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[RavingManiac]

See title.

Currently, dwarves often cancel their jobs while doing them due to needing to eat, sleep or drink. This can be quite annoying when you want a job done urgently, like raising a drawbridge. Therefore, giving dwarves a higher hunger/thirst/sleep threshold while doing a job would give less of a headache to the player. The dwarves can have their break after completing their task.

[TettyNullus]

Yes, I dearly supports this, it's pretty annoying to see things get scattered around on constructions because someone decided to take a break in middle of hauling the material to build with. Same with dumping and other hauler tasks

[Tormy]

What about just letting the dwarves to carry food & drink with themselves?

[profit]

of course going with this idea.. Would dwarves that are tired produce shoddy items??

Would hungry or thirsty dwarves do the same because they are not concentrating on their job?

[Derakon]

I know I've seen Toady mention this as one of the things he plans to do -- dwarves should stick it out when they're on the job instead of canceling the moment they realize they're a bit hungry.

Profit: certainly not, since you don't have any control over dwarven restfulness. That kind of thing would only be appropriate if it was based on a setting you could tweak for how hard the dwarves were working overall, which is an entirely different (repeat) suggestion.

[Rysith]

of course going with this idea.. Would dwarves that are tired produce shoddy items??

Would hungry or thirsty dwarves do the same because they are not concentrating on their job?

I think that this would be more along the lines of "finish current task, then go get a drink", not "keep working forever". Basically, when the job finished the next job the dwarf would pick up would be the drink/eat/sleep task rather than the current system where they drop whatever they are doing to drink/eat/sleep.

There would probably be a higher threshold at which they would cancel to eat/drink/sleep, though, to prevent dwarves dehydrating on long hauling jobs and such.