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I was mistaken about muddying murky pools, after watching closely I saw that it didn't work. However, I built stone floors over it then deconstructed them, and the plot I was able to build there could cultivate both surface and subterranean plants.

My guess is that you did some excavating of the pool walls and had some floor tiles above overhanging portions of the plot giving you the option for underground plants.  If you had continued and actually assigned seeds to be planted on that plot, you would have found that nothing at all will get planted there, ever.

Tiredness, thirst, and hunger also factor in.  if you have a legendary who is really in need of all of those things you may notice and occasional miss.

I am sorry, but you are smoking crack...  those do not factor into the mining return at all, maybe you think you saw it happen, but it did not.

I was just wondering if you were ever planning on making the text more readable. On my last install I was running a pretty old graphics set which seemed to have no trouble having both an icon for wells and the letter "o".

The problem you are describing is not something that is under the control of Ironhand, it is Baughn and Toady who are working on the TTF implementation, and as such is something that Ironhand is waiting for just like everyone else.

EDIT: Alright, if you really feel the need to use Flash...

That is not Hyndis' personal website, that is the Dwarf Fortress Map Archive, a place where all DF players can upload the exported images of their fortress...  Maybe you should get a little more in-tune with the community before being so pompous about things...

Make sure to actually click the link for the reactor POI on the left, as hyndis' link takes you to the dorms for some reason.

Hyndis's reactor room is a good example of a properly expanded 'v-reactor' design, I see nothing about it that should cause problems, and I am not sure what you mean about small scale, that design uses 50 water wheels, that is a crapton of power (5200 sounds about right from looking at it), and containment? well the reservoir under the pumps is enclosed, so it works off a fixed amount of water, so there is no real danger of flooding.

I didn't think orientation was an issue, the question was whether a narrow in-line channel would provide the proper flow to power wheels, and that presupposes they're all on the same axis.

Probably not, if you could manage to get the entire length of the channel to have between 4/7 and 6/7 water at all times then it might work, but good luck with that.

Quote from: Dragonchampion on November 12, 2010, 12:08:43 am

Quote from: MrWiggles on November 12, 2010, 12:05:09 am

Why is this is a map error?

How is this NOT a map error? 

Its not unheard for minerals or gems which are generally found deep within the earth to have exposure on the surface.

This isn't the first report of Cotton Candy having a spiral reaching the surface, but its not really that common.

It is most definitely an error.  If you try and re-gen that world and embark on that same exact area, you will not get the spires.  The exposed spires and even occasionally exposed magma sea, seem to be related to something in memory not getting cleared properly causing oddities in worldgen.  If this was something which could be consistently repeated I would guess that it could simply be worldgen creatively applying minerals, but since it is completely random wether your world will have these spires, and completely unreproduceable on the same worlds, it is most definitely NOT normal behavior for the game.

On that note, I would embark there and not consider it cheating.  If you don't turn off invasions things should get pretty interesting right quick once you start mining the bluemetal.  Also, my personal experience with this was a map with 2 spires that extended 15 z levels above the floor and were hollow all the way to the bottom.  I decided to see if there were any demons at the bottom so the first thing I did was went down the tubes with some staircases.  It turned out that hell was completely deserted for whatever reason.

If this is true, the chances are realgar will behave the same way, is it has identical stats in the raws.