. Like this entire load is 100% bugged because they will do every other task except mine.

You probably did something else wrong, in addition to mixing incompatible labor assignments. It's hard to tell exactly what without additional details.