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Dwarfus

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Stagnant Water in Buckets
« on: December 22, 2011, 03:48:42 pm »
I was rather surprised to find a number of buckets in my food stockpiles a few minutes ago, with nothing but stagnant water in them. I have never asked my dwarves to pail water, and certainly don't know how to get rid of it.

Why does this happen?
How can I lose the water?
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Re: Stagnant Water in Buckets
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2011, 03:51:19 pm »
Get the latest DFhack. Theres a little thing to run which deletes stagnant water from buckets.
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Re: Stagnant Water in Buckets
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2011, 03:59:09 pm »
Periodically a dwarf working on a difficult task will work long enough to become thirsty.  This will sometimes trigger another dwarf to grab a bucket and bring it to the thirsty dwarf, possibly as an unintended side effect of the bringing water to injured dwarf job.  The bucket holds up to 10 units of water, but only one will be consumed, so the still mostly full bucket gets left on the ground.  Eventually, the water may turn stagnant.  Annoyingly, your dwarves will never empty these buckets on their own, so they become unusable.

You can manually empty the buckets by forbidding the water (but not the bucket itself), then when a caravan arrives select the bucket to be brought to the trade depot.  Your dwarves will dump the forbidden water on the ground, then bring the now-empty bucket to the trade depot.
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Re: Stagnant Water in Buckets
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2011, 09:14:54 pm »
Is this an accidental feature or intended? It makes sense to find buckets of stagnant water, but if there is no way to collect it I would say that's the bug, not the stranded buckets.

Also, I've noticed that water doesn't freeze if it's in a bucket. If there is a way to reclaim the water, this might be a good anti-ice technique
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Re: Stagnant Water in Buckets
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2011, 09:21:51 pm »
Quote from: Armeleon on December 22, 2011, 09:14:54 pm
Is this an accidental feature or intended? It makes sense to find buckets of stagnant water, but if there is no way to collect it I would say that's the bug, not the stranded buckets.

Also, I've noticed that water doesn't freeze if it's in a bucket. If there is a way to reclaim the water, this might be a good anti-ice technique

If there was a way to stop the water from stagnating.

Or just immediately dump it in a pond.
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Re: Stagnant Water in Buckets
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2011, 10:49:50 pm »
The bug is that dwarves won't empty buckets unless you do some annoying micromanagement.  They should have enough wits to dump out stagnant water and return the bucket to the stockpile without you having to trick them into it with the depot trick.
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Re: Stagnant Water in Buckets
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2011, 11:26:12 pm »
Main report for this is Bug #4230.
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