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[Brhino]

Is there any way to get dwarves to clean areas that are inside but above ground?  I'm building an above-ground fortress, but my dwarves are tracking Rhesus Macaque blood everywhere.

[tolkafox]

Is there any way to get dwarves to clean areas that are inside but above ground?  I'm building an above-ground fortress, but my dwarves are tracking Rhesus Macaque blood everywhere.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Cleaning

There is an option in DFhack to clean up outside blood though.

[Brhino]

the wiki says that dwarves will clean up "interior and non-muddied subterranean floors", which is a little vague.  From what I have experienced, they will clean up underground blood always.  They won't clean up outside blood, which shouldn't be a problem unless you're in an area that gets no rain (like my last fortress that I abandoned because I was down to 5 FPS - my god, the trade depot was four different colors of splattered!).  However, they also will not clean up above ground blood even when it's in a covered interior area.  I imagine that this follows the same "once outside, always outside" mechanic that prevents miasma from occurring above ground and allows above-ground crops to be grown in covered surface areas.