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[Coriantumr]

My champions recently got in a tussle with a hydra. My dwarves were victorious but one of my champion marksdwarves had part of his leg ripped off and thus can't walk anymore.

Unfortunately, my dwarves have since completely scoured the battlefield of all refuse, spoils, spent weapons, etc ... but have left the poor guy sitting there in the middle of the field with part of his leg hanging off, getting rained on.

They will bring him food, and water, but for all they are worth they will not drag him back to a bed.

[Coriantumr]

Looks like almost a full month later someone noticed that he hadn't shown up for sparring lately and dragged him back to the fortress.

Now he's going to flip out and kill everyone.  

[isitanos]

Hmmm... it seems like health care should have a higher priority.

[Wiles]

I had a dwarf that had it's leg ripped off. He was near the main entrance to the fort and it was disturbing to watch all the dwarves wander by him as he fell in and out of conciousness. The dwarves didn't bother moving him to a bed and let him die of thirst.

I think it might have been because none of his remaining bodyparts were damaged, he was just missing his leg.

Dwarves need peg legs!

[thvaz]

I had to change some peasants in nurses, because my wounded dwarves were all dying of starvation or thirsty.

[ February 24, 2008: Message edited by: thvaz ]

[Thakh]

It's not particularly a priority issue.  I've had (just now) a dwarf lying unconscious with heavy internal injuries literally right next door from a meeting area with More Than Enough(tm) idlers (they had health care enabled too).  They happily walked around him in order to pick up other remains ( x(Giant cave spider Silk Sock)xs, mostly) from the long-gone battle.

However, assigning some peasants as nurses sounds like a good idea.

T

[Coriantumr]

I had thought of that ... I had dwarves with no other task than "Health Care" and yet they happily milled about with "No Job" for over a month.

It just happened to me again ... one of my Elite Marksdwarves took a bolt to the foot, and now can't walk ... and the battlefield has long since been cleaned up but he's still sitting out there, being assaulted by terrible vermin, sleeping on the rocks and being rained upon.

[Nesoo]

Aye, 'tis a good use for those worthless Soap Makers that invariably come in the immigrant waves. I turn off everything but Health Care and Burial and rename their profession to "Doctor" (though "Nurse" probably would be more accurate).

[Speeeedy]

Maybe you need more water buckets?

[Aquillion]

I think that when a dwarf sees someone seriously injured, unassisted, and they aren't involved in combat, they should drop what they're doing to help.  This could cause problems sometimes, but it's realistic and logical.

[Coriantumr]

No, it wasn't an issue of buckets, they would still bring him water ... about a mile away from the fortress in the middle of a battlefield. Only after about a month of time had passed did someone have the afterthought that he might recover better in a bed within the fortress.