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[flamoot]

From Udib & Tun thread, reproduced here as a question to those who know

I didn't realize my captain of the guard was a girl

The Troglodyte punched The captain of the guard in the right upper arm with
his right hand, bruising the muscle through the X(pig tail fiber cloak)X! 

The captain of the guard slashes The Troglodyte in the right upper leg with
her *copper short sword*, tearing apart the muscle!

Many nerves have been severed!

And providing a splash of blood on a nearby wall. Will a dwarf with
'cleaning' enabled get rid of that? Or does it go away on its own? Or does
it last forever?

Anyone

[Babylon]

pretty much lasts forever.

[flamoot]

Then what's Cleaning do and when do they do it?

[Babylon]

not often.  They will clean floors, not sure about walls, but most dwarves would rather have no job than clean.

filthy little bastards.

[Poindexterity]

if the dirty tile is indoor and NOT mud, dirt or sand, a dwarf with cleaning enabled will go get a bar of soap and clean it. no soap, no cleaning.

I like to take 2 dwarves and just make them do cleaning, so no one else in the fort has to fuck with it.

[flamoot]

Like how I dedicate nurses now is the only way I can get patients fed. Dedicated cleaners, I get it, except my soap stocks are vanishing since I ran out of jugs for oil and couldn't figure out what was wrong with my pressers for months, now I've switched to using tallow my army has rung up (something's wrong with my hunters) and anyway I'm very concerned about anything that might consume my soap ATM.

So I'm glad cleaning is rare. They do clean -themselves- pretty often though and I'm pretty sure that's where my soap went. I had > 40 at one point. Now I have like, three

So hopefully no-one -does- clean

[Sphalerite]

The cleaning job is triggered by a contamination - blood, mud, vomit, forgotten beast extract, etc - on a smoothed or constructed floor indoors.  Contamination on walls does not trigger the cleaning job, since a dwarf needs to stand in a the square with the contamination that is triggering the job, and wall squares can't be stood in.  However, I have heard it claimed (but haven't verified myself) that when a dwarf performs the cleaning job, they will also clean any contamination in squares adjacent to the square they're cleaning, so if a dwarf cleans a floor he will also clean up any contamination on walls right next to the floor.

[Quietust]

if the dirty tile is indoor and NOT mud, dirt or sand, a dwarf with cleaning enabled will go get a bar of soap and clean it. no soap, no cleaning.

Movie or it didn't happen - dwarves only use soap to clean themselves (or their patients), not the fortress.

However, I have heard it claimed (but haven't verified myself) that when a dwarf performs the cleaning job, they will also clean any contamination in squares adjacent to the square they're cleaning, so if a dwarf cleans a floor he will also clean up any contamination on walls right next to the floor.

I can confirm this, having observed it firsthand.

[MonkeyHead]

The cleaning job is triggered by a contamination - blood, mud, vomit, forgotten beast extract, etc - on a smoothed or constructed floor indoors.  Contamination on walls does not trigger the cleaning job, since a dwarf needs to stand in a the square with the contamination that is triggering the job, and wall squares can't be stood in.  However, I have heard it claimed (but haven't verified myself) that when a dwarf performs the cleaning job, they will also clean any contamination in squares adjacent to the square they're cleaning, so if a dwarf cleans a floor he will also clean up any contamination on walls right next to the floor.

I have seen such behaviour, but it does seem "erratic" - blood is cleaned up without fuss, but mud is hardly ever touched, especially the ring of muddy scunge around my hospital well which also has pus and vomit and blood in it.

[Gizogin]

I'm fairly certain dwarves only use soap for three things: cleaning themselves, cleaning wounds, and building elaborate skyscrapers.  For cleaning contaminants from floors and walls, they just wipe the area with their beards.

As for when they'll actually clean the fortress, I've noticed that they'll only clean indoor areas, which may or may not be sped up by the presence of a meeting area.  My entire dining room (also a statue garden) was encrusted with vomit after an unlucky encounter with a Forgotten Beast, and it didn't take my dwarves too long to get a considerable portion cleaned up.

[Loud Whispers]

if the dirty tile is indoor and NOT mud, dirt or sand, a dwarf with cleaning enabled will go get a bar of soap and clean it. no soap, no cleaning.

Movie or it didn't happen - dwarves only use soap to clean themselves (or their patients), not the fortress.

Yup. The dorfs used the water from my well to clean it. They also happened to drop all of their messy blood around my well, in some kind of circle of dirt.

[Poindexterity]

if the dirty tile is indoor and NOT mud, dirt or sand, a dwarf with cleaning enabled will go get a bar of soap and clean it. no soap, no cleaning.

Movie or it didn't happen - dwarves only use soap to clean themselves (or their patients), not the fortress.

the way my fort is set up, you have to go past the well to go pretty much anywhere, so it COULD be that all the dwarves i saw carrying soap were only taking it as far as the well.

[FuzzyZergling]

I'm fairly certain dwarves only use soap for three things: cleaning themselves, cleaning wounds, and building elaborate skyscrapers.  For cleaning contaminants from floors and walls, they just wipe the area with their beards.

As for when they'll actually clean the fortress, I've noticed that they'll only clean indoor areas, which may or may not be sped up by the presence of a meeting area.  My entire dining room (also a statue garden) was encrusted with vomit after an unlucky encounter with a Forgotten Beast, and it didn't take my dwarves too long to get a considerable portion cleaned up.

I can verify that having the to-be-cleaned area made a meeting place will get it cleaned much more quickly.

[Garath]

the way my fort is set up, you have to go past the well to go pretty much anywhere, so it COULD be that all the dwarves i saw carrying soap were only taking it as far as the well.

if you get a FB with poisonous blood or something fun like that, this set up can potentially infect your whole fort, as the blood gets cleaned from the dwarfs, to around the well, where everyone can step in it

[Poindexterity]

the way my fort is set up, you have to go past the well to go pretty much anywhere, so it COULD be that all the dwarves i saw carrying soap were only taking it as far as the well.

if you get a FB with poisonous blood or something fun like that, this set up can potentially infect your whole fort, as the blood gets cleaned from the dwarfs, to around the well, where everyone can step in it

yeah, long story, but that's kinda the point of this fort...