Beavers dying of thirst because they prefer to work

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• 30 Sep, '21
  FuryoftheStars Merged

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  Especially when they are empty handed, becoming thirsty/starving should override their current job to seek out needed nourishment. They already do this for those working in buildings. Should be expanded to include builders/haulers/and the like, and should override orders for off-duty beavers that are going to recreational activities or to bed.
  
  It's rather silly seeing them leave a construction job on one extreme edge of the district, become thirsty/starving a few steps later, but now need to go grab the materials they were after and trek it all the way back before doing anything about it.
  
  I don't know about you, but job be damned if I'm dying of thirst/starvation, nor would I actually be able to get any sleep unless I was sleep deprived, too.

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• 27 Sep, '21
  Peter D

  I think the 'thirsty' moodle should be paused until the current task is finished, but I've never had a beaver die from thirst that quickly from working, so it seems to be pretty well balanced as implemented.
  
  Maybe the thirsty moodle should show up like a half or whole day earlier, and give a special warning if there is nowhere to drink from. I do think that by the time you get the moodle, if you don't have any water, you're probably screwed and won't be able to fix it in time.

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• 01 Oct, '21
  Gin Fuyou System

  "Thirsty/starving should override current job (if reasonable)" (suggested by FuryoftheStars on 2021-09-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 11 Oct, '21
  LP

  All of my beavers died and chose to do their work rather than drinking or fetching water at the water pump and replenishing the water supply. There might need to be some balancing with tasks in order of needs like hydration, hunger, etc.

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• 12 Oct, '21
  SnipeZ

  This is happening to me lmao. Although its kinda a good thing cuz i got too many beavers

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• 15 Mar, '22
  ZZZ Merged

  Beaver porter passes through water station three times but doesn't drink water，There is water, but standing near the house waiting to die

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• 15 Mar, '22
  Gin Fuyou System

  "choose optimization" (suggested by ZZZ on 2022-03-15), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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• 16 Jul, '23
  Sidra

  I had water run out at the end of a drought. Now all water pumps are working and no one is filling up tanks. I think sometimes beavers are drinking from pumps but we aren't filling up tanks at all anymore. And this is my third drought on a new save.

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• 09 Oct, '24
  Raederle

  I'm often confused by this too. Why don't they get water more often?

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• 22 Oct, '24
  TJ

  I have one beaver that keeps working and even went to sleep and started working again all while thirsty. It suddenly showed up as -10 thirsty and I had water the whole time and still do have water. lots of water. I think this must be a bug and there is no way to give a command to go drink something. It would be nice to have a command to Eat/Drink that we can use to override there automatic commands whenever we want them to stop/heal/continue.

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