0008908: Military dwarves with station or kill orders often report the incorrect job in the units list and v - g.

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0008908

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Mode -- Jobs, Military

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2015-04-05 19:28

2015-04-06 18:32

Reporter

m-logik

Assigned To

lethosor

Priority

normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

Status

resolved

Resolution

duplicate

Platform

windows

OS Version

8.1

Product Version

0.40.24

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0008908: Military dwarves with station or kill orders often report the incorrect job in the units list and v - g.

Description

When given an order to station in a or kill something, an individual dwarf will sometimes show "Go to combat training" as their active job. Conversely, a dwarf will sometimes show the order they were given as the active job while going to do something else.

Steps To Reproduce

For the first case, it can usually be reproduced by taking a dwarf that is participating in a demonstration and sending that dwarf (alone) to perform a station or kill order. In the second case, allowing a dwarf to complete a kill order (resulting in a "Urist McOffdutynow has become a cheesemaker" announcement) and then giving the same dwarf a new task will usually result in them showing the job as active while they go to perform another task.

Additional Information

I have seen this consistently in every one of my .40.x forts. The former case seems to happen much more often than the latter.
In the latter case where a dwarf shows that they are performing the order but have actually left to do something else, there is no announcement to indicate that they are not performing the job. Something to the effect of "Dastot Letmoslokum cancels kill troglodytes: hungry." would be useful, along with actually clearing the job from their status in the u and v screens.