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[Jim Groovester]

While I was securing a source of water for my goblins so that they wouldn't die of dehydration on the freezing tundra and mountain I put them on, I discovered something that I hadn't noticed before: goblins (and by extension, the race you're currently playing) drink from wells very quickly. So quickly in fact, that it's almost instantaneous. They simply walk to the well, pull out one unit of water from the bucket, and go on their merry little way, thirst completely quenched.

As we all know, our workers spend half their time drinking from barrels of booze while all of our projects remain undone. So I got to thinking, could I increase the productivity of my citizens by utilizing wells instead of barrels of booze?

If you play as a race that isn't alcohol dependent, then the answer is an obvious yes. You can greatly increase productivity by using the near instantaneous drinking speed from wells with no side effects that come from being alcohol dependent. You'll miss out on the happy thoughts that come from drinking booze, but we all have legendary dining rooms anyway.

The problem comes when you apply this to dwarves. Would the time gained from instantaneous drinking balance out the slowness that comes from not having drunk booze in a while?

I think so. I don't know how much dwarves slow down without booze, but I think it could be easily counterbalanced with agility increases and quicker drinking time. Hunters, for some reason, drink from waterskins instead of barrels of booze, and I can barely notice any difference in how fast they work.

Only one creature can drink from a well at a time, and that includes the time a creature is walking to the well, so you would need several wells to keep up with demand. But, dammit, I'm tired of waiting for my dwarves to stop drinking and get back to work, and five or ten wells and a bunch of sober dwarves seem like a small price to pay.

[Sizik]

There is only one solution: Magma booze wells.

[ein]

You could also remove [ALCOHOL_DEPENDANT] from the dwarves' raws. Let's assume this means that your dwarves now go to Magmaholics Alcoholics Anonymous.

[Creamcorn]

If you could manage to completely dig out channels in a five by five main hall way and place a well on every single you could wind up with super completely productive fortress and legendary architects to boot.

[Argonnek]

You could also remove [ALCOHOL_DEPENDANT] from the dwarves' raws. Let's assume this means that your dwarves now go to Magmaholics Alcoholics Anonymous.

Thou shalt not disrespect the holy blessing of Armok! The dependency stays!

[Time Kitten]

sure you go without the thoughts for having booze.... but admiring a tastfully aranged well every 20 paces is probably better anyways (and easilly legendary if all your water is on the bottem level, and you have excelent quality mechanisms platinum buckets, and masterfully dyed cloth rope and crystal glass blocks or some such.

[forsaken1111]

If you could manage to completely dig out channels in a five by five main hall way and place a well on every single you could wind up with super completely productive fortress and legendary architects to boot.

Wouldn't this just ensure lots of people mistakenly fell in the wells?

[Albedo]

Yes. And walked back up the stairs you built down to the well bottom, because you're not an idiot.

[MrWiggles]

Wont they die when they fal tol death if it at the bottom of the map and or drown?

[Albedo]

If they fall to their deaths, yes, they will die (oddly enough).  Likewise, if they drown, they will also die. (Some may see a pattern here.)

If you make the water only a z-level down or so, then that fall won't kill very many.  And if there are stairs, they won't be in the water long enough to drown.

[NegaDwarf]

"Alright, boys! Pour the booze in the well! Nothing can go wrong!"

[Kanil]

If you make the water only a z-level down or so, then that fall won't kill very many.

Will a one Z level fall kill anyone?

[Lord_Shadow]

Remove drinking... this would increase the speed of that my fortress works at, but on the same token would make dwarves more elf like... WTF MAN non drinking dwarves.

[Time Kitten]

If you make the water only a z-level down or so, then that fall won't kill very many.

Will a one Z level fall kill anyone?

They get stunned, and splat face down into a puddle.  While most things can hold their breath for a month, your legendary peasant who trained everything but toughness will likely drown in a few seconds.

[Coilgunner]

If you could manage to completely dig out channels in a five by five main hall way and place a well on every single you could wind up with super completely productive fortress and legendary architects to boot.

I'm going to do this to my current fortress!  Why have I not thought of that yet...