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I have 2 murky pools that I emptied to make my underground farms with. Winter came and there was only 2 1/7 water tiles where the murky ponds use to be. When the thaw came they were completely filled again and flooded my farms just before they were getting harvested causing the loss of everything.1/7 water will form 7/7 after freezing. Rain will refill murky pools.
Will the murky ponds fill up again every time it thaws? I have built a wall to prevent it from happening again but definitely wasnt expecting that. The ponds have and outside access one z-level up if that makes a difference.
This is sort of a meta-DF question, but why are there suddenly so many new people having trouble figuring out how stairs work? I've seen people ask about stairs like a hundred times in the past two weeks. Why is this suddenly so much more difficult to figure out than anything else in the game?I think it's more that the stairs vs ramps question was brought up recently, and never resolved, so new players ask for a resolution.
Also, after each patch of wall, the entire thing recenters and skews your perception of where you are.Not if you start the next section right after you hit enter on the previous.
The dwarven caravan can only bring animals that are associated with the surroundings of their area. So if the dwarves are really close by, they may be in the same area as you so will also have no access to muskox. Elves on the other hand seem to be able to turn up with just about anything, they are usually your best bet for completing breeding pairsYou won't come with a muskox if your civ doesn't have access to them.
I encountered that once too. Just one in that world. Doesn't help that volcanoes look like red sand desert on the embark map.So I've just finished genning 6 different worlds, trying to find a decent starting zone to embark to.This happened to me once so far. I noticed what was going on because I was checking out the volcanoes on the world map - none of the region maps had a volcano at all.
I choose what *looks* to be a nice place, decent plant life, nearby mountains, and hit embark.
I end up in the middle of a salt flat, no trees, on an island in the middle of the ocean. On the local/region map I was looking at before embarking, I wasn't anywhere near hardly a river or lake, much less an ocean.
This happens all the time. I can't seem to figure out how to find a nice starting point, and I'd really rather not dig a hole in a freakin desert to start a fortress. How do you read that map before embarking?
I didn't embark there at all, but there was something asynchronous between world map and region maps, and probably what I would've got if I had embarked as well.
Only one world out of several dozen though.
Only the save's raws are used. Hence the full copy.All you need to do is edit data/save/regionX/raw/objects/creature_standard.txt and add [SPEED:n] (where "n" is a suitably small number - 0 or 1 will make them lightning-fast) to the Dwarf creature entry, then load the savegame. When you're done, remove the token and they'll return to normal speed.
Hmm, so if the raws for the game itself are vanilla, and the raws for the save have been modded, the fort's save-game raws will override the install's?
Wait, could we also mod Dwarves to fly, be able to live underwater, etc etc?There are enough bugs there that you probably don't want to try. At best, flying will let your dwarves go over walls and avoid stairs (that's all tame fliers seem to do). You should be able to avoid swimming issues by making them inate swimmers, though.
>_> Would being able to fly really mess up the FPS (all the pathing options)
I mean how awesome would it be to have a fort that considers flying? You could have huge spires like Coruscant or massive be-hive life forts with landing balconies etc etc.
I just found some adamantine right before my brother comes over, so I save the game and show him what's going on -- I want to show him hell so I dig and dig and dig into the adamantine and it's solid -- is this a bug?No. It's hollow further down. You do get some adamantine before opening up HFS.
