0010982: Caravan Guards do not need to eat or drink

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0010982	Dwarf Fortress	Dwarf Mode -- Trade	public	2018-12-23 02:23	2018-12-23 11:05

Reporter	bluebird9281	Assigned To
Priority	low	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
OS	Windows 7 Home Premium
Product Version	0.44.12

Summary	0010982: Caravan Guards do not need to eat or drink
Description	some caravan guards(& diplomat guards) tend to stuck in a narrow path, if there are 2 of them wanting to path through each other. they just switch their position again and again, forever. Once a dwarven caravan came, and left without those bugged guards. And they came back next year, bringing more guards. Still the previous ones were alive, not drinking, eating, or even sleeping a second. If I demolish wall next to it, they get out of there and leave the map. I guess maybe they are trying to yield the path to the other.
Steps To Reproduce	Make a narrow path out of the fort. Wagons take a long way out, guards are stuck in the narrow path.
Additional Information	http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=14158 There are two dwarven guards in this state.(In B3, southwest of the trading depot) It is Summer and they've been there for almost 2 years. This is a savefile from another bug report : http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=10975 The game will crash soon, but anyway it shows what it should.
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Note

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2018-12-23 02:23	bluebird9281	New Issue
2018-12-23 11:05	Loci	Note Added: 0039045
2018-12-23 11:08	Loci	Relationship added	related to 0008845

Loci 2018-12-23 11:05 viewer ~0039045	Guards not eating/drinking is presumably an intentional abstraction to reduce the complexity/cost of guard AI. Creatures getting stuck creature-swapping in small hallways is 0008845.