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[Ookpik]

After the third huge blast of miasma hit a fortress with plenty of functional refuse piles, I started to suspect that something was wrong.  Sure enough, scanning the kitchen with the [k] key showed that some rotten roast was stuck in the top-centre wall of the kitchen -- an inaccessible square.  It just sat there rotting and rotting and rotting, and it's in a high-traffic area meaning that it's upset a bunch a huge proportion of my population.

How did that food get there in the first place?  A dwarf can't even pass through that wall on her way somewhere else, can she?  And will this food ever stop rotting or will I have to dismantle the building to get at it?

Edit:  I should have mentioned that this was a busy kitchen that had been in the same place for a long time with no problems.  I did not build the kitchen on top of the food.

[ December 08, 2006: Message edited by: Ookpik ]

[Toady One]

It should eventually rot away.

Could a tantrum dwarf have thrown it?

[Maximus]

Stuff can also be moved onto inaccessible squares by seasonal floodwaters.

[Ookpik]

Ah-ha, Maximus found the answer.  It turns out that the whole food-service area was messed up by a spring flood -- I soon learned that along with the rotten food, a stone was also stuck in a different inaccessible square, and there was also a spiderweb growing in a THIRD inaccessible square.  Basically every workshop in the room was blinking annoyingly and I had to dismantle the whole damn thing.