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[Name Lips]

I saw what looked like a unit of water in my food stockpile. Wondering if somebody dropped a bucket or something, I loo[k]ed at it, and it said "Water [9]." When I viewed its description, it said, "This is a stack of 9 water."

Interesting. Is it food? Can my dwarves eat it?

[Lazer Bomb]

I want one (nine)!

[FlexibleDogma]

quote:Originally posted by Name Lips:
<STRONG>I saw what looked like a unit of water in my food stockpile. Wondering if somebody dropped a bucket or something, I loo[k]ed at it, and it said "Water [9]." When I viewed its description, it said, "This is a stack of 9 water."

Interesting. Is it food? Can my dwarves eat it?</STRONG>

Wild and crazy guess: You have a wounded dwarf somewhere in your fort that is receiving food and water.  What I think happens is this:
1.  "Nurse" Dwarf fills a bucket with water.
2.  Nurse waters the injured dwarf.
3.  Nurse still has a bunch of water in the bucket, so they run and drop it in the food stockpile.
4.  (Eventually) The water gets treated as litter and removed.

I've only seen it with an injured dwarf, but I think it can most likely happen with prisoners as well.

[Bouchart]

I'm pretty sure this happens when a dwarf is hauling water to an injured dwarf an the task is interrupted by something.  The dwarf leaves the bucket where it's standing and the water spills out.

[Grek]

Tiles can only hold water [7]. A bucket can fit inside a tile. If a bucket can hold water [9], than the bucket is bigger than the tile it is in.

[Cavalcadeofcats]

It's compressed water. Ultra-high-pressure, using Dwarven beard-technology.

[Toady One]

Right now for the purposes of wells/buckets, 1 tile unit of water is 10 item units of water.  If you take less out (adv mode), I don't think it decreases the tile by anything, since it can't operate in units that fine.

[Bien]

I thought he found Hidden Fun Stuff, and it was the liquid Ice-9 )The kind that makes more of itself(

[Moogie]

Ah, so I'm not alone. =)

I also have a stack of water [9] in my food stockpile. It has been moved around a few times, but never dumped in any refuse piles or anything. I don't think my dwarves want to use it up, either.

Looks pretty cool, though. http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5107/9waterbl1.jpg

[i2amroy]

I have had this happen when I had extra buckets and two operating wells at the same time. For some reasons dwarves will get a "Store item in stockpile" job and take any extra water that has not been drunk out of a well bucket and place it in the food stockpile. After a while the water either disappears or is cleaned up by some dwarf.

[Devastator]

It isn't necessarily wells, either.  I had this happen without any wells in my fort, but I was filling a few ponds with buckets.