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[greatorder]

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[FuzzyZergling]

You also need a free bucket and a mechanism. Did you have those?

[FuzzyZergling]

Where were you trying to build it?
Why types of chains/blocks did you have?

[Sphalerite]

Were the blocks and chain unused, in stockpiles, in locations which were reachable from where you were trying to build the bucket?  Did you accidentally screw up ramps when digging down and make the part of the fort with the well unaccessible from the part of the fort with the blocks and chain?

[ral]

I had a similar issue with a dwarf with a very minor injury almost dying of thirst in a glacial embark area before I managed to get a water source set up. Basically what I did is deconstruct the bed the dwarf was laying on which forced him to get up at which point he went to get a beer and was saved. I think I had to deconstruct all the beds in the hospital or undefine the hospital zone. Anyway I basically kicked him out of the hospital and he was back to drinking alcohol.

Do you have mechanisms built? I believe you need a block, a rope/chain, and a mechanism. Also make sure none of the stuff has somehow become forbidden. (z Stocks)

[Farmerbob]

  I'd check to be sure they aren't forbidden, or assigned for building jobs.

  Once a block or chain is assigned to a job, it's reserved and can't be used for anything else, just like raw stone for construction projects.

If you have any suspended animal chains, they will reserve a chain/rope

Same with suspended construction or workshops.

d-b-c I think is the command chain to get to mass claim.  Mass claim all your stockpiles with chains and blocks.  Then check for incomplete buildings, or make a couple more chains or blocks.

Then check for pathing.  That's really easy to do with burrows.  Create burrow at well, and create one at the storage site.  Put one dwarf in one of them, then after it gets there, take it out of that burrow and put it in the other.  Then send it back the other way.

If both of these tests don't resolve, look in your job listing to see if you have suspended buildings, or if your fort is small enough, just look aound for them.

[Starver]

It's not adding much, and not helping much given your tragedy has already occurred, but right next to the well (or as close as you can, and where there's still full access to the site), you can try to build (then fully cancel) the following, in turn:

• A soap-maker's workshop[1], to checking that you have both a bucket and one of the accepted 'block' items available.
• A restraint, to check that you have a rope/chain available.
• A lever, to check that you have a mechanism available.

I know it's just the block and chain it mentioned (which also rules out another strangeness I can think of which should have prompted you about everything, if not given another error altogether), but the above should work well.

Alternatively, designate four 1x1 stockpiles right next to the well site, each one dedicated to an individual component (you can zero the bin/barrel numbers), although you'll never be quite sure whether the dwarfs are just not hauling there, rather than that they cannot or they have nothing to haul.


Sorry, I'm also going down the "are you sure you've got them all available!?!" route, but it really is the most likely thing.  I've done worse, in the past, although once I knew for sure what I'd done I was then able to recognise the symptoms again.


[1] Asheries and Dyer's workshops would also work for the bucket, but also need a barrel (superfluous to this test), and I think only one of them needs a block or pre-block equivalent material, so you'd also need to (b)uild a (c)onstruction to get a handle on the block availability.

[slink]

Slabs are not the same as blocks.

[gtmattz]

sounds like a possible pathing issue?  Have you checked that dwarves can still access the area?  All it takes is inadvertently removing a ramp or stair and an area can become inaccessible.  Look around for missing ramps or stairs.  IF you are sure there is a good physical path, try locking, unpausing a few, then unlocking a door somewhere, this causes the engine to recalculate all paths, resolving the occasional pathing bug.

[Farmerbob]

Definitely smells like pathing.  If there is no valid path from a well building site to the storage for the well parts, I think it will do exactly as you have described.
Check your ramps and make sure they aren't sloping up into walls, for instance.  I did that to myself the other day when building a magma smithing facility.  Took me a couple minutes to figure it out, then I thumped myself in the head and made a stairway out rather than a ramp.

[Farmerbob]

Are you modding RAWs ?

[greycat]

You could also set up a water zone on the cavern lake, and let some dwarf fetch water directly from the lake in a bucket, to serve to the injured dwarf.  This is a temporary workaround until you can get the well up.

[Saiko Kila]

EDIT: on a new fort, I found an underground cavern with, instead of moss and fungus, grass. thought I'd mention it here rather than make another thread.

My 3rd cavern has both grass and fungus/moss, but mostly grass. Crundles live here. Strangely, the grass grows on dark tiles (because all tiles there are dark, of course). I don't think it's a bug. Or is it? The cavern also contains typical 3rd cavern underground trees.

My game is almost unmodded, not counting post-world gen changes. But I started that game in .18, and then was upgrading it to current .25, so if it is a bug, it was created under .18.

[Saiko Kila]

EDIT: on a new fort, I found an underground cavern with, instead of moss and fungus, grass. thought I'd mention it here rather than make another thread.

My 3rd cavern has both grass and fungus/moss, but mostly grass. Crundles live here. Strangely, the grass grows on dark tiles (because all tiles there are dark, of course). I don't think it's a bug. Or is it? The cavern also contains typical 3rd cavern underground trees.

My game is almost unmodded, not counting post-world gen changes. But I started that game in .18, and then was upgrading it to current .25, so if it is a bug, it was created under .18.

not like I'm complaining. it looks better than cave fungus and moss

That's for sure. I feel like at home. And these nice pixies only add charm to this place.

[Fredd]

Remember dwarves cannot construct on diagonals, but they can mine. Perhaps the dwarves have no room to build a well. Also, did you dig a straight 1 space horizontal shaft directly down from the surface. The water below your potential well might have froze up