0000425: Dwarves Not Cleaning Blood - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

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(0002606) MysteriousAges (reporter) 2010-04-10 11:01	There were a couple of pools of racoon blood in my dining hall. Now the dining hall is almost completely filled with splatters of blood, and it's growing. It's been like that for at least a couple seasons.

(0004082) barconis (reporter) 2010-04-18 11:38	It seems like dwarves would rather have no job at all and track blood around than to spend the time doing cleaning tasks. Sometimes a cleaning task does get done, but there are tiles near my well with 70 blood smears stacked on them that never get cleaned. They just get a pile of loamy sand sprinkled on top.

(0009751) Creidieki (reporter) 2010-07-07 16:52	This might be bug 0001140? Or it may have been fixed with the pathfinding problems. If you're still experiencing this in 31.08, could you upload a save to http://dffd.wimbli.com/ [^] ?

(0010778) Niveras (reporter) 2010-07-21 07:54	My experience with this issue is that cleaning jobs just aren't being generated frequently (e.g. inactive in the job list waiting for someone to pick it up, like you see with hauling tasks or workshops tasks you've added). It seems like there needs to be a dwarf idling or seeking a new job very close - a distance of only a couple tiles - to the contaminants before a cleaning job will be generated, after which a dwarf will head over and clean the 3x3 block. I've noticed this after my bloody cavern entrance, a couple hundred tiles away from my dining/meeting hall, remained unclean until I designated the only active meeting hall there - at which point all the blood was quickly cleaned. Note also that contaminant cleaning only targets floors. While walls will be cleaned if they are part of the 3x3 block, they'll never be the specific target for cleaning, probably because the dwarf needs to stand on the tile targeted for cleaning. I've also noticed that, generally, only one cleaning job will be created at a time. This may be a result of my haulers all being "occasionally given to procrastination" or "very rarely does more work than is necessary" (personalities that also seem to interfere with individual dwarf training if drafted), but in cases where there are clearly many more than 1 3x3 block of contaminants, many dwarves remain idle as only one or two handle the actual cleaning. This could also just be a result of whatever function that generates cleaning jobs preventing overlapping cleaning jobs; that is, if a tile will get cleaned by a job on an adjacent tile, it won't produce a second job because it'll be cleaned anyway.

(0013962) hyndis (reporter) 2010-11-17 11:29	I'm not sure what triggers an idle dwarf cleaning things. You can have 50+ idlers, and oceans of blood, and maybe, just maybe, if you're very lucky, one of them might go and clean up a little section of bloodspatter. This seems to happen more often near a meeting zone. Also its not a regular job where all idlers will rush off and do it, such as if you have a lot of things that need hauling. Also it has to be below ground. There is something else that triggers cleaning. Its not a regular job like hauling an object. There is another requirement. You need to have blood spatter somewhere and some other trigger, and both must be active for the dwarf to clean it up. Can the other triggers or requirement be relaxed or outright removed? That would put cleaning spatter on the same kind of priority as hauling useless rocks around, and so any messes would be very quickly tidied up. So the three requirements are: 1) Spatter must exist. 2) Spatter must be below ground. 3) ????? Why do 2 and 3 need to exist? Just unlink them to the cleaning job. That way your dorfs will quickly clean up after even huge sieges, even above ground. This of course could lead them rushing outside to danger, but the same thing would happen if you don't have your civilians confined to a burrow and someone drops a sock on the battlefield, so that isn't a major drawback.

(0013968) Narmio (reporter) 2010-11-17 17:56	Alternative solution: Add a "Clean" designation to the 'd' menu. That way you can clean or not clean to your heart's content.

(0014062) hyndis (reporter) 2010-11-20 14:30	Standing orders would perhaps be more useful to allow universal cleaning commands. -No cleaning. -Clean underground. -Clean everywhere. Let the player toggle between options.

(0017013) Kogut (reporter) 2011-04-03 11:39	Still in .25

(0018403) vasiln (reporter) 2011-07-31 23:54	Just a quick note-- is it possible that the dwarves are not cleaning the square because it is muddy? My dwarves clean almost the entirety of my fortress, with a few exceptions-- they don't clean my farm plots, and they don't clean my bathtubs. Both of which are muddy. I was inclined to chalk it up to the presence of water in my bathtubs, but I believe that mud could explain it just as easily, and would explain this bug report also (drained well).

(0021016) etherflan (reporter) 2012-03-02 21:19	This seems to still exist on 0.34.04 My front hall has been covered in blood from when a kobold thief got in. Still there after several seasons, and dwarves with no job don't seem to be interested. Not muddy, not lit, is underground...

(0021713) kaypy (reporter) 2012-03-25 03:16	Does this affect floors or just walls? In my experiments, floors are cleaned in a reasonably timely manner, but walls are only ever cleaned as a side effect of being next to a floor cleaning. If it does affect walls, can someone UPLOAD A SAVE?

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-04-04 15:33	Draco18s	New Issue
2010-04-04 16:34	Qloos	Tag Attached: blood
2010-04-04 16:34	Qloos	Tag Attached: Cleaning
2010-04-10 11:01	MysteriousAges	Note Added: 0002606
2010-04-11 04:44	matakuka	Note Added: 0002784
2010-04-12 12:33	matakuka	Note Deleted: 0002784
2010-04-18 11:38	barconis	Note Added: 0004082
2010-07-07 16:52	Creidieki	Note Added: 0009751
2010-07-07 17:51	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0001140
2010-07-07 17:51	Footkerchief	Relationship added	parent of 0002506
2010-07-07 17:52	Footkerchief	Relationship replaced	parent of 0001140
2010-07-21 07:54	Niveras	Note Added: 0010778
2010-07-21 09:01	Profligate	Issue Monitored: Profligate
2010-11-17 09:02	Khym Chanur	Issue Monitored: Khym Chanur
2010-11-17 11:29	hyndis	Note Added: 0013962
2010-11-17 17:56	Narmio	Note Added: 0013968
2010-11-20 14:30	hyndis	Note Added: 0014062
2011-03-30 10:27	Footkerchief	Relationship replaced	related to 0002506
2011-04-03 11:39	Kogut	Note Added: 0017013
2011-04-03 11:40	Kogut	Issue Monitored: Kogut
2011-07-31 23:54	vasiln	Note Added: 0018403
2012-02-26 11:47	Buglist	Issue Monitored: Buglist
2012-03-02 21:17	etherflan	Issue Monitored: etherflan
2012-03-02 21:19	etherflan	Note Added: 0021016
2012-03-25 03:16	kaypy	Note Added: 0021713
2012-03-29 16:21	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0001630
2012-03-29 16:21	Footkerchief	Issue Monitored: Dame de la Licorne