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[johnsmiththethird]

i got over 400wine and 30ale and the map is full of small lakes. but somehow some dwarves thirst to death. the first one who dies is flashing darkblue in the unitscreen. and is straving dehydrated drowsy miserable in the wound screen. but there is plenty of food drink and rooms for everyone.
so why is he dieing? and how can i prevent it?

[Leonance]

Are you using ramps or stairs for your dwarves up/down movement?

[IT 000]

Burrows

Or he has melancholy, it can happen from prolonged sadness or failure to complete an artifact.

[itg]

Are you sure he didn't trap himself somewhere? Maybe he was building a wall and got stuck on the wrong side?

[johnsmiththethird]

Are you using ramps or stairs for your dwarves up/down movement?

stairs, why?

Burrows

haven't used them

Or he has melancholy, it can happen from prolonged sadness or failure to complete an artifact.

shouldn't that appear in the wound-screen?

Are you sure he didn't trap himself somewhere? Maybe he was building a wall and got stuck on the wrong side?

he's a tanner & bonecarver and died one try near the dining hall but mostly in the quarters.


i uploaded the save: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5982186/save%20death.7z
first to die is "tanning bonecar" kindoren on the 13 granite 129.

[KtosoX]

I'm downloading your save right now, I'll update this thread once I come up with something.

edit: I found nothing really worth notice. You got a weird door policy, and 2 dorf are pretty pissed off, but everything seems normal.

[Mount]

Are you using ramps or stairs for your dwarves up/down movement?

stairs, why?

If you were using them, ramps can be kind of glitchy.  They will sometimes work fine, and sometimes dwarfs will consider them to be non-passable terrain.  Most perplexingly, they can sometimes start out operational and suddenly become unusable, even if you change NOTHING.  So basically, if you were using ramps, it's possible that your guy got trapped by a ramp that suddenly became nonfunctional.  Since you're using stairs, that's probably not the case.

[johnsmiththethird]

what does the blue and grey flashing in the unitscreen mean?

hmmm he is "running aroud babbling!"
ah now i get it, it's all in the logs. quite a while ago he got possesed and later went insane, so now he's starving to death.
looks like i have to replace the lvl17bonecrafter and lvl13 tanner

[Spitfire]

Are you using ramps or stairs for your dwarves up/down movement?

stairs, why?

If you were using them, ramps can be kind of glitchy.  They will sometimes work fine, and sometimes dwarfs will consider them to be non-passable terrain.  Most perplexingly, they can sometimes start out operational and suddenly become unusable, even if you change NOTHING.  So basically, if you were using ramps, it's possible that your guy got trapped by a ramp that suddenly became nonfunctional.  Since you're using stairs, that's probably not the case.

Are you sure about that? Can you please point me to a source in the wiki/forum/bugtracker? (Couldn't find anything myself)

[Putnam]

what does the blue and grey flashing in the unitscreen mean?

hmmm he is "running aroud babbling!"
ah now i get it, it's all in the logs. quite a while ago he got possesed and later went insane, so now he's starving to death.
looks like i have to replace the lvl17bonecrafter and lvl13 tanner

Oh, so he was insane?

-_-

[Corneria]

Are you using ramps or stairs for your dwarves up/down movement?

stairs, why?

If you were using them, ramps can be kind of glitchy.  They will sometimes work fine, and sometimes dwarfs will consider them to be non-passable terrain.  Most perplexingly, they can sometimes start out operational and suddenly become unusable, even if you change NOTHING.  So basically, if you were using ramps, it's possible that your guy got trapped by a ramp that suddenly became nonfunctional.  Since you're using stairs, that's probably not the case.

Are you sure about that? Can you please point me to a source in the wiki/forum/bugtracker? (Couldn't find anything myself)

Never happened to me, personally. I'd like some confirmation if possible, too.

[johnsmiththethird]

now it's for real, many of my dwarfs are thristy despite 260drinks and a build well which doesn't seem to work. they also won't use all the small lakes on the map. and why do they need so much water if they prefer alcohol? so how do i stop them from dehydrating to death?
save: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5982186/region5%20thirst.7z

[MarcAFK]

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

[Tharwen]

You could have a syndrome that destroys their mouths or something equally harsh. Usually large numbers of unexplained effects can be attributed to them somehow.

[Putnam]

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

Ironically, it's a 7-zip file.