dry-buckets for wells

[lethosor]

Discussed in #3219

^{Originally posted by @Matt-PMCT April 12, 2023}
I spend an annoying amount of my game time building/destroying wells. I find that the "bucket is full" in the well and the dwarfs won't use the well. The only thing that seems to fix it is to disassemble the well, rebuilding it with a different bucket.

The dry-bucket command states "Buckets in wells or being actively carried or used by a job are not affected." Is there any way to create a dry well bucket command, because that would really help me from having to build/destroy/rebuild wells...

[lethosor]

From a quick glance at the script, this might be doable with a simple option to bypass the in_building check: https://github.com/DFHack/scripts/blob/ec1a69788fd6329008672523b622fd8b390fea73/fix/dry-buckets.lua#L19

I haven't tested that, though, so I'm not sure how this script would affect buckets in wells.

[ab9rf]

hold on this until it's evaluated if this still exists in 50.08 given this from the public beta announcement:

Allowed most water-based jobs that use buckets to use partially-filled water buckets in addition to empty buckets.

[humblegar]

I am running a version locally without the "in_building" check, it does fix wells with full buckets, and dwarves could use the wells again. The script still checks for "in a job".

My testing is very limited at the moment, but I can keep this local script for a while.

Maybe it will be fixed within DF itself when buckets and water are changed, as ab9rf mentions.