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Urist McDoctor,

I know that the mechanics of filling buckets is complicated.  I know that placing the bucket into the water which I have shown you is hard.  But please, please ask for help when you need it.  I know that sometimes you need to "Apply Cast", and sometimes there is no one around to get you your water.  But that doesn't mean you should walk out to the pond, stand there staring across the water for hours, and continue until you get too thirsty.  Please, Urist McDoctor, for the sake of your patients, don't be ashamed to ask for help.

And if that doesn't work, use a frakkin' splint.  I've got a hundred of them right there.

Yours,
God.

Forbid it, then unforbid it, to keep anyone who is trying to store it in a stockpile from doing so.  Without unpausing, try to build the cage.

Are you willing to mod the dwarven civ to make it more spartan?

Oh, man, threads.  Take it from a CS major:  If the game is not currently multi-threaded, it is unlikely to be so for years.  Figuring out which tasks can be done concurrently is a monumental problem, more along the lines of adding 3D graphics than making killable megabeasts.  Heck, that's as time-intensive as adding Z-levels.  Maybe more.

Well, my 20 z-level pump stack that I built without walls in order to have a huge fountain, predictably, flooded the banks of my river.  Since I'm on an aquifer (and they make SCARY amounts of water), the river stayed full and the pump stack kept pumping...  Then the water it pumped overflowed what I anticipated and the currents starting carrying random dwarves who were outside for a variety of tasks to their deaths.  *facepalm*

Fortunately, I anticipated this possibility and left a lever that could shut the system down.  It was blocked by 6/7 water.  *facepalm*

Finally, someone pathed right and got there and pulled the lever.  It dropped 60 tiles of 7/7 straight into the river, which had a pipe going straight into my fortress so my dwarves wouldn't have to go to the river and die of carp attack.  Well, it flooded and my fortress began to get wet.  *facepalm*

Fortunately, I had a reservoir for exactly this situation!  I pulled the appropriate levers and pathed the water into my reservoir.  Where, forgetfully, I had stored all my finished goods which were subsequently washed all over the place.  *facepalm*

So I tried to get the dorfs to release the water in the reservoir, but they never got around to the lever-work that would make that happen...  *facepalm*

So I deconstructed a wall piece.  This went badly, as it flowed down through a Open Space I didn't know was there, straight into my fortress.  *facepalm*

And that's my FP story.

So.  I keep getting the "No one considered traveling to your deathtrap" message, despite my relatively low casualty rate.  I lose roughly 2 dwarves a year.  I'm in the 11th year.  5 years ago, I lost 40 dwarves to a simultaneous Human / Dragon siege.

Has anyone else experienced a problem with very low casualty forgiveness?