I read through the explanations on how to set up a military, and in the new version of DF it seems that anything beyond training requires setting up burrows. I set up a burrow on the doorstep of my fortress intending to make it part of a patrol route, but as soon as I finished creating it, all the dwarves in my fortress dropped what they were doing and crammed into the 6×6 area around my floor hatches, where I had drawn the burrow. I didn't assign any dwarves to the burrow. What's going on?
Also, do burrows cover multiple z levels or just the one they're drawn on?
Best Answer
Do you have an alert going on? Civilians will go to burrows they're not specifically assigned to if there is an alert active (this is an easy way to make sure your dwarves don't try to harvest socks from the enemy siegers).