0002948: Stone hauling/construction doesn't increase strength

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(0011482) Footkerchief (manager) 2010-08-04 07:14	One other thing here, is that actually building walls, stairways and suchlike doesn't seem to impove the masons skill at all. This is probably intentional. It was the same in 40d, at least. Anyway, when Toady marked 0000803 as fixed, he must have missed a few jobs. Are there any gaps aside from hauling and construction?

(0011485) king doom (reporter) 2010-08-04 07:42 edited on: 2010-08-04 11:34	Noble jobs don't increase PHYSICAL stats, but that makes sense at least - bookkeepers/traders/managers spend a lot of time sitting down. I'm not sure about building traps, my single mechanic is average in size, but he does spend a fair bit of time in the workshop building mechanisms, and it seems like workshop time is what builds stats, so that might be keeping the weight down. Might be worth seting things so that I have a mechanic in the workshop only and one setting up stuff only, see what happens to them. For other jobs, I'm not sure. I tend to have them work in spurts, and honestly, the fat seems to turn up way too easily, since they all end up blob shaped anyway, after about a half a year of just hauling. Has Toady ever commented on the masonry skill not going up by building a wall thing? seems like it should, I mean, it's not just a case of piling rock on top of each other, building a decent wall takes skill.

(0011491) Footkerchief (manager) 2010-08-04 08:21 edited on: 2010-08-04 08:24	I'm not sure if there are mental stats, but if there are, those aren't increasing when my guy goes from zero skill to legendary at bookkeeping. There are many mental attributes: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Attribute [^] Has Toady ever commented on the masonry skill not going up by building a wall thing? Not that I could find, but if it's a bug, we already have a report at 0002323, which I'll reopen now so that this discussion can continue there.

(0011495) king doom (reporter) 2010-08-04 11:28	http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Attribute [^] Oh what the hell? Just forget it. Forget the mental stuff. remove all trace of it from the bug report, I don't want to risk Toady altering it by adding another eighty categories.

(0011500) Footkerchief (manager) 2010-08-04 12:03	Just forget it. Forget the mental stuff. remove all trace of it from the bug report, I don't want to risk Toady altering it by adding another eighty categories. There's not much chance he'll add more anytime soon. Those were all added in Oct 2008 (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_2008.html#2008-10-19 [^]), and most of them are just future-proofing.

(0011501) king doom (reporter) 2010-08-04 12:58	Carefully going through the link provided and carefully going through my dwarves, yeah, mental attributes seem to work fine, that was a user error on my part, I was assuming things were using similar stats to the old version. It's really just the entire hard work doesn't cause you to get fit thing now.

(0017934) malvado (reporter) 2011-06-05 08:05	Stat gain is not working exactly as before , in many cases the stat decrease is higher than the stat increase in 31.25 and as such I personally didnt see any good increase untill I modified the initial files in a 2 year span. It's easy to achieve legendary in most labours without having almost any increase at all with the current rates.

(0017935) kwieland (reporter) 2011-06-05 14:37	Malvado, I've noticed a similar thing. Several of my dwarves are legendary in skills but still pretty weak physically. I don't think that would happen in 40d

(0022283) Videospirit (reporter) 2012-04-16 00:15	I know that record keeper pumped up my expedition leaders memory and analytical abilities through the roof, and my danger room has turbo charged kinestethic sense, spatial sense, and willpower on the dwarves left to get poked with sticks all year round, so mental stats are definately working as intended and I`ve seen noticeable improvement on all dwarves whom had hauling disabled. Dwarves who did have hauling enabled however are all terrible, some even losing stats in the areas their main profession when they aren`t hauling would improve, but since I disable hauling on military dwarves, and even clumsy very weak quick to tire dwarves can get some work done It has not bothered me much.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-08-04 05:59	king doom	New Issue
2010-08-04 07:10	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0000803
2010-08-04 07:12	Footkerchief	Summary	Stat gain/loss still works very oddly. => Hauling/construction doesn't keep dwarves from getting fat and weak
2010-08-04 07:14	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0011482
2010-08-04 07:14	Footkerchief	Summary	Hauling/construction doesn't keep dwarves from getting fat and weak => Rock hauling/construction doesn't keep dwarves from getting fat and weak
2010-08-04 07:14	Footkerchief	Summary	Rock hauling/construction doesn't keep dwarves from getting fat and weak => Stone hauling/construction doesn't keep dwarves from getting fat and weak
2010-08-04 07:42	king doom	Note Added: 0011485
2010-08-04 08:21	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0011491
2010-08-04 08:23	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0002323
2010-08-04 08:24	Footkerchief	Note Edited: 0011491	View Revisions
2010-08-04 08:25	Footkerchief	Summary	Stone hauling/construction doesn't keep dwarves from getting fat and weak => Stone hauling/construction doesn't increase strength, bookkeeping doesn't increase mental atts
2010-08-04 11:28	king doom	Note Added: 0011495
2010-08-04 11:34	king doom	Note Edited: 0011485	View Revisions
2010-08-04 12:03	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0011500
2010-08-04 12:58	king doom	Note Added: 0011501
2010-08-04 13:06	Footkerchief	Summary	Stone hauling/construction doesn't increase strength, bookkeeping doesn't increase mental atts => Stone hauling/construction doesn't increase strength
2011-06-05 08:05	malvado	Note Added: 0017934
2011-06-05 14:37	kwieland	Note Added: 0017935
2012-04-16 00:15	Videospirit	Note Added: 0022283
2012-04-17 13:05	Hieronymous Alloy	Issue Monitored: Hieronymous Alloy
2014-08-04 14:26	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0007839