View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0013401 | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Mode -- Jobs, Fishing | public | 2025-12-22 11:28 | 2025-12-22 11:29 |
| Reporter | Kaios | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | PC | OS | Windows | OS Version | Windows 11 Home |
| Product Version | 53.08 | ||||
| Summary | 0013401: Dwarf attempts initial fishing job in spite of danger | ||||
| Description | At the beginning of an embark, one of the labors automatically assigned is fisherdwarf. It appears to me that there is no way to prevent this labor from being assigned upon embark, and even when immediately removing the labor, there is no way to cancel the task to fish (so long as water exists in the map) other than waiting for the dwarf to either complete the attempt and move to another task or idle. This poses a problem, because this task assignment apparently causes the dwarf to focus solely on this task even at the detriment of their own life. For example, along the path to where the fisherdwarf is moving there is a megabeast. Rather than run away at the sight of said megabeast, the dwarf is more focused on going to fish and strolls right along next to it. Of course what follows is their demise, though they do attempt to run away once they are engaged. I confirmed this multiple times in a fortress save that contained a Hydra upon embark. Always the same result. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | There aren't really any steps required to reproduce, other than it being necessary to have some sort of aggressive danger that should typically cause a dwarf to run away in fear (especially when they haven't built up any tolerance to such things, whether or not they are performing a task of some kind) somewhere between where the fisherdwarf is moving to and from. This bug ALWAYS occurs if there is some threat upon embark along the path that the fisherdwarf ends up travelling. | ||||
| Additional Information | Personally I'd prefer if fisherdwarf was not automatically assigned at all, or if there were some in-game method to change this setting. Not a major issue but it can mess up an initial embark which may have otherwise been fine provided the correct behaviour would have been performed in such a circumstance. | ||||
| Tags | 53.08, Fisherdwarf, fishing, Fortress Mode | ||||
