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[chairo]

Hey. I have a hospital all set up, but the problem is, that I have about ten dwarves (Out of fifty) who are eternally resting in the beds, requiring other dwarves to feed them; However, none of these ten dwarves are wounded. At all. The only thing even wanting a diagnosis is a damn dog. De-constructing the beds knocks them out of their resting trance, and they go back to work, but it's only a temporary solution, as the other dwarves just come in and continue resting on them when I rebuild the beds. I have bedrooms, and about 2/3 of the dwarves have bedrooms (I checked, the resters have their own bedrooms). Obviously, I could just de-construct the hospital entirely, but that is a very dumb idea, yes?

[jaxad0127]

Dwarfs will sometimes choose an unowned bed to sleep in, even if they have beds they own! In the past, they would even choose beds owned by other dwarfs. Just make sure you have more beds than you need in the hospital and dorms.

[Krelos]

It's not that they are resting forever in the beds and need to be fed and watered, its that dwarves will feed and water any sleeping dwarf that is hungry or thirsty. They often go to sleep, then while sleeping become thirsty/hungry, and a dwarf comes to care for them.
They sleep in the hospital because it's closer than their own room, they do the same thing with barracks' that are closer.

I don't want to outright say that you aren't experiencing some hospital-of-eternal-sleep bug, but that's what happens in my fortress.

[Lytha]

In my most recent fortress, i couldn't build a hospital for the first 3 years. (Aquifer + badlands + minimalistic embark loadout + nanofortress... yeah well.)

During these first 3 years, my dwarves encountered various buzzards and the tame animals could access the meeting zone and started fights there (my fault.) Anyway, a couple of my dwarves got hurt.

So, when I finally built the hospital, I had immediately dwarves in the beds, even before I had put in some coffers for the hospital goods. They got their diagnosis alright, but now they needed some stitching and bandaging.

However, if I had just given them a quick glance, it would have looked like what the OP describes: dwarves resting for no reason in the hospital, occupying the beds and being annoying. Only a closer glance at the health screen and some sideways scrolling revealed that these dwarves had their hands cut open and some fingers smashed.

So, I could imagine in the OP's scenario that the diagnosis was done, but the dwarves needing some treatment.


It helps to give every single of your dwarves the medical jobs, by the way. Makes the stitching being done a lot faster.

[Zesty]

In my experience in 0.31.25, if Dwarves have their own bedroom, they don't sleep in the hospital... even if the Hospital is far closer than their own bedrooms.