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Author Topic: My dwarf is so stupid he locked himself in the food stockpile and starved  (Read 4391 times)

Voligne

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That is what is happening at this very moment, there is food not that far away and he is standing there hunting vermin for food as opposed to eating meat out of the meat barrel, he is also dying of thirst and there is RUM and a BROOK for him to drink out of, whats going on?
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Re: My dwarf is so stupid he locked himself in the food stockpile and starved
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2009, 11:28:01 pm »

is the stockpile forbidden? did he get locked inside a workshop?
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Voligne

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Re: My dwarf is so stupid he locked himself in the food stockpile and starved
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2009, 11:38:04 pm »

I had him dig a long tunnel, it was on the megaproject site with the spires. I wanted to set up an underground farm, and build skyway like structures bridging the canyon/chasm. He got to the waterfall, then he got thirsty and hungry and swiftly descended into starvation. It also complained that I ran out of Andesite but I clearly saw lots and lots of rocks of it.
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Re: My dwarf is so stupid he locked himself in the food stockpile and starved
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2009, 12:27:54 am »

Is he insane?
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Re: My dwarf is so stupid he locked himself in the food stockpile and starved
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2009, 08:05:55 am »

You arent helping me figure out what happened.

He was digging out Andesite, which was so far the only non-economical stone I had found (Using maydays GFX mod) He dug down to the waterfall of the mega-construct site and then he would continue to dig but he spontaneously became hungry and thirsty. So remembering I had accidentaly embarked without extra food or seeds I look up, we have plenty of food and rum and wine so I wonder why he won't go up to eat. Then when I try to make doors it complains that there is no Andesite, yet I see plenty of it in the tunnels the miner dug.
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Re: My dwarf is so stupid he locked himself in the food stockpile and starved
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2009, 08:07:41 am »

.: The simplest solution is that -

The miner dug into an unconnected piece of land and got stuck.

Or you accidentally restricted the only passage or something.
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Re: My dwarf is so stupid he locked himself in the food stockpile and starved
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2009, 08:13:11 am »

maybe I accidentaly restricted passage down the tunnel, I was building a wall over my initial hole in the ground and my fingers were especially clumsy with the keyboard, that day >.<

I accidentaly dug fortifications instead of floor.
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Re: My dwarf is so stupid he locked himself in the food stockpile and starved
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2009, 10:02:57 am »

I found out what had happened, I was building a tower around my entrance hole, I apparently had accidentaly walled in my miner. I build a floor and it covered up my down staircase >.<
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Re: My dwarf is so stupid he locked himself in the food stockpile and starved
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2009, 02:52:42 pm »

I've done that when digging out magma access chambers before. Always be careful of what's underneath the area you floor over, it could get funtm.
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