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1. Start a (dwarven?) adventurer
2. Get quest to slay monster in cave
3. Go to cave with adventurer and then die and/or quit
4. Start fortress mode game
5. Start over area with cave, encompass all of the caves' area
6. Watch cave entrance seal itself and leave behind bright-red V's and S's.

What's even odder is that once this happens, the entire "plug" will be visible to you having been filled in, nearby ponds will lose visibility on the surrounding walls, and the entire cave complex will seem to fall down one Z level.

So yeah, now, there's no chance in hell my 6 military dwarves will be able to kick ass and chew cave spider bubble gum.

[ February 06, 2008: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

In an attempt to bypass the annoying aspect that bags would always be tied up by holding dimple dye, i decided to try and "empty" the bags of the dye, and then have a dwarf put the dye into a barrel by forbidding the bag. The dye was successfully removed from the bag, and was dumped on the ground as a forbidden item (as all dumped items are)

However, here's the thing; a dwarf came along and decided to clean up the dumped dimple dye ... While the dye was still forbidden. Even odder, the game would spam "Could not find path" messages if the dwarves couldn't find a path there.
What's even sadder is that the damn dimple dye was cleaned and erased from existence. Once i removed the cleaning job from each of my dwarves and un-forbid the doorway, they put the dye in the proper stockpile... And when the cleaning job was re-enabled, they still cleaned the dye!!!
ARGH!  :mad:

Thankfully it was an alternate universe, and the only thing that was lost was the time i spent figuring this out.

TL;DR version:
Forbidden objects that are normally cleaned up by dwarves (like loose dimple dye) are not exempt from being cleaned, despite being forbidden. If the path is blocked (through a forbidden door) message spam will occur.
Dimple dye outside of bags will also always be cleaned as long as 1 dwarf has the cleaning job.

I think what's causing the bug is that the game isn't exporting directly from the map data file, but instead is exporting from the display (like a series of screenshots; if the screen is corrupted, so will the screenshot)

By placing multiple objects in a container, and then emptying the container one item at a time by removing it's contents, you can hold several objects in each hand at once.

For instance:
The player can hold one water skin in each hand. However, if the player takes 3 water skins and stuffs them into a 4th, the player can remove the 3 water skins at a time and end up holding 2 in each hand.

Very likely, the player can hold several weapons in this manner, being able to attack for massive damage (three masterpeice weapons? in one hand?! made of adamantium!? rofl.)

A picture of the bug:

[ December 02, 2006: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

They seem to be able to complete jobs in workshops just fine, though.

1) Miners deface masterpeice.
2) Maker of masterpeice tantrums.
3) Sheriff drags tantrumming dwarf to jail after destroying several things.
4) Sheriff fails to drag the bastard there in time, and gets his leg injured to RED status by tantruming dwarf.
5) Tantrumming dwarf is killed by falling bridge in a "accident" while not tantrummed

6) Miners deface masterpeice again. Different dwarf tantrums, this time in a party.
7) Dwarf tantrums, kills 3 others. Sheriff can't stop murdering spree since he's injured and in bed.
Nearby dwarves become pissed, and tantrum. >3 dwarves tantrumming, unknown # more dwarves are "unhappy" or "miserable"

9) Assumably, "Civil war" bug could emerge again if this series of events continues or spreads.

[Well, they didn't civil war, but the fortress did eventually grind to a halt as half or more of the population was unhappy, wounded, caring for said wounded, or tantrumming... Which is about as bad.

Also, the reason why this is in bug reports is that i think it's a bug that a Dwarf which is supposed to be KO'd by the Sheriff can wake up, and injure the Sheriff to such a unhealable state. And that so many crimes can be perpitrated without soldiers intervening, acting as deputies.]

[ September 21, 2006: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

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000483 □ [dwarf mode][jobs][building construction and destruction] Well builder stops and tries to drink from the well before the building is complete

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Except instead of the builder, other dwarves who are thirsty will also try to drink from the well. There's a "water source" interaction zone immediately next to the well, and water is immediately below it, if that matters.

However, even when told to carry just one weapon, the squad leader still doesn't carry food!

This is the latest version; v0.22.110.23c
Highly disruptive, since the squad follows the leader.