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[Corai]

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If not, im trying to make a bath-house to give my dwarves swimming skill. I wanna know if they will get ticked for being soaked, cause there all getting ticked, Im hoping a bath will fix that.

[Absentia]

As far as I know even near-death by drowning doesn't give a negative thought. They aren't going to get any positive thoughts from swimming, either. Dwarfs only like water in the form of mist (the wiki has a convenient design for a perpetual mist generator).

[Garath]

and dislike rain

[Broseph Stalin]

As far as I know even near-death by drowning doesn't give a negative thought. They aren't going to get any positive thoughts from swimming, either. Dwarfs only like water in the form of mist (the wiki has a convenient design for a perpetual mist generator).

The purpose of the bath house is to give them the "Had a nice bath" thought without them playing in mud puddles like alcoholic children.

[NonconsensualSurgery]

Your design will generate no bad thoughts. Stagnant water is just as good as clean water for dwarfwashing.

Dwarves train swimming without drowning when they move through a tile with 4-6/7 of water. Merely flooding the chamber with nasty river water and leaving them to soak won't work. You need to either constantly push them around with flowing water or give them some incentive to move or both.

Your basic auto-dwarfwasher is a civilians-trigger pressure plate connected to two long retractable bridges, a lever, and a plan to raise and lower the water level in the space under the bridges as needed. The lever does nothing but acts as idler bait and lures dwarves to try to cross the bridge. You can control who will try to pull it with the manager screen. They never make it because they trip the pressure plate and splash down every time.

If they have an exit that's closer than 20 tiles, they'll begin swimming towards it. You can increase the training by forcing them to swim against a mild current. Be prepared to clean babies out of it every once in a while; mothers lose hold of infants when they're dropped into water and won't pick them up until the water level drops.

[Corai]

Your design will generate no bad thoughts. Stagnant water is just as good as clean water for dwarfwashing.

Dwarves train swimming without drowning when they move through a tile with 4-6/7 of water. Merely flooding the chamber with nasty river water and leaving them to soak won't work. You need to either constantly push them around with flowing water or give them some incentive to move or both.

Your basic auto-dwarfwasher is a civilians-trigger pressure plate connected to two long retractable bridges, a lever, and a plan to raise and lower the water level in the space under the bridges as needed. The lever does nothing but acts as idler bait and lures dwarves to try to cross the bridge. You can control who will try to pull it with the manager screen. They never make it because they trip the pressure plate and splash down every time.

If they have an exit that's closer than 20 tiles, they'll begin swimming towards it. You can increase the training by forcing them to swim against a mild current. Be prepared to clean babies out of it every once in a while; mothers lose hold of infants when they're dropped into water and won't pick them up until the water level drops.

Its there meeting hall, there moving around randomly and they get a new job every 3 seconds, leaving for plenty of moving.


Will that work?

[NonconsensualSurgery]

Its there meeting hall, there moving around randomly and they get a new job every 3 seconds, leaving for plenty of moving.


Will that work?

Dwarves will never voluntarily swim. Wet bars and public swimming pools are impossible. The dwarf must be dropped in, pushed in by flowing water or be forcibly launched into the air during combat to get a dwarf to start swimming. Dropping with a bridge is just the simplest and most controllable way to do this.