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Virex

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How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« on: April 03, 2010, 06:33:34 pm »
Pretty simple question actualy. I just recently had 4 of my 19 dwarves suicide at work because they refused to go for a drink. What's the best way to deal with this? I'm currently resorting to giving my whole fortress a day off ever so often, but it's a lot of work to cancel all the orders that are on repeat...
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Re: How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2010, 06:38:47 pm »
How bizarre. My dwarves continue working while tired/thirsty/etc, but they eventually quit and go take care of it. Are they drinking booze or water?
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Re: How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2010, 06:54:22 pm »
Quote from: IronyOwl on April 03, 2010, 06:38:47 pm
Are they drinking booze or water?

Neither, that's the problem. Though I do have a stockpile of booze. Only problem I can think of would be that all barrels were occupied by other drinkers.

Edit: just had another dwarf die of thirst. He was completely melancholic after losing his friends in the aforementioned accident...
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Re: How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2010, 07:25:43 pm »
The best way I've found to combat this is just to keep your orders small. Only mine out small sections of cavern or order a few hallways smoothed. My hungry/thirsty/tired dwarfs seems to go and rest themselves in between different sections of work.
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Re: How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2010, 09:26:33 pm »
You could probably do it by having a "holiday" alert that restricts everyone to the dining hall and booze/food stockpiles.
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Re: How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2010, 09:54:12 pm »
Odd, in mine they work to a crit like state then go running for whatever they need.
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Re: How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2010, 10:05:38 pm »
Mine also stop working when they've been hungry/thirsty for a while... the only time when someone got really close to dehydration was when a military dwarf beat a mountain goat with his training axe and got a bit carried away. The beast just wouldn't die and the axedwarf wouldn't stop until I explicitly ordered him to do so.
The boozepile was always pretty close to the working areas, if that matters. Maybe dwarves decide to work for longer, if the booze is far away or something... if there was such thing as dwarven logic, I wouldn't understand it anyway...
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Re: How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2010, 08:36:23 am »
Suicide? Mine just pass out. Maybe they would drink if you created small booze stockpiles everywhere.
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Re: How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2010, 08:39:13 am »
Quote from: tweinst on April 03, 2010, 09:26:33 pm
You could probably do it by having a "holiday" alert that restricts everyone to the dining hall and booze/food stockpiles.
Good idea actually. Shabbat for Armok!
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Re: How to keep your dwarves from suiciding at work?
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2010, 09:23:44 am »
Quote from: Virex on April 03, 2010, 06:54:22 pm

Edit: just had another dwarf die of thirst. He was completely melancholic after losing his friends in the aforementioned accident...

Strange, i thought that would encourage them to drink alcohol.
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