Topic: Dwarves drown themselves when getting water on a down ra (Read 570 times)

darkfred · « **on:** November 02, 2007, 11:17:00 am »

I made a nice indoor lake on my freezing level so the dwarves could have a recreational area. Filled it nearly completely with what ground water I had available during my annual 1 week thawing, then designated it as a watering zone.
My dwarves immediately rushed over and drowned themselves. Nearly half of them drowned.
I believe this is because the sides of the lake were slopes and the lake was not completely filled yet. most areas were 4/7 - 5/7. Stupid dwarves.

edit: i filled it BEFORE designating it as a watering zone

[ November 02, 2007: Message edited by: darkfred ]

Seryntas · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2007, 11:30:00 am »

My favorite part about bugs like these is that it seems like they're the only time you can get a majority of the dwarves in your fortress to do something. If there's a workshop to unclutter or blood to clean up, they've always got something better to do. But a dangerous, monster-infested area to pull a single shoe off a deceased dwarf in, or some cunning new way to drown yourself? "I'm there!"

Pacho · « **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2007, 12:15:00 pm »

Now you can forbid items to prevent that from happening though.

Sean Mirrsen · « **Reply #3 on:** November 02, 2007, 12:53:00 pm »

Well, I've had a miner drop down into a pool (was trying to mine obsidian between magma and a pool), and he successfully mined out a ramp and fled, despite the pool being almost full.

Shadowlord · « **Reply #4 on:** November 02, 2007, 01:13:00 pm »

On a semi-related note, I gave all my starting dwarves 10 points in swimming.

And then all the water on the map evaporated by summer 1051 and never came back. (It was a volcano site; It had murky pools full of water when I arrived)

[ November 02, 2007: Message edited by: Shadowlord ]

RPB · « **Reply #5 on:** November 02, 2007, 01:18:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by Sean Mirrsen:
<STRONG>Well, I've had a miner drop down into a pool (was trying to mine obsidian between magma and a pool), and he successfully mined out a ramp and fled, despite the pool being almost full.</STRONG>

Oddly enough, my miners have no problems navigating flooded rooms, but everyone else gets stuck if the ramps/stairs are more than halfway flooded. Apparently picks act as floatation devices.

Sean Mirrsen · « **Reply #6 on:** November 02, 2007, 01:30:00 pm »

I think they're more of a ballast. Or oars.

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