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[celestial_okami]

I noticed an odd light blue double tilde ~ icon in my food stockpile and I loo(k)ed at it and it said it was 'Stagnant water [9]', it has the status of 'grime covering' and its description is 'This is a stack of 9 stagnant water.'  It is not a water tile and doesn't have depth.  It is also nowhere near a water source, and is in fact .

I'm pretty sure this isn't supposed to happen right?  My only though would be if perhaps it is the remains of a vermin-eaten or otherwise decomposed wine barrel, although I have six cats roaming the fortress to take care of vermin.

It appears as if one of my engravers is mopping it up, although I made a backup save right as he started doing it incase this a bug.

[Toady One]

Did you ever put water in a bucket?  Buckets can carry 10 water, I think.  The item water uses different units (10 to 1) from the map water.  If it came from a swamp, I think it gets stagnant/grime, though there might be other ways that could come up, I don't recall.

[Deon]

Did you mine the ice? It may stay from a frozen water block hauled and dropped by someone.

[Sean Mirrsen]

It could also be from a dropped waterskin. There are all kinds of weird stuff with those in adventure mode.

[ogion]

Did you ever put water in a bucket?  Buckets can carry 10 water, I think.  The item water uses different units (10 to 1) from the map water.  If it came from a swamp, I think it gets stagnant/grime, though there might be other ways that could come up, I don't recall.

My thoughts on this is...

Why does it not get dumped as it turns stagnant, instead of storing as food?

I think it is from when your injured dwarfs get watered, and there's leftovers in the bucket, it gets putrid, so then it is still considered a food item, and hence stored in a food stock pile. The issue it raises in me is why does it stay food, and not turn into garbage when it goes stale?

[Time Kitten]

'cause it started stale and grimy.  You're taking it out of a mud puddle.

Ye gods, dwarves need to learn of medicinal whiskey.

[kuro_suna]

This has happened to me,
It seems like it's caused when a dwarf gets a bucket of water for a another injured dwarf but on their way back their booze-o meter runs low. They drop the bucket and water, then go off for a drink and another dwarf takes the bucket back to the furniture stockpile and the water that fell out to the food stockpile.