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Ladygolem

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Dwarves won't clean!
« on: July 25, 2014, 03:51:05 pm »
Recently, dude to a mishap involving a well and floodgates and a underestimation of water pressure, I have ended up with a meeting hall covered in mud! However, even assigning a dwarf with no other labors but cleaning to a burrow that is solely composed of dirtied tiles will not convince any of them to actually wash anything up!



How do I bully, cajole, or otherwise force these buggers to actually clean this mess up? I didn't just spend months engraving that floor to have it covered in gunk!
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Larix

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Re: Dwarves won't clean!
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2014, 03:58:37 pm »
Mud won't be cleaned, just like loose boulders aren't moved by the "clean" labour.

Of course, the answer is as always MAGMA. Magma dries out mud.

Alternatively, you can order floor tiles built over your muddy floor.
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Ladygolem

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Re: Dwarves won't clean!
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2014, 04:02:46 pm »
Ah, balls. I had just had those floors put in. Ah, well, if that what it takes... Lesson learned: once the reservoir is reasonably full, never ever release that floodgate, even if it's just for a second!
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Re: Dwarves won't clean!
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2014, 04:22:16 pm »
I could have sworn the game -used- to have dwarves mop up the blood. In time a program called DFHack will catch up with the current release and you'll be able to clean up your floors with a simple command line.
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greycat

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Re: Dwarves won't clean!
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2014, 07:28:34 pm »
Quote from: Shazbot on July 25, 2014, 04:22:16 pm
I could have sworn the game -used- to have dwarves mop up the blood.

Blood, sure.  Mud, no.  Mud is useful!
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Re: Dwarves won't clean!
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2014, 07:52:26 pm »
Quote from: greycat on July 25, 2014, 07:28:34 pm
Quote from: Shazbot on July 25, 2014, 04:22:16 pm
I could have sworn the game -used- to have dwarves mop up the blood.

Blood, sure.  Mud, no.  Mud is useful!

Technically in the current release mud is bad once you hit the caverns due to the way trees grow now.
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Panando

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Re: Dwarves won't clean!
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2014, 09:04:31 pm »
You can eliminate mud by smoothing tiles, you can smooth already smoothed tiles by engraving minecart tracks over them, re-smoothing, and re-engraving. I haven't tried this specifically for removing mud from engraved tiles, but I think it should work.
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Larix

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Re: Dwarves won't clean!
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2014, 02:58:45 am »
Quote from: userpay on July 25, 2014, 07:52:26 pm
Quote from: greycat on July 25, 2014, 07:28:34 pm
Mud is useful!

Technically in the current release mud is bad once you hit the caverns due to the way trees grow now.

The point remains that muddying floor for farming would be an incredible chore if dwarfs randomly destroyed the farmable floor they create by deciding to "clean" it.
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