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[Necronic]

I can't get my dwarves to drink from my well or the other designated zones I have, and they continually leave the fortress to drink from the river. What can I do to fix this? The zones I have are set up surrounding the well (which is also a very busy meeting hall), and there are also 3 other zones set up where the river comes through the fortress. Instead of all of these, they wander to a non-designated, incredibly dangerous area!

What am I doing wrong?

[zchris13]

Probably your well.  Post screenies of the well, without the designations showing, in the same position.  So we can decide what is broken.

▼Yeah i was going to say that, but whatevs.

[Albedo]

There's also an option under ( <o>, <z> ) about drinking/fishing from zones vs where ever.

[assimilateur]

Gonna ask a related question, I hope you don't mind. Shouldn't derail the thread as it's also about wells:

Do you even need to designate a water source zone at a well to make them drink reliably from it? I hadn't done it the last time and I'm almost sure I've seen some positive thoughts regarding drinking from a well, but I didn't really track whether they were going to the brook for water as well.

[Jim Groovester]

Nope, no need to designate it as a water source. They go to the well automatically and prefer it from drinking from the brook.

[assimilateur]

Nope, no need to designate it as a water source. They go to the well automatically and prefer it from drinking from the brook.

Nice.

[Shoku]

If the "river" is actually a brook you'll need to channel out some of the tiles for the water source zone to work right- it's a bug.

Also meeting zone wells might end up with dwarves falling in.

[Albedo]

<nods>

Think of a "brook" as coming with a buggy grate over the entire top - a dwarf can fish thru it, but can't drink thru it. And you can construct buildings or designate stockpiles on a brook. Channel right down thru it to expose the water for drinking.

[Shoku]

<nods>

Think of a "brook" as coming with a buggy grate over the entire top - a dwarf can fish thru it, but can't drink thru it. And you can construct buildings or designate stockpiles on a brook. Channel right down thru it to expose the water for drinking.

Well actually they can and often will drink through it- they just don't handle water source zones on it right, since you've placed a zone with no exposed water tiles.

...somebody with dwarves rushing over to the brook to drink should find out if they can make them stop drinking at a particular point in the stream with water source zones...

[Jim Groovester]

I've tried. They don't. They seem to stick within the same embark tile as the zone, for all the good that will do.