I found the solution for the crossbow bug :D "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. " Tested and working fine for now
I was researching this, apparently the bug is when a new squad is created, the "number of assigned bolts" (which was previously modifiable in the free version) is set based upon the uniform selected at squad-creation time. If an uniform with ranged weapon is selected, some number bolts will be assigned. If a uniform with melee weapon is selected, number of assigned bolts is zero. When a uniform is CHANGED, the number of assigned bolts does not get updated, so if you started with melee, you're stuck at zero bolts. I haven't tested this, but if you start with ranged, and change to melee, they should still carry bolts?
For the high boots: you are probably wearing some kind of incompatible armor pieces. What I do for my dwarves is: helm, chain mail, cloak, breastplate, gauntlets, greaves, high boots. No clothing pieces except cloak
You have "wear armor over clothes" on and the dwarves are trying to put the boots on over their existing shoes, which is impossible. I am not kidding, this is a confirmed bug
Biggest issue with crossbows to me at the moment is how happy Marksdwarves are to run out of arrows and then jump off a wall/fortification in order to crossbow-butt their enemies, and then just die. I don't remember this being an issue previously, and marksdwarves were great. I do remember they being very buggy when the military screen first got released (military overhaul), but it didn't take long to fix. Right now it feels like the buggy state it was back then. Thanks for the vids, keep'em coming!
I never give my Marksdwarves the freedom to do dumb shit. I put them in a sealed tower overlooking the killing ground. Floor-to-ceiling walls with fortifications carved in. Access from the z-level above. 1 square wide so they can shoot out both sides, nowhere to run except up to safety. The only thing you have to watch out for is legendary elvish archers. They can shoot through fortifications from a distance. Normally archers have to be directly adjacent to fortifications to shoot through them, but legendary marksmen don't.
For weapons, mining picks are very effective, and use the mining skill as their weapon skill. Mining is one of the easiest skills to raise since you an just have your military dwarves dig continuously during their off-time. I pretty much use all picks for my military.
ohhh, didn't know about this one :D Thank you so much for writing this comment : ) mining through comments, I keep digging up gold nuggets like this :D
This is great advice! One thing worth adding is that their currently equipped pick isn't part of their military uniform, so they'll drop it when given an order.
Thank you. I'd love to see one of your playthroughs of DF Steam, think I could learn a helluva lot from you. Please consider making a Dwarf Fortress (Steam) Let's Play series
Okay, the 'Always Equipped' thing is a good one. I might do that for my mining dwarves and logging dwarves . . . just always have at least a little bit of armor on.
I've not tested it but I've heard there can be some strangeness with mining, logging and hunting Dwarves. They use hidden "uniforms" to equip their job items and it can prevent them equipping their full military garb.
They will refuse to use their job pick/chrossbow/axe and instead run to find a replacement when ordered to fight. Best practice is to never use them in your army. Even if your woodcutter is a legendary axedwarf and your hunter is a skilled marksdwarf, it won't be worth it until Toady fixes it
Make sure if you want you're troop to wear armour always, that you don't let them do mining, woodcutting and hunting, those job have "phantom" equipment (such as needing to use axe, pick and ranged weapon) that mess up you're equipment setup 👍👍👍
About the food bug, I'm exploring the idea of creating a food stockpile that covers all my bedrooms, setting it to send to the main food stockpile and not allowing it to receive food or barrels/bins from anywhere. Haven't had the chance to really put it to the test, but in theory it should stop the majority of food dwarves bring into their rooms from rotting, and maybe, just maybe, they'll take that food to the main stockpile? One can dream.
you know what... If its a choice of waiting another 2 years or having a slightly buggy game without adventure mode... I like that I can play it now and enjoy what is working :D
the backpack equipping is a problem I have right now. I was looking for an answer and couldn't find one. My militia commander kept leaving cheese in his room.
My archers train with crossbows if they have nothing else to do, and the hunters use them for hunting, and they seem to work fine in battle. Also the issue with the backpacks doesn't affect me. I am having an issue with scrolls on the floor though
I find that is pretty usual. A mix of doing high value trading when the caravans come, being in a pretty safe area and easily accessible for my civ I guess.
When I try to assign the Militia Captain, there's only 15 dwarves showing (out of 49) and there's no scroll bar like you have. I can't choose the dwarf I want to assign. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The guy I want has his office and room already too. 😔
Hey, Im having an issue that after a siege all items and corpses become forbidden, if I dont have the "Forbid during siege" people will go out and loot before the fight is over and if it is turned on everything becomes forbidden even when the siege has ended.
I have a question regarding equipment. I produced gauntlets but my dwafs wont wear them (and one dwarf wont wear a helm as well), although it is highlighted yellow in the equipment menu of the dwarfs (and it is included in their equipment list), pressing "update equipment" doesnt help as well. Is it a bug? Or what is the difference between no equipment, highlighted red and the one, highlighted yellow in the list of theit equipment?
Yellow usually means they own some but aren't wearing it atm. You can try setting the uniform to replace clothing as maybe they have something taking up that slot.
To breed you just need a male and some females in the same pasture. I like starting with 1 male and 2 females. Once they get started they're hard to stop! That dog corridor was something else too! It was full of hunting dogs that detected thieves coming in to steal my artifacts, who'd then charge in and be torn to shreds. I also had a bear and a cougar in there. The funniest part is they always wanted my worst artifact - a ring with a picture of a carrot on it worth 1000.. Wild.
@@watermenlon3617 Nope not at all, the fortress from the video is currently only finished it's 4th year! That was the tutorial too so I didn't start with any male dogs. I think I got one in the first or second migrant wave and it went from there!
It's actually pretty easy for them to breed out of control. I have a 10 year fort that's totally overpopulated with grazing animals. Cows, reindeer, yak and even elephant
Wait, the crossbows being bad. is that why my hunters take 5 or 6 stacks of bolts to kill one boar? It feels like it would be better to have people hunt using their fists cause at least then there is a chance the thing is killed without having to wait a day or two for either the same hunter or another one to come by and finish it off
I think that's just them having poor marksdwarfship skill. You can try assigning them hunting/war dogs and then the dogs will end up killing whatever they aggro.
If you don't use a backpack, your dwarves will run back to base to eat all the time when you have them set to patrol or station. Instead, make sure they have a chest to put their food in.
I get around that by never using patrol or station,if you check the happiness video you can see that these days I have them inside the tavern all the time. I only bother with those if I'm doing a raiding/world domination challenge and need them to avoid cave adaption, but even then with good fort design food should never be far from them.
I found the solution for the crossbow bug :D
"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. "
Tested and working fine for now
Oh wow, good find! Thanks so much for the tip!
I was researching this, apparently the bug is when a new squad is created, the "number of assigned bolts" (which was previously modifiable in the free version) is set based upon the uniform selected at squad-creation time. If an uniform with ranged weapon is selected, some number bolts will be assigned. If a uniform with melee weapon is selected, number of assigned bolts is zero. When a uniform is CHANGED, the number of assigned bolts does not get updated, so if you started with melee, you're stuck at zero bolts. I haven't tested this, but if you start with ranged, and change to melee, they should still carry bolts?
is this bug going to be fixed, and the backpack one, where do you report them
@Sabizos alsi the can't custom name dwarfs on embark is pretty huge
Thanks for confirming the bugs I was losing my mind! And there is boot issue too my dwarves don't want equiping high boots.
For the high boots: you are probably wearing some kind of incompatible armor pieces. What I do for my dwarves is: helm, chain mail, cloak, breastplate, gauntlets, greaves, high boots. No clothing pieces except cloak
I would read the wiki for info about armor and clothes.
You have "wear armor over clothes" on and the dwarves are trying to put the boots on over their existing shoes, which is impossible. I am not kidding, this is a confirmed bug
It is a bug I have been using a mod on steam workshop that fixes this problem
Damn your videos on DF are so helpful, keep up the great work
P.s could you make a food/meat tutorial?
These videos are perfect for the point of learning I am at right now. A bit advanced, but not too deep and also pretty quick. Thank you!
Biggest issue with crossbows to me at the moment is how happy Marksdwarves are to run out of arrows and then jump off a wall/fortification in order to crossbow-butt their enemies, and then just die. I don't remember this being an issue previously, and marksdwarves were great.
I do remember they being very buggy when the military screen first got released (military overhaul), but it didn't take long to fix. Right now it feels like the buggy state it was back then.
Thanks for the vids, keep'em coming!
thats honestly the funniest shit ever
I never give my Marksdwarves the freedom to do dumb shit. I put them in a sealed tower overlooking the killing ground. Floor-to-ceiling walls with fortifications carved in. Access from the z-level above. 1 square wide so they can shoot out both sides, nowhere to run except up to safety. The only thing you have to watch out for is legendary elvish archers. They can shoot through fortifications from a distance. Normally archers have to be directly adjacent to fortifications to shoot through them, but legendary marksmen don't.
Removing ammo interaction within the squad menus was a mistake in my opinion. Hopefully it gets patched soon!
For weapons, mining picks are very effective, and use the mining skill as their weapon skill. Mining is one of the easiest skills to raise since you an just have your military dwarves dig continuously during their off-time. I pretty much use all picks for my military.
ohhh, didn't know about this one :D
Thank you so much for writing this comment : )
mining through comments, I keep digging up gold nuggets like this :D
There are other important military skills other than the weapon mastery
This is great advice! One thing worth adding is that their currently equipped pick isn't part of their military uniform, so they'll drop it when given an order.
@@FurtherReadingTV I try to keep a stockpile for just picks near where I have them mining so they can quickly grab one again
Thank you. I'd love to see one of your playthroughs of DF Steam, think I could learn a helluva lot from you. Please consider making a Dwarf Fortress (Steam) Let's Play series
Let's Plays are something I don't have time for I'm afraid, but I stream regularly on Twitch! You can find me at www.twitch.tv/furtherreading
@@FurtherReadingTV Thank you, I'll check it out
Okay, the 'Always Equipped' thing is a good one. I might do that for my mining dwarves and logging dwarves . . . just always have at least a little bit of armor on.
I've not tested it but I've heard there can be some strangeness with mining, logging and hunting Dwarves. They use hidden "uniforms" to equip their job items and it can prevent them equipping their full military garb.
They will refuse to use their job pick/chrossbow/axe and instead run to find a replacement when ordered to fight. Best practice is to never use them in your army. Even if your woodcutter is a legendary axedwarf and your hunter is a skilled marksdwarf, it won't be worth it until Toady fixes it
@benclark6922 hmmm . . . What if I force them to use a pick or axe as part of their military uniform?
Make sure if you want you're troop to wear armour always, that you don't let them do mining, woodcutting and hunting, those job have "phantom" equipment (such as needing to use axe, pick and ranged weapon) that mess up you're equipment setup 👍👍👍
About the food bug, I'm exploring the idea of creating a food stockpile that covers all my bedrooms, setting it to send to the main food stockpile and not allowing it to receive food or barrels/bins from anywhere. Haven't had the chance to really put it to the test, but in theory it should stop the majority of food dwarves bring into their rooms from rotting, and maybe, just maybe, they'll take that food to the main stockpile? One can dream.
Thank you for the tips! Really helpful :)
you know what...
If its a choice of waiting another 2 years or having a slightly buggy game without adventure mode...
I like that I can play it now and enjoy what is working :D
@Sabizos XD yer, its worth it tho... would never get to play it otherwise XD
the backpack equipping is a problem I have right now. I was looking for an answer and couldn't find one. My militia commander kept leaving cheese in his room.
please do a tutorial about disposal and avoiding FPS death and crashes
looking forward to the Xbow and quiver fix!
Banning backpacks as a solution is too funny
Thank you. Huge help. Earned a sub!
Maybe a food guide?
That'll be my next video! I'm hoping to have it out on Monday
For the food problem: you can build a chest/coffer in the bedroom. Dwarves will store their food in them
They'll do this at first but they'll end up filling it up overtime and move on to using the floor.
@@FurtherReadingTV thank you, same thing happened to me.
The equipment tip is fantastic
My archers train with crossbows if they have nothing else to do, and the hunters use them for hunting, and they seem to work fine in battle. Also the issue with the backpacks doesn't affect me. I am having an issue with scrolls on the floor though
Extremely helpful. Thanks for the video. Also, how do you reach 100+ dwarves in only 4 years?
I find that is pretty usual. A mix of doing high value trading when the caravans come, being in a pretty safe area and easily accessible for my civ I guess.
From a watermelon to another... thanks dear melonfolk!
So helpful. Thank you.
When I try to assign the Militia Captain, there's only 15 dwarves showing (out of 49) and there's no scroll bar like you have. I can't choose the dwarf I want to assign. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The guy I want has his office and room already too. 😔
Hmm that's strange. Do you have any mods that might be impacting the UI? Also try using your mousewheel to scroll.
Why did you need to assign the a-mace-ing uniform to the leader *after* you confirmed he was already assigned it?
At that stage he was using it but not the squad. The second assignment was to give it to the whole squad.
your tips are the best of all ytbers dude
Hey, Im having an issue that after a siege all items and corpses become forbidden, if I dont have the "Forbid during siege" people will go out and loot before the fight is over and if it is turned on everything becomes forbidden even when the siege has ended.
I have a question regarding equipment. I produced gauntlets but my dwafs wont wear them (and one dwarf wont wear a helm as well), although it is highlighted yellow in the equipment menu of the dwarfs (and it is included in their equipment list), pressing "update equipment" doesnt help as well. Is it a bug? Or what is the difference between no equipment, highlighted red and the one, highlighted yellow in the list of theit equipment?
Yellow usually means they own some but aren't wearing it atm. You can try setting the uniform to replace clothing as maybe they have something taking up that slot.
@@FurtherReadingTV Thanks! I will try it
If you give out quivers, then the dwarf crossbowman will go to fill it. And without a quiver, he only has 1-2 Bolts
Right now there is a bug where if a squad's uniform is updated they'll drop their ammo and won't pick up more, that's the bug I am referring to.
wish i watched this before buying it last night. so many bugs! half the video was mitigating bugs, and i appreciate your effort to help this cool game
Great vids ! Can we get a whole guide for beginners ? Especially early game.
Good stuff thanks for the tips.
Nice ones thanks!
how the heck did you get so many dogs?? how did you breed them or how do you breed animals in general???
To breed you just need a male and some females in the same pasture. I like starting with 1 male and 2 females. Once they get started they're hard to stop!
That dog corridor was something else too! It was full of hunting dogs that detected thieves coming in to steal my artifacts, who'd then charge in and be torn to shreds. I also had a bear and a cougar in there. The funniest part is they always wanted my worst artifact - a ring with a picture of a carrot on it worth 1000.. Wild.
@@FurtherReadingTV that must took a lot of years breeding, does it take that long? I want that dog army to guard my base as well from those thieves
@@watermenlon3617 Nope not at all, the fortress from the video is currently only finished it's 4th year! That was the tutorial too so I didn't start with any male dogs. I think I got one in the first or second migrant wave and it went from there!
And don't get us started on cat explosions...
It's actually pretty easy for them to breed out of control. I have a 10 year fort that's totally overpopulated with grazing animals. Cows, reindeer, yak and even elephant
Wait, the crossbows being bad. is that why my hunters take 5 or 6 stacks of bolts to kill one boar? It feels like it would be better to have people hunt using their fists cause at least then there is a chance the thing is killed without having to wait a day or two for either the same hunter or another one to come by and finish it off
I think that's just them having poor marksdwarfship skill. You can try assigning them hunting/war dogs and then the dogs will end up killing whatever they aggro.
The more (wood) bolts hunters use the more training they get. Shooting at moving targets is good exp. Better than archery target practice.
Try using metal bolts. I found that wood bolts only battered and bruised enemies, but metal bolts rip and tear.
Forbidding and unforbbidng food doesn't clear ownership?
Nope! There's a way to do it with dfhack but that won't be here till mid January.
@@FurtherReadingTV Yea, im waiting for DFhack to script stockpile defragmenting :)
Thank you, really helpfull
wow thats a lot of dogs
If you don't use a backpack, your dwarves will run back to base to eat all the time when you have them set to patrol or station. Instead, make sure they have a chest to put their food in.
I get around that by never using patrol or station,if you check the happiness video you can see that these days I have them inside the tavern all the time. I only bother with those if I'm doing a raiding/world domination challenge and need them to avoid cave adaption, but even then with good fort design food should never be far from them.
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Toki you stops copies me.
Dwarven military tip of the day: Don't. See you next time!
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