I've encountered this problem as well. There is nothing stopping the child from picking up the sock he wants, but he's simply standing in one place with the 'Pickup Equipment' task, naked, and slowly dying of thirst.

Forbidding the sock he wanted didn't cancel the task, but it did remove it from the details on the [j]ob screen. The area where he's standing had already been set to get flooded to make a mud plain to grow moss and underground trees, so we'll see if the rising water wakes him up.

ETA: It did! The moment the water touched his feet, he snapped out of his daze and ran off to get a drink. An unconventional fix, maybe, but at least it worked -- no idea what I would have done had he frozen in another room. comment last edited by SomeoneSneaky on Oct 31, 2014, 09:57:07 pm