does milk count as drink?

[George Droyd MK77]

it doesnt look like it to me i have dozens of milk barrels but i have 0 drinks and every now and then someon e dehydrates.

[kheftel]

No, just alcohol lol. Maybe it should count haha

[Helios]

Originally posted by Catboy Ian:

it doesnt look like it to me i have dozens of milk barrels but i have 0 drinks and every now and then someon e dehydrates.

it does count as extract you can make cheese from it a farmer station but they cant drink it.

[Hipnox]

Milk is for elf scum
Real Dorfs drink alcohol

[George Droyd MK77]

so them dehydrating is not because i have 0 drinks, and drinks is just alcohol to keep them happy? i have a well built inside

[LastChime]

Originally posted by Catboy Ian:

so them dehydrating is not because i have 0 drinks, and drinks is just alcohol to keep them happy? i have a well built inside

That's mainly for washing and terribly injured/sick dwarves, I mean if there's no booze they might try it if their friends aren't looking.

Make sure the well is active and preferably clean.

[Benedicta]

Dwarves drink alcohol for hydration. They only drink water when injured/sick.

[kheftel]

Originally posted by Catboy Ian:

so them dehydrating is not because i have 0 drinks, and drinks is just alcohol to keep them happy? i have a well built inside

They will drink water when healthy, to survive, but they don't like it, and booze makes them much happier, and yeah, the "drinks" counter only includes alcohol. Also they get withdrawal without alcohol and their work speed/efficiency plummets.

When they're wounded, it's a totally different story, they NEED water or they'll dehydrate, they will not drink booze while recuperating in the hospital. Your well will become very important at that point.

[Empath demon]

Dwarf milk was in the caravan today.

So.

[Targetdrone]

basically all dwarfs are terminally alcohol addicted. they *can* survive on water or even milk i guess, but only so long before their mood plummets down far enough for temper tantrums to occure. usually when that happens, *fun* is soon to follow :p

[LolotovCocktail]

Originally posted by Empath demon:

Dwarf milk was in the caravan today.

So.

Surprisingly, it's not actually from dwarves. It's from purring maggots.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Catboy Ian:

so them dehydrating is not because i have 0 drinks, and drinks is just alcohol to keep them happy? i have a well built inside

They dehydrated because they could not reach or consume a Drink in time, either water or alcohol.

I had a Fisherdwarf die to dehydration a few steps from the Drinks stockpile he was trying to get to and it was full of drinks. He just didn't make it. Why? The stream he was fishing from was on the other side of the gameplay map, so he evidently just had too far to go between when he first decided to get a drink and... dehydration.

Whenever you have a Well and Alcohol/Drinks available and a dwarf dies from dehydration, it's because they couldn't reach whatever well/drinks that were available before they succumbed to dehydration. (Patients and newborns can die in the hospital, too, if there is no Water or nobody to bring them any. Children will give them water by default as one of their "Chores" unless Chores are disabled for children in the Labor-Chores tab or there are no buckets in the Hospital.)

[Semtex]

dwarves will only choose to drink alcohol, but will only give other dwarves water. any liquid other than that is for production only.
your dwarfs will survive (barely) on water, as long as you have a source of fresh water assigned via zone (or an active well) + at least one empty bucket.