0000528: clean self is totally broken. - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

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(0003448) Lazygun (reporter) 2010-04-14 05:39	I haven't seen that myself. My dwarves successfully clean themselves at the well. It does leave a mess on the floor which they eventually get around to cleaning up. A previous fort had neither well nor designated water source and my dwarfs did clean themselves in muddy pools. Well, when they didn't get interrupted by alligators! So, my experience is that cleaning self seems to be working. More investigation is necessary, I think, to work out what exactly are the factors causing the issues you see.

(0003449) Tarnak (reporter) 2010-04-14 06:01 edited on: 2010-04-14 06:02	The issue is with pets, they reinfect themselves at the same time/tile they drop it at. Once it starts it begins to pool and if your dwarves can't clean it up properly (which seems to be often) then it creates a cascading effect where your entire fortress does nothing but run to the nearest (typically messy) water source to clean themselves. If you create soap while this is going on you'll get spammed that the pet can't clean itself as well tying up all your soap with tasks. Also, it seems the smallest amount of insert bodily fluid here can spread infinitel,y regardless of how long it has stood undisturbed (should dry up I'd think).

(0003516) mhv3 (reporter) 2010-04-14 10:56	Are pets supposed to steal my soap to clean themselves with? I've got cats ,cows and horses trying to run off with the soap

(0003770) king doom (reporter) 2010-04-15 16:38	Okay, Just had this kick off again, and this time it was due to a minor cave in covering my dwarves in dust. They seemed to shed the covering when exposed to water, but it wasn't cleaned up, it dropped to the tile they were on. I think rain had something to do with it, since there was a mass of tiles around my entrance covered in piles of dust. The problem should be repeatable, just trigger a small collapse near some dwarves and see what they do. I'd test it myself but it's 12:30AM and I gotta go to bed. Stupid addictive game. grumble

(0003775) darkfred (reporter) 2010-04-15 17:42	duplicate of 296 I believe. With some broken pathing thrown in from pre .03.

(0003777) Malicus (reporter) 2010-04-15 18:11	Regarding wells, that's completely opposite what I've seen. I embarked next to an ocean, and when I built a well (which for some reason I dug to get water all the way from the second cavern), the dogs rushed to it and OPERATED IT THEMSELVES to clean themselves off after having previously killed a kobold. It should be noted that the well itself is on z100 and the water source is on z34, so the bucket was very visible.

(0003891) katyrnyn (reporter) 2010-04-16 12:55	I have observed this also, though it only started after I made soap. I found that forbidding the soap stopped the animal from trying to use it. Very easy to reproduce with soap, a dirty dog, and the outside sealed off with the only water source being a well. In addition to the "Area Inaccesible" soap spam from my war dogs, I also got a "Cancel Store in Stockpile: Too Injured" after one of the bloodied (but uninjured) dogs tried to clean himself with soap. Not sure what that was about but it seemed related.

(0003912) king doom (reporter) 2010-04-16 14:40	The cancel thing too injured sounds like it's an old squashed bug resurfacing. It's caused by an animal picking something up, realising it doesn't have the grasp tag and freaking out. Cats used to do it when they killed vermin and tried to take it to a dwarf.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-04-05 15:18	king doom	New Issue
2010-04-05 15:34	king doom	Tag Attached: Cleaning
2010-04-14 05:39	Lazygun	Note Added: 0003448
2010-04-14 06:01	Tarnak	Note Added: 0003449
2010-04-14 06:02	Tarnak	Note Edited: 0003449	View Revisions
2010-04-14 10:56	mhv3	Note Added: 0003516
2010-04-15 14:49	Jiri Petru	Note Added: 0003756
2010-04-15 15:08	Jiri Petru	Note Deleted: 0003756
2010-04-15 16:38	king doom	Note Added: 0003770
2010-04-15 17:29	Lac	Tag Attached: soap
2010-04-15 17:42	darkfred	Note Added: 0003775
2010-04-15 18:11	Malicus	Note Added: 0003777
2010-04-16 09:53	darkfred	Issue Monitored: darkfred
2010-04-16 12:55	katyrnyn	Note Added: 0003891
2010-04-16 14:04	darkfred	Tag Attached: contaminants
2010-04-16 14:40	king doom	Note Added: 0003912
2010-05-02 15:31	Logical2u	Relationship added	duplicate of 0000302
2010-05-02 15:31	Logical2u	Status	new => resolved
2010-05-02 15:31	Logical2u	Resolution	open => duplicate
2010-05-02 15:31	Logical2u	Assigned To	=> Logical2u
2010-06-09 06:46	Toady One	Status	resolved => closed