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sfedi

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My dwarves are dyng of thirst, help!
« on: March 15, 2008, 01:18:00 am »
Hi, I´m REALLY newbie on this fantastic game.

It is my second fortress, and I have a population of 18 dwarves, growing thin.

I have a river in front of my fortress, and yet my dwarves die of thirst.

I recently found out that you can desginate water source zones, and I did it, but yet, non of the dwarves went to it.

What am I doing wrong?

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Kagus

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Re: My dwarves are dyng of thirst, help!
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2008, 01:21:00 am »
The river's frozen over.  Dwarves can't drink ice.


Also, unless you've got some wounded dwarves who are just sitting in bed waiting for people to bring them something to drink (wounded dwarves will only take water, the silly gits), just brew lots and lots of booze.  Dwarves will prefer to drink booze, and can survive just fine without any water, provided they don't get severely injured.

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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2008, 01:28:00 am »
Thank you very much!

Is there any way I can unfreeze that water?

[ March 15, 2008: Message edited by: sfedi ]

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Re: My dwarves are dyng of thirst, help!
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2008, 01:37:00 am »
It will unfreeze once the weather gets warm enough, which, depending on your climate, should probably be in late winter or early spring (unless you went close enough to the poles for it to be frozen year-round, but that's not recommended for new players).

Undeground water will also not freeze, but I'm not aware of any straightforward way to cause ice blocks to stop being aboveground. I suppose you could try undermining them to cause a cave-in, and then roofing over the resultant gap...

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Re: My dwarves are dyng of thirst, help!
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2008, 01:54:00 am »
roofing it over wouldn't work; while it becomes 'indoors' it remains aboveground and stays frozen.

The only way I know of to melt frozen ice is to run magma near it, better to just brew booze and then, in springtime, work on making an underground reservoir

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« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2008, 01:56:00 am »
Oh man, I´m screwed, it´s early winter; they´re all gonna die!

Hope I can make enough booze to keep them alive.

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« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2008, 02:43:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by sfedi:
<STRONG>Oh man, I´m screwed, it´s early winter; they´re all gonna die!</STRONG>

It's not like that's the end of the world  :)

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« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2008, 03:00:00 am »
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Originally posted by benoit.hudson:
<STRONG>

It's not like that's the end of the world   :)</STRONG>

It´s that it was such a nive spot for a fortress...

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Re: My dwarves are dyng of thirst, help!
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2008, 03:07:00 am »
Reclaim it.
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sfedi

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« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2008, 03:40:00 am »
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Originally posted by Grek:
<STRONG>Reclaim it.</STRONG>

Well, that demonstrates how newbie I am  :)

Thanks!

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