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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / (Steam version) Hospitals: What am I doing wrong?
« on: December 23, 2022, 02:45:38 pm »
So I've got a hospital set up. It's small but fairly well-stocked, with beds and a table and a traction bench. The chest is loaded with as many supplies as I can spare from the main stockpile. There's a well to clean water right outside (it's a well I'm quite proud of, but that's not relevant here). One of my migrants is a trained doctor with solid skills in diagnostics and treatments, so I made him chief medical dwarf. Seasons passed and the hospital went unused.
Then one day, a giant toad appeared in the caverns. It jumped some of my dwarfs, and while most acquitted themselves well against the creature one of my miners got somewhat mauled. She got a mangled eye and a broken leg. The CMD was nearby and hauled her up to the hospital, which was great! What happened next, not so much; he decided to run off and do other jobs. I canceled those jobs several times but he always found something else to do. I tried going into the hospital menu and making the CMD a diagnostician. He continued to ignore the wounded miner. I made him a doctor and assigned a couple of random dwarfs to diagnostics just to try and improve the odds of someone getting to work. One of the new diagnosticians moved to the hospital but just hung out with no job, the others continued doing fortress tasks. Around this point my miner got out of bed, cleaned herself at the well, and returned to work with a health screen still showing injuries.
I'm not really sure what to do here. I thought my hospital was set up properly but when my fort finally had injuries everyone seemed to decide it wasn't worth bothering with. What should I do?
Then one day, a giant toad appeared in the caverns. It jumped some of my dwarfs, and while most acquitted themselves well against the creature one of my miners got somewhat mauled. She got a mangled eye and a broken leg. The CMD was nearby and hauled her up to the hospital, which was great! What happened next, not so much; he decided to run off and do other jobs. I canceled those jobs several times but he always found something else to do. I tried going into the hospital menu and making the CMD a diagnostician. He continued to ignore the wounded miner. I made him a doctor and assigned a couple of random dwarfs to diagnostics just to try and improve the odds of someone getting to work. One of the new diagnosticians moved to the hospital but just hung out with no job, the others continued doing fortress tasks. Around this point my miner got out of bed, cleaned herself at the well, and returned to work with a health screen still showing injuries.
I'm not really sure what to do here. I thought my hospital was set up properly but when my fort finally had injuries everyone seemed to decide it wasn't worth bothering with. What should I do?