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[ToxicFrog]

So, I have a setup like this some distance to the north of my fortress:

code:

  ......
  ......
  ......
     X1
<..................
                  .
  .................
  .
  .    .o.o...
  .+..+.......
  X2   .......
  _
  _
  _
  _
  V

The square marked < leads to the outside; V leads to the rest of the fortress; + is a door (passable and pet-passable); o is a lever.

So, I tell my dwarves to attach the two floodgates to the two levers. They run up to attach the first mechanisms to the floodgates, and this goes fine. They then bring up the second mechanisms for the levers, drop them on the levers, and...wander away.
The dwarf responsible for floodgate 2 was never heard from again. The one responsible for floodgate 1, however, adopted a little routine:

- walk north to the lab.
- stand in front of floodgate 1 (which is what he's meant to be hooking up). Remain here for several days, showing no interest in the lever, which is the only part of the assembly that still needs work.
- become thirsty.
- walk all the way back to base and drink from the well rather than drinking from the river just outside. This takes several days too.
- repeat from start.

He did this for a year and a half, walking endlessly back and forth between the floodgate and the well, completely ignoring the lever - he left the mechanisms sitting on top of it, but that's all. I tried various means of getting it done - digging new paths to the lever in case it was a pathfinding issue, digging a second path into the room behind the floodgate in case he wanted access to both sides of it, cancelling and restarting the job, assigning a different dwarf...nothing worked.

Eventually I lost patience and ordered the self destruct system activated, so I'm afraid that while I have a world file, I don't have a savegame.

toad-edit: code-tag

[ August 28, 2006: Message edited by: Toady One ]

[Toady One]

Maybe I'll find something when I look at lever linking times...