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[Thormgrim]

I just had a dwarf randomly dehydrate and die on me.
He was collecting webs in the caverns or something, and I had seen him standing there with "Drink" as his job for quite a while.  He never went to get his drink and eventually just died there.  No idea why.  No injuries, not in the combat log, nothing.

I decided to check the health screen in therapist and see if there's anybody else around who is starving or dehydrated and found two more dwarves just sort of hanging out, starving.

There are no burrows in effect, no restrictions of any kind.  None of them are visibly injured and there is no combat log for any of them, so i don't htink they have undiagnosed injuries preventing movement

Ideas?

[MobRules]

Are you absolutely certain that they have a clear path back to where the food and drink is -- that one wrong square or ramp didn't get dug somewhere, cutting off their way back?

If the AI can't path to somewhere, it doesn't go as far as it can and then stop -- it just doesn't move at all.

[Thormgrim]

yeah, I'm sure.  They're in different areas of the fort, and other dwarves are pathing right by them with no problems.

[Jackboot]

I've had this bug quite a bit - it's more pronounced with military dwarves. It's gotten to the point that I just refuse to breach the caverns and if I do, to just seal them off completely. One way to fix it is to use dfhack to dump 7/7 water on them until they 'dodge' away and walk as normal.

[neblime]

If you have a well try destroying it, I have had this happen when I build a well sometimes.  (Although im not 100% sure it hasnt been fixe)

[utunnels]

You can quickly check it by trying to build something like a bed there if your furnitures are stored in the same area as your drinks.
If there's no path the crosshair will become purple.

[Thormgrim]

I tried to shock one of them out of it with dfhack liquids and drop water on his head.  He was outside, on the side of a mountain and I forgot to check the temperature outside.  He's now a dwarfcicle, so I guess that sort of solves the "won't eat" problem.

[Ives]

I almost lost a legendary hammerdorf once because of this. Luckily I've noticed her dehydration in time.

Try causing a cave-in nearby if it happens again.

[Slackratchet]

I've had this as well. Sometimes it can be cured by making the confused dwarf part of a military squad and stationing them somewhere although that doesn't always work.

[Thisfox]

I thought I was experiencing the same problem... then I realised I'd floored in a bloke who went on break in the lower catacombs. Oops.