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[NonconsensualSurgery]

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but my dwarves just won't fill a bucket from a pool dug out over an aquifer.

I read that they don't like to take from ramps, so I built a floor partway out over a large pool. No effect.

I read that the water source area has to include adjacent tiles. So, I made it bigger. I went down and tried it on the level below too. No effect.

Can't use well. No stone, no mechanisms, on top of aquifer.

You know... I think this worked before. Really I did. Have I missed something?

[Qinetix]

Are there other water sources outside? Have you designed a zone for it and tell the dwarves to only collect water from designated zones?

[Sphalerite]

Is your site near the ocean?  Aquifers near the ocean can be salty, and therefore unusable as a water source without a well or desalination system.  You can however build a desalination system completely out of wood if you need to.

[NonconsensualSurgery]

Is your site near the ocean?  Aquifers near the ocean can be salty, and therefore unusable as a water source without a well or desalination system.  You can however build a desalination system completely out of wood if you need to.

That could have been it, but I wouldn't have expected salt to have affected their ability to fill a bucket and dump it somewhere else to help me get through the aquifer (tundra biome). I also began to notice other strange issues with dwarfy behavior like engineers sitting idle forever instead of building mechanisms (thought to bring stone for them) or medical dwarves not picking up wounded dwarves while craftsdwarves still made barrels and farmers kept farming. Strange stuff. I must have screwed up their ability to do things in general.