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[VerdantSF]

What's your secret?  My hospital only uses splints and never does anything with the plaster .

[Sphalerite]

There are two bugs with casts, but they both can be worked around:

First, gypsum powder is required, but your dwarves will not put gypsum powder in the hospital with the other hospital supplies.  This is not actually a problem because hospital supplies don't actually need to be stored in the hospital.  If you have a gypsum powder stockpile somewhere else, your dwarves will use the gypsum powder stored there.

Secondly, a dwarf who is trying to apply a cast needs a bucket of water.  Getting water for casts is bugged, the bone doctor will go to the water source and stare at it forever while trying to figure out how to get water.  If you can arrange to have some buckets lying around with water in them, your bone doctor will use those and successfully apply casts.

[VerdantSF]

I suppose I could just unzone a corner of the hospital and put the powder there .  As for the buckets of water, how do I go about having buckets of water on reserve?

[Ubiq]

I suppose I could just unzone a corner of the hospital and put the powder there .  As for the buckets of water, how do I go about having buckets of water on reserve?

When they give water, dwarves use one out of the ten units of water a bucket will hold and will leave the rest untouched. Barring micromanaging the bucket situation to empty them, most forts should have plenty of water buckets lying around.

If you want to guarantee water buckets near the hospital, one method is to dig out a small (say, 4x4) room under the hospital. Create a garbage dump zone and designate a bunch of stone to be dumped. After they finish, reclaim the stone and build a mason/craftsdwarf workshop. Pick a task (blocks are useful) and set it to repeat. The dwarf working there will get thirsty after a while and other dwarves will bring him/her water, which will leave the buckets sitting there full of 9/10 water.

[UristMcDwarf]

Or designate a pond without channeling out a place.
They'll get water, realize theres no where to put it, and ditch the bucket with some water in it.

[Vercingetorix]

Once the doctor gets stuck at the well, forbidding all buckets and then unforbidding them will make it work; they do fill the bucket, but they don't know how to take it from the well to make the plaster cast.  Doing this will make it work.

[VerdantSF]

Thanks all!

[Hans Lemurson]

So the lesson here is that doctors should tend to the sick and keep away from the well?

[Firnagzen]

*smack*

[Tastysaurus Rex]

So the lesson here is that doctors should tend to the sick and keep away from the well?

*ahem*

[Hans Lemurson]

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.

That joke just fell right into my lap.