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That was the evaporation bug.  It never used to evaporate properly and thus acted like soil.

Pretty sure that's a different thing. I'll give an example.

I had a worldgen reclaim fort with the big hollow stairwell thing. I mined out around the stairwell for a bunch of levels. I was planning a 'water fall down the middle' thing, but had a small accident and ended up with 'dusted with mud' water [1/1] and such all over the place on a bunch of levels. The floors were all natural stone (not smoothed). Long after all the water had evaporated I was left with 'muddy gabbro floor' and such. It didn't look good, and the dwarves hate to clean. So I tried building walls over the muddy stone floor and then deconstructing the walls. The result was that instead of patches of muddy stone floor I had patches of 'furrowed silty loam' and such. Which later grew moss, sprouted toadstools, etc.

I found a bug report / forum post somewhere explaining about this somewhere. Apparently it can sometimes be used as a trick to get clay or sand for embarks with no natural clay / sand sources.

But now it doesn't happen anymore, apparently.

I was doing a reclaim fortress start from a world-gen fortress and got a bit of a surprise. As well as the standard big box dwarf fortress and trade depot it had about 5 or 6 towers and goblin style shallow warrens. I presume that the dwarves took it from the goblins, then lost it (or vice versa).

It also has a bunch of food lying around under the fortress and on the trade depot.

Is this a new thing for 0.40.13?

Remember that thing where if you got a rough rock floor muddy then built on top of it then deconstructed the building? The rock floor would turn into a soil floor.

That doesn't seem to happen anymore.

So, unless I'm imagining it or doing something wrong, I guess that bug was stealth-fixed in 0.40.13.

Hamlet Kataksazir "Scalybridges"

* Opulent fully furnished <<*tower residence*>>. 19 floors! Around 800 block floor area per level.
* Population 22 Dwarves, 12 pets, 3 war animals.
* Untouched mineral resources! (I've mined nothing. I just dug down a bit to check for an aquifer - there wasn't one).
* Swiming pool in basement!
* Surrounded by thick forest.
* Uses Plantfixes, Dwarf Underpants and Phoebus' Graphics Set
* Started in DF 0.40.12, now DF 0.40.13

I've been playing this for 9 game years with invasions turned off and semi-fast-ish dwarf. Just messing around, really. The deal is that if you want a quick start I'll put the save up in a link and you can take it over. It would be nice if you let me know how things go.

In return you could, if you wish, put up a save link with an interesting fortress with a small-ish population (I find it gets too frantic after 30 dwarves or so).

Would you like to be one of the seven dorfs or would you rather be random-generated?

I'm interested in taking turns running the fort, but I don't really feel the need to be Dorfed. If that's OK.

I use the Pheobus graphic pack, and the PlantFix mod. (The latter is compatible with the former, and both will work with DF 0.40.13 ).

My dwarves also wear underpants.

entity_default.txt

find
[ENTITY:MOUNTAIN]
add line
   [PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_UNDERPANTS:COMMON]

item_pants.txt
find
[ITEM_PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_LOINCLOTH]
and add the following after that section.

[ITEM_PANTS:ITEM_PANTS_UNDERPANTS]
[PREPLURAL:pairs of]
[NAME:underpants:underpants]
[LAYER:UNDER]
[COVERAGE:50]
[LAYER_SIZE:10]
[LAYER_PERMIT:30]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:1]
[SOFT]
[LEATHER]
[STRUCTURAL_ELASTICITY_WOVEN_THREAD]

Haha, it may be undwarfy, but I do have my reasons for adding underpants. Dwarves have a habit of picking up stinky goblin loincloths and wearing them until they rot away. (Eww). Having new wholesome dwarven underpants available help stop that madness.

I had a quick look with a file comparison utility and found only one file in the raw\objects had changed for DF 0.40.13. creature_next_underground.txt has two lines changed

Find
[CREATURE:ELK_BIRD]
and change the line
   [GRAZER:600]
to
   [STANDARD_GRAZER]

Find
[CREATURE:DRALTHA]
and change the line
   [GRAZER:24]
to
   [STANDARD_GRAZER]

[EDIT] Lol, had that back to front.