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[K4el]

My current fort has a sizable defensive presence on the surface neccesitated by the terrain. Some battles have occured with in the room that comprise that structure and there has been some blood spiled.

Non of my dwarves seem to have enough pride in the structure to bother cleaning it. It's starting to bug me really as it's a rather impressive fort for something built above ground.

Anyone have a fix or any recomendations?

[Proteus]

Dwarves see no reason to clean overground structures...they are only interested ina clean underground

Without using external tools, you won´t get the overground structures cleaned.
AFAIK there is a tool which will clean all floor tiles on the map from blood and other fluids...
I´m sure someone will mention its name in  this thread

[K4el]

Dwarves see no reason to clean overground structures...they are only interested ina clean underground

Without using external tools, you won´t get the overground structures cleaned.
AFAIK there is a tool which will clean all floor tiles on the map from blood and other fluids...
I´m sure someone will mention its name in  this thread

So what you're saying is it's time to seal the hatches and flush out the blood with water?

[FleshForge]

The thing is, water won't wash away blood, it will spread it EVERYWHERE.  If you want to get rid of persistent blood you probably should take a look at the "dfcleanmap" utility included with DFHack.  It only cleans up blood/pus/barf and leaves mud alone.

[K4el]

bleh... thanks...

Wish blood and vomit would "rot" away properly.

[Hans Lemurson]

bleh... thanks...

Wish blood and vomit would "rot" away properly.

And preferably not while still inside the creature.

[FleshForge]

Fun DF blood trivia:  Drowning creatures bleed everywhere.  Falling creatures that explode into a dozen pieces do not!  Apparently, their blood gets vaporized on impact, or perhaps it becomes superdense and falls through the floor!

[veok]

Hm. I noticed my dwarves weren't hauling refuse within their aboveground construction. I bet the same code is at work there.

[KrazyDocK]

Outdoors (or more correctly, above ground) will not be cleaned by dwarven labour.  But rain will clean it.  If the rain can reach it.  Part of my fort is above ground, including a well.  The well area often gets bloody and vomity, so I removed the roof over a small area centered around the well.  It eventually, slowly, gets clean.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Hm. I noticed my dwarves weren't hauling refuse within their aboveground construction. I bet the same code is at work there.

No, there's an option in the {o}rders - {r}efuse screen that's set to ignore outside refuse by default.

[veok]

Hm. I noticed my dwarves weren't hauling refuse within their aboveground construction. I bet the same code is at work there.

No, there's an option in the {o}rders - {r}efuse screen that's set to ignore outside refuse by default.

Yeah, but it's not outside. It's inside aboveground instead of inside underground.

[Quietust]

Fun DF blood trivia:  Drowning creatures bleed everywhere.

That's news to me - I've drowned hundreds of goblins and trolls in Shadelabors, and they didn't leave any blood.

[FleshForge]

Mine leave huge floods of blood, barf and pus, I dunno what might be different.  I'm sure they were unwounded too, they were captured without combat in cage traps and then released via lever before drowning.

[Valkyrie]

Dwarves see no reason to clean overground structures...they are only interested ina clean underground

Without using external tools, you won´t get the overground structures cleaned.
AFAIK there is a tool which will clean all floor tiles on the map from blood and other fluids...
I´m sure someone will mention its name in  this thread

So what you're saying is it's time to seal the hatches and flush out the blood with water?

If 'sealing the hatches' as it were is actually practical, magma will successfully clean the contaminants without spreading them everywhere like water.  It's just usually a rather large project to get the above-ground (well, 'light') portion of the fort seal-able, get the magma to it, and have a drainage system to get the magma out, and have it all be setup to be reused whenever the bloody mess gets too great.

You can also build on top of the bloody tiles - dirt roads work well for this, but just about anything will do.  All a matter of which 'solution' is the least of a pita to implement.


And my drowning victims (usually accidental, rather than intentional) are usually bloodless, too.  The area gets very bloody if there's combat while the creature is in the water - either combat at the shoreline knocking people into the water, or archers wounding the drowning group.  But for straight drowning, it's usually completely clean in my experience.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Hm. I noticed my dwarves weren't hauling refuse within their aboveground construction. I bet the same code is at work there.

No, there's an option in the {o}rders - {r}efuse screen that's set to ignore outside refuse by default.

Yeah, but it's not outside. It's inside aboveground instead of inside underground.

Dwarves cosider "Above Ground" to mean "Outside" for all intents and purposes. The actual inside/outside distinction only matters for whether trees will grow there, assuming they can. Otherwise, "outside" means above ground.