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[polpoint]

I have a dwarf who washed down the river to a one-square wide place and is really thirsty. But he is almost surrounded by water!

[X]

Did he kill an albatross?

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[Fieari]

This has been reported before.  IIRC, Toady explained that this is because the dwarf wants to drink from a particular and specific square, and can't reach it.

[FaultyLogic]

Mmm.. that patch of water looks quenching.

[segmose]

Make the poor fellow a bridge.

[polpoint]

he swam over there, he can swim back for all I care

[Aquillion]

Hmm.  Right now, I suspect that a trapped dwarf will never try and swim to safety...  I suppose checking to see if they're actually trapped and then making some sort of risk-assessment to see if it's all right to swim would be too complicated.

Maybe the player should have some way of specifically ordering a dwarf into a dangerous situation, though?  It seems a shame to have a dwarf stuck within one water square of land, say.

[Toady One]

If a dwarf has been sitting on the same square with no job for a long time, they could periodically path-flooding out a few squares away from themselves to see if they are being dumb.  It shouldn't tax the CPU at all.  The game probably needs a few more reality checks like that.