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[Gatleos]

My Dwarves stopped drinking my beer supply! I have about 90 barrels, but none of them will drink it. It isn't forbidden, either. Actually, a couple of Dwarves have gotten drinks, but almost all of them are ignoring it. Some of them are already dehydrated.

[Aspgren]

Save your game and then copy your savefolder.

Done? Ok. Now you can just sit back and watch them either ... 1. get their stuff together and drink. or 2. die of dehydration.

 If they do nr.1 then all is well and you can delete the copy folder laters. if they die then it's a serious problem that needs a fix.. good thing you got that extra save! for your own sake and for the sake of bug reports if need be.

[Quietust]

Do you have a diverse booze supply, or are you only brewing a single type of alcohol? If the latter, it's possible your dwarves are getting sick of always drinking the same thing and have decided that they'd rather drink water (which you presumably don't have available).

[Creamcorn]

Do you have a diverse booze supply, or are you only brewing a single type of alcohol? If the latter, it's possible your dwarves are getting sick of always drinking the same thing and have decided that they'd rather drink water (which you presumably don't have available).

If so, you may want to designate a safe area to drink.

[rodya_mirov]

Can they all actually path to it?  Check again.

It's really easy to sever the connection between two parts of your fortress.  I know dwarves get tired of the same booze but I have never seen them get tired of it to the point of choosing dehydration.  Slight negative thought at best.

[Double A]

Just grow some other crops, it's not all that hard 

[Gatleos]

I have a diverse booze supply, and plenty of it. It's all in a central stockpile, too. It's prolly just a bug. I'll copy the save and see what happens.

[Gatleos]

Yep. Everybody's dying of thirst. Every once in a while, someone will go get a drink, but almost everybody did nothing until they died. Does anybody have any idea what happened?

[Nil Eyeglazed]

When they did nothing, you mean they stood around, dehydrated, with no job?

You said dwarfs drank sometimes.  Was it only a few dwarfs who ever got around to drinking, or did everybody eventually drink?

You said everybody died.  Was it of thirst, or did your final dwarfs die instead of tantrums and melancholy?

You said you had 90-ish barrels of drink.  Did you have 90 barrels, or 90 drinks?  What was the population of your fortress at this time?

[Gatleos]

When it started, my population was about 75 and the drink supply (meaning number displayed in the status window) was about 90. The dwarves worked normally, some even had no job but still wouldn't drink. A total of about 5 dwarves eventually drank, but the rest are dying of thirst (i.e. not tantrums. They don't even "notice" they're dehydrated, they aren't unhappy, they just eventually die of thirst).

[Nil Eyeglazed]

What seems likely to me is that you didn't have enough barrels of drink.

If you have 90 drinks, you might only have 4 or 5 barrels of drink.  When one dwarf has tasked a barrel for drinking, no other dwarf can drink from that barrel.  So it's sort of like you really only had 4 stacks of drinks for 75 dwarfs, which isn't nearly enough.  Everybody else was waiting around for the barrel to become free, and dehydrated before they got their turn.

90 drinks is sufficient for 10 dwarfs.  It isn't enough for 75.

If this is the reason your dwarfs weren't drinking, it's hard to recover from.  If there's a source of water on your map, you may be able to buy some time by breaking into it.  You're going to need a lot more barrels and a lot more booze as soon as possible.