fix/archery-practice

Make quivers the last item in the inventory of every ranged unit currently training and split stacks of ammo items assigned for training inside the quivers to ensure each training unit can have more than one stack to allow archery practice to take place.

Note

The bug preventing units from initiating archery practice was fixed in DF version 53.01. See below for more information about the issue and how this tool works to mitigate it. Running this tool for any other archery related issues will not yield useful results.

Usage

fix/archery-practice

Move quivers to the end of units’ inventory list and split stacks of training ammo items inside the quivers.

fix/archery-practice -q, fix/archery-practice --quiet

Move quivers to the end of units’ inventory list and split stacks of training ammo items inside the quivers. Do not print to console.

This tool will set quivers as the last item in the inventory of units in squads that are currently set to train as well as split ammo items inside their quivers into multiple stacks if a quiver contains only ammo item with a stack size of 25 or larger assigned for training. The original training ammo item with a reduced stack size will remain in the quiver while new ammo items split from it will be placed on the ground where the unit is located to be picked up later.

Why are archers not practicing archery?

Due to a bug in the game, a unit that is scheduled to train will not be able to practice archery at the archery range when their quiver contains only one stack of ammo item assigned for training. This is sometimes indicated on the unit by the ‘Soldier (no item)’ status.

During versions 52.03 and 52.04, the issue was the complete reverse; units would not practice when their quivers contained more than one stack of ammo items assigned for training.

Another issue in 52.05 is that units will not practice archery if their quiver is not the last item in their inventory.

This tool provides an interim remedy by moving quivers to the end of every training unit’s inventory list and splitting stacks of ammo items inside their quivers to prompt the game to give them multiple stacks of training ammo items.

Limitations

The game has a tendency to reshuffle the squad’s ammo/unit pairings if the newly split ammo items are force paired to the units holding the original ammo item. As a compromise, the new items are placed on the ground instead and added to the squad’s training ammo assignment pool, so that the game can distribute the items normally without causing the pairing for ammo items already in quivers to be reshuffled.

Although this tool would allow units to practice archery, the activity will still be aborted once they have only one stack of training ammo item remaining in their quivers. Practicing units will gain skill from practice, but not the positive thought they would have gained from having completed the activity. Once the game assigns more training ammo items to them, they can continue practicing archery.