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Author Topic: thrist strike?  (Read 1415 times)

MarcAFK

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Re: thrist strike?
« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2011, 12:43:58 am »

... what format is this? My 7zip doesn't recognise the compression method :(

Ironically, it's a 7-zip file.
Ironically enough installing a new version of 7zip did the trick.
Soi had a look at the save and, holy shit there's alot of pissed off dwarves, mostly "Disgusted by miasma" or "disgusted by the dead".
I can see dwarves drinking readily enough, and can't find anyone thirsty because of all the unhappy blue down arrows everywhere.
You might want to clean up the dwarf chunks in your meeting area and maybe get rid of the ghosts, and mandrill chunks. That might help your fort's general well being and maybe avoid the inevitable tantrum spiral.
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They're nearly as bad as badgers. Build a couple of anti-buzzard SAM sites marksdwarf towers and your fortress will look like Baghdad in 2003 from all the aerial bolt spam. You waste a lot of ammo and everything is covered in unslightly exploded buzzard bits and broken bolts.

ImBocaire

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Re: thrist strike?
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2011, 12:48:26 am »

...Aren't the unhappy arrows red, while blue means thirst?
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Re: thrist strike?
« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2011, 01:08:07 am »

You could be right, i was just looking at the lack of a status message saying "thursty" :/
EDIT:
Ok i had another look, I think your problem is that you only have 3 barrels of booze, and at any one time there would be more than 3 dorf's who need a drink, dorf's don't exactly line up an an orderly queue so when someone needs a drink and all the barrells are occupied they assume there is nothing to drink and go back to work for a while, also factor in the waiting time for access to a barrel, if one guy on the corner of the map notices a free barrel, he basically claims it and it becomes forbidden to use untill he hauls his ass across the map to it,despite the fact that 20 dorf's could quaff from it in the meantime...
I suggest that your water source might be similar, maybe make a narrow channel running along side it with lots of watersource zones along is so lots of dorf's can use it... and your pools might be murky and nobody wants to use em.
... but yeah anyway, you  need WAY MORE BOOZE!
EDIT 2:
Your river water and murky pools seem undrinkable (when you make a zone area over water if it shows 0 next to water source it's undrinkable), however your cavern water is good, i zoned a huge water source on your cavern lake (remember to include the ground your guys will stand on to drink) and literally 120 dorf's stampeded down there (eventually, it's a fair hike) to sate their thirst.
« Last Edit: August 07, 2011, 01:41:11 am by MarcAFK »
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They're nearly as bad as badgers. Build a couple of anti-buzzard SAM sites marksdwarf towers and your fortress will look like Baghdad in 2003 from all the aerial bolt spam. You waste a lot of ammo and everything is covered in unslightly exploded buzzard bits and broken bolts.
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