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[Girlinhat]

Will weavers respect the hospital?  If I assign "make rope" on repeat, will they deplete the hospital of cloth?

[Fredd]

Girlinhat, once you reserve cloth for the hospital, no one will take it, even if its stored in other stockpiles. Even if the hospital has no coffers to store it, its still reserved. Which leads to the soap bug. Since you have soap reserved for the hospital, with not enough coffers to store it there, its still reserved, which gives you the Cancel Clean spam. In reverse, if you have loads of cloth reserved, and the rope makers cannot get any more non reserved cloth, will give a message stating cannot follow order. Not enough cloth, or whatever. You are smart, can decipher my terminology, lol

[Girlinhat]

That's fine.  I was worried that I'd have to ration my textiles industry, but as long as it'll keep hospital stocks I can easily overproduce silk.  After all, I'm currently the proud owner of a breeding pair of GCS

[Mkombat]

I have a bug right now where a child dwarf keeps trying to use the hospital soap (well that and every other soap he can find), but he can't. Says he can't clean self because the area is inaccessible.. weird.

[Girlinhat]

I don't bother with soap, meh.

[Jingles]

I don't bother with soap, meh.

I wouldn't either but since dwarfs don't need light and don't burn tallow, if you don't make soap you end up with tons of useless tallow barrels.

[The Dog Delusion]

I don't bother with soap, meh.

I wouldn't either but since dwarfs don't need light and don't burn tallow, if you don't make soap you end up with tons of useless tallow barrels.

you can always cook it...

...but back on topic, I was unaware that unstocked material could still be "reserved." I've been currently trying to decide whether or not to simply have stockpiles in the hospital instead of actual containers, but with this in mind, I'm wondering if containers might not be better...

[ral]

I've found that using containers is superior to trying to mess with stockpiles. It seems that containers will be loaded much more intelligently. Just use 10-20 stone coffers in the hospital zone and that will do the trick.

[Rover963]

I have a bug right now where a child dwarf keeps trying to use the hospital soap (well that and every other soap he can find), but he can't. Says he can't clean self because the area is inaccessible.. weird.

Great fix to for this is make a channel before any "hotspot" that dwarves hang out in, then fill it with at most 3/7 water. Basically forces every dwarf to take a dip before getting somewhere. This washes them off and stops that dreaded spam.

[Girlinhat]

The dorfbath, yes, making a channel, usually outside the dining hall, to wash everyone, then preferably using DFHack to clean it and preserve some FPS.  This can be done easily by digging a channel directly outside your dining hall door, and designating it a pond.  It'll fill up to 6/7, at which point you remove the zone, and channel out the two neighboring tiles, which should be diagonal to the door.  This creates a perfect 2/7 bathtub that everyone eventually walks through.

On topic: I've noticed a lot of junk in my hospital.  Like thread and cloth left laying on the beds, refusing to be placed back in the containers.

[Fredd]

I think that's when an injured Bomreck sees a really drunk novice surgeon getting ready to operate on him, and flees the hospital.
 Rover, just store all soap in the hospital. Will take care of the cancel Clean spam messages. i think the coding is for dirty dwarves(heavens forbid) to get the soap from the hospital, not stockpiles.
 Always store some thread, cloth, and splints in the hospital. you don't want to give the lazy doctors a chance to go travel to a far off stockpile, then get into a party mood.(I am sure the DMA, dwarven medical association, will cry foul)

[Girlinhat]

I'm also now carefully guarding my adamantine strands, which are considered cloth and are eligible for sutures.  They're on their way to becoming wafer, but that in-between phase still worries me >.>

[Fredd]

If you are using lots of thread in the hospital, that's a good sign you are having problems. Just forbid the adamantine thread, lock up the fort, when the hospital is empty, wafer them like the goats of Armok were after you

[shmelse]

All i can think about when i see this thread title is

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[Jake]

The dorfbath, yes, making a channel, usually outside the dining hall, to wash everyone, then preferably using DFHack to clean it and preserve some FPS.  This can be done easily by digging a channel directly outside your dining hall door, and designating it a pond.  It'll fill up to 6/7, at which point you remove the zone, and channel out the two neighboring tiles, which should be diagonal to the door.  This creates a perfect 2/7 bathtub that everyone eventually walks through.

A much dwarfier alternative to DFHack is to periodically drain the footbath, dumping the contaminants into the farms or the great magma sea. If you're feeling especially vindictive you can even use it as the basis for a drowning trap.