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two doctors are stuck
« on: August 05, 2010, 03:58:05 pm »
Two of my doctors are stuck at a water source.  Their jobs are both "apply cast".  I think the dwarves they were trying to treat are dead.

I tried drafting them, removing the water source zone, and turning off their medical labors, but nothing has unstuck them.  Any ideas?
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2010, 04:04:32 pm »
Cavein, the answer to life's problems.

You could also release something dangerous nearby.
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2010, 04:08:26 pm »
Forbid all gypsum plaster to prevent it happening again

Dumping the bucket they are currently carrying should break their freeze
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2010, 04:09:51 pm »
Actually, I just "forbid" the buckets and they unfroze.  Thanks!
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2010, 04:13:05 pm »
??!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The same idiots are stuck again at the new water source!
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2010, 04:14:03 pm »
!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's the gypysm plaster!!!!11
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2010, 04:15:04 pm »
but hopefully not !!Gypsum Plaster!!
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2010, 04:15:59 pm »
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(!!!!)
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2010, 04:23:46 pm »
Are there any extra buckets lying around with water? I forbade all empty buckets and forced them to use those for cast-making, since I had a ton lying around thanks to caring for a pair of bedridden dwarves for several years.
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2010, 04:24:31 pm »
So you're suggesting that I forbid ALL the plaster?  And then unforbid it?  Or just leave it forbidden?  I kinda want to use my plaster.
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2010, 04:26:24 pm »
From what I've heard, all plaster is bugged.  Wooden splints seem to work fine anyways.
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2010, 04:28:10 pm »
Yeah, forbid all plaster, leave it that way. Consider it a work-around for a bug.
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2010, 04:30:31 pm »
I've had casts made properly in the past.  Now, it seems that if I have any unforbidden buckets my doctors will get stuck filling them.  I will try forbidding buckets and plaster, wait for job cancellation, and then reclaim buckets.
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2010, 04:47:44 pm »
Forbid all buckets.  When you un-forbid them the doctors will complete the Apply Cast task normally.
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Re: two doctors are stuck
« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2010, 05:23:05 pm »
some guy in the forum came up with this work-around. he's pretty cool.

1. designate a pond
2. wait until someone fills a bucket and goes to fill the pond
3. stop filling the pond and forbid all other buckets. (make him drop a filled bucket)
4. the doctors will pick up the filled bucket and apply the cast.

this is too tedious for me, though, so i just dumped all plaster and they're happily using splints instead. the bug is that they can't fill the buckets on their own when they're going to apply the cast
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