0004934: Dwarves will starve/die of thirst rather than attempt to path through even a single tile of deep water.

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004934	Dwarf Fortress	Dwarf Mode -- Jobs, Eating/Drinking	public	2011-10-21 11:45	2011-12-07 09:45

Reporter	Telarin	Assigned To	~~user6~~
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	0.31.25

Summary	0004934: Dwarves will starve/die of thirst rather than attempt to path through even a single tile of deep water.
Description	While I understand that dwarves apparently don't particularly like water, it seems like they should at least attempt to brave a single tile of swimming if they are trapped and otherwise unable to reach food/booze rather than standing and starving to death.
Tags	AI

Drazinononda 2011-10-21 16:23 reporter ~0018873	Since dwarves with "Dabbling" or less skill in swimming drown in 7/7 water, and since naturally occurring water is almost exclusively 7/7, this is probably a feature to keep your dwarves from killing themselves off through sheer stupidity (their favorite suicide method, btw).

Kogut 2011-10-22 12:19 reporter ~0018876 Last edited: 2011-10-22 12:20	Dwarves will ''die of thirst'' rather than attempt to path through even a single tile of deep ''water''. AFAIK dwarves are able to drink water.

Telarin 2011-10-24 06:13 reporter ~0018903	@Drazinononda - You are probably right, however, maybe there should be a "I'm gonna die anyway and at least there is a chance of not starving to death if I try to swim" check made at some point. @Kogut - You would think so, but again, this does not always seem to be the case. I think in the fortress in question I probably had orders set to drink from zone only, so though wouldn't drink from just anywhere. Though not really relevant to this particular behavior, I will double check that next time it occurs.

~~user6~~ 2011-12-07 09:45 ~0019076	This is expected behavior for now due to the limitations of the pathfinding system.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-10-21 11:45	Telarin	New Issue
2011-10-21 16:23	Drazinononda	Note Added: 0018873
2011-10-22 12:19	Kogut	Note Added: 0018876
2011-10-22 12:20	Kogut	Note Edited: 0018876
2011-10-24 06:13	Telarin	Note Added: 0018903
2011-10-25 13:57	Kogut	Tag Attached: AI
2011-12-07 09:43	~~user6~~	Tag Attached: Intentional/Expected?
2011-12-07 09:43	~~user6~~	Tag Detached: Intentional/Expected?
2011-12-07 09:45	~~user6~~	Note Added: 0019076
2011-12-07 09:45	~~user6~~	Status	new => resolved
2011-12-07 09:45	~~user6~~	Resolution	open => no change required
2011-12-07 09:45	~~user6~~	Assigned To	=> user6