0003874: Dwarves fight over animals - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003874	Dwarf Fortress	Dwarf Mode -- Jobs, Animal Handling	public	2011-01-06 14:17	2011-01-06 15:37

Reporter	Farmerbob	Assigned To	Logical2u
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	duplicate
Platform	Core Duo / GTX9800 / 4GB RAM	OS	Vista	OS Version	64 bit home prem
Product Version	0.31.18

Summary	0003874: Dwarves fight over animals
Description	I've noticed that butchering, milking, and chaining / caging duries can cause dwarves to fight over animals for hours. Apparently prioritization of animal tasks needs some love. I've sat and watched my fortress starve while my butcher and my milker fight over a cow. Prioritize milking, then butchering? More frequently I see milking and chaining fights. Prioritize chaining over milking? Often I see butchering and chaining fights. Prioritize chaining over butchering? Basically I think that animals should have some sort of action queue, and if chaining is on that queue, the chaining should happen first, then milking then butchering? If such a thing has existed in the past, it no longer seems to work.
Steps To Reproduce	Every version of DF for the last year or so since I first noticed it has had this issue. All you need is a cow, a workshop, and a chain. put the meeting place between them, widely separated, and assign a milking job and a chaining job while dwarves with both milking and animal hauling jobs are free, and you will watch a tug-of-war.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-01-06 14:17	Farmerbob	New Issue
2011-01-06 15:37	Logical2u	Note Added: 0014812
2011-01-06 15:37	Logical2u	Relationship added	duplicate of 0000410
2011-01-06 15:37	Logical2u	Status	new => resolved
2011-01-06 15:37	Logical2u	Resolution	open => duplicate
2011-01-06 15:37	Logical2u	Assigned To	=> Logical2u
2011-01-06 15:37	Logical2u	Relationship added	duplicate of 0001797