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0000953Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Jobs, Activity Zonespublic2010-04-10 15:422010-06-09 06:46
ReporterSpiritbw 
Assigned ToFootkerchief 
PriorityurgentSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionno change required 
PlatformPCOSWindows 7OS Version
Product Version0.31.02 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0000953: Dwarfs not hauling water.
DescriptionTried setting up zones from where to haul the water form and where to put it, but they will not try to fill ponds for example, they will justs tand around reporting no job.
Steps To ReproduceSet a zone to gather water at a river, set a zone at a made pond or hole for watering a feild in the floor below.
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2010-04-10 15:42SpiritbwNew Issue
2010-04-10 15:53Logical2uNote Added: 0002663
2010-04-10 16:11GauHelldragonNote Added: 0002669
2010-04-10 21:18SpiritbwNote Added: 0002702
2010-04-11 00:26FootkerchiefIssue Monitored: Footkerchief
2010-04-11 08:00HunterZNote Added: 0002800
2010-04-11 11:20FootkerchiefNote Added: 0002844
2010-04-11 11:47SpiritbwNote Added: 0002847
2010-04-11 16:14kaefermelderNote Added: 0002897
2010-04-11 16:14kaefermelderNote Edited: 0002897bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0002897#r932
2010-04-11 16:18kaefermelderNote Edited: 0002897bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0002897#r933
2010-04-12 10:31WolfenNote Added: 0003079
2010-04-12 10:48WolfenIssue Monitored: Wolfen
2010-04-12 10:49WolfenNote Edited: 0003079bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0003079#r996
2010-04-13 21:38FootkerchiefNote Added: 0003397
2010-04-13 21:40FootkerchiefNote Edited: 0003397bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0003397#r1105
2010-04-17 15:18WolfenNote Added: 0004000
2010-04-17 16:21FootkerchiefNote Added: 0004004
2010-04-17 16:21FootkerchiefStatusnew => resolved
2010-04-17 16:21FootkerchiefResolutionopen => no change required
2010-04-17 16:21FootkerchiefAssigned To => Footkerchief
2010-04-17 17:18WolfenIssue End Monitor: Wolfen
2010-06-09 06:46Toady OneStatusresolved => closed

Notes
(0002663)
Logical2u   
2010-04-10 15:53   
Do you have buckets?
Also you may want to try channelling a hole in the surface of the brook, if you are designating a brook to gather water on.
(0002669)
GauHelldragon   
2010-04-10 16:11   
you also have to set the pond to "fill"
(0002702)
Spiritbw   
2010-04-10 21:18   
How does one set the pond to fill?
(0002800)
HunterZ   
2010-04-11 08:00   
Spiritbw: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:Activity_zone#Pit.2FPond [^]
(0002844)
Footkerchief   
2010-04-11 11:20   
Does that clear things up, Spiritbw?
(0002847)
Spiritbw   
2010-04-11 11:47   
Well, all the water on my map must be salty or something. Tried setting things up, got it set to pond(it SHIFT and p to set preferances for the zoneGah!>.<) but setting up a water source, even on the river at the level at the surface gives me no tiles for water gathering.
(0002897)
kaefermelder   
2010-04-11 16:14   
(edited on: 2010-04-11 16:18)
my dwarves get water from a murky pool to fill the pond, without me designating any water source zone. Do you have a murky pool? Then try deleting the zone on the river/any zones? Also note that you do need to designate the edge, not the actual water tiles. Maybe if you have set zone drinking only plus a defunct water zone, you are blocking yourself?
(0003079)
Wolfen   
2010-04-12 10:31   
(edited on: 2010-04-12 10:49)
I just got the same problem. Underground farm plots with a channeled hole above set as a pond Several murky pools nearby but none of them show any squares of water source when constructing a zone over/around them. I didn't get a salt water warning upon embark that I can remember and I don't have any coastal water on the map.

Is there a way to see if a pool is salt or fresh after embark?
(0003397)
Footkerchief   
2010-04-13 21:38   
(edited on: 2010-04-13 21:40)
Yeah, if you create a zone over a pond and it has no water source tiles, that means it's salt water. It would be nicer if the game just told you it's salt water. I posted a suggestion to that effect: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=53964.0 [^]
(0004000)
Wolfen   
2010-04-17 15:18   
Thanks Footkerchief. :)

That would be a nice addition to the water description.
(0004004)
Footkerchief   
2010-04-17 16:21   
I'm closing this one since it doesn't seem to be an actual bug so much as a shortcoming.