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obsidian razor

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Anyway to set up the feeding/ caring of prisoners and patients higher?
« on: April 30, 2010, 03:19:26 am »
I've already lost two dwarves to thirst because all my medical personnel (and non-medical with just that function) decides that they have "no job" when I have people dying of thirst!!

Anybody found someway to go around this problem?
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Dorf3000

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Re: Anyway to set up the feeding/ caring of prisoners and patients higher?
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2010, 03:27:00 am »
Maybe a silly question but do you have a source of fresh water? and unforbidden buckets that aren't being used to fill a pond?

IIRC a well is a guaranteed fresh water source even if it is over salt water, but that might have changed now.
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Re: Anyway to set up the feeding/ caring of prisoners and patients higher?
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2010, 03:40:16 am »
I had a well pulling from a cistern, and no one would water the injured.  Then I built a screw pump that pulled from a salt water aquifier and output to a jet block 3x3 tank and it was fresh water and the injured got to drink.

It could just be a bug, but it could also be that some basic sanitation requirements have been implemented. 
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obsidian razor

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Re: Anyway to set up the feeding/ caring of prisoners and patients higher?
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2010, 04:07:26 am »
I have a well built in my hospital and nothing...

My prisoners are farther away from the well, but there are free buckets, so I don't understand...

Then again, I might have found the problem... every piece of equipment left on the hospital is considered hospital equipment... and my dwarfs all but ignore the hospital's equipment and use only equipment from outside the hospital!!
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creidieki

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Re: Anyway to set up the feeding/ caring of prisoners and patients higher?
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2010, 04:19:23 am »
The bug tracker mentioned that patients who aren't in beds don't seem to get water.  If they're not currently in a bed, build a bed underneath them.  (If they still don't realize that they're in a bed after a while, deconstruct the new bed from underneath them.  They should get moved into a different hospital bed.)
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obsidian razor

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Re: Anyway to set up the feeding/ caring of prisoners and patients higher?
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2010, 04:45:42 am »
Nope, they where in bed alright... for about 3 years!

Anyways, the problem seems to be the buckets... my dwarves "use them up" when they use them for the hospital, because after giving water to the patients they just drop the bucket in the hospital and they ignore it forever...
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Re: Anyway to set up the feeding/ caring of prisoners and patients higher?
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2010, 04:48:48 am »
Deconstruct the bed underneath them so they get moved to another one. That should fix it, worked for me.
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