☼Bi-weekly DF Questions Thread☼

So I'm having a bit of a problem regarding DFHack's Auto Job Assignments.

Up until now it's made my life SO much easier, because managing the job assignments of dwarves is... well, a bit tedious. Yes, there's Dwarf Therapist, but I'd rather just automate the whole thing.

Emphasis on "up until now."

I started a new fort because my old one was boring me (besides, I wasn't in the best position- I had zero iron ores, including Goblinite, as I'd spawned away from goblins). I then proceed to run out of food. Whoops.

I go to butcher a yak, and then realize that I don't actually have a butchery, despite already carving out a room for it. Whoops.

I then have the dwarves build said butchery... and it doesn't get built. Not a soul is touching the build site... aparrently because DFHack thinks I don't need a butcher (or all of my current dwarves make terrible butchers, I'm not sure which) and has disabled it on ALL of my dwarves.

To add insult to injury, location strikes again, because my attempts to have my dwarves So I'm having a bit of a problem regarding DFHack's Auto Job Assignments.

Up until now it's made my life SO much easier.

Emphasis on "up until now."

I started a new fort because my old one was boring me (besides, I wasn't in the best position- I had zero iron ores, including Goblinite, as I'd spawned away from goblins). I then proceed to run out of food.

I go to butcher a yak, and then realize that I don't actually have a butchery, despite already carving out a room for it. Whoops.

I then build said butchery... and it doesn't get built. Not a soul is touching the build site... aparrently because DFHack thinks I don't need a butcher (or all of my current dwarves make terrible butchers, I'm not sure which) and has disabled it on ALL of my dwarves. (And yes, the same problem has befallen the fishery.)

To add insult to injury, location strikes again, because my attempts to gather plants have yeilded nothing. Which means that my dwarves are left hunting rats instead of building the butchery and slaughtering an otherwise-useless yak.

Is there any way to make Auto Job Assignment stop being such an ☼idiot☼, and give me a few butchers? Or will I have to shut down the game, turn it off, boot it back up, and do it myself?

/r/dwarffortress Thread