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meowmix

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an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« on: February 16, 2012, 03:44:54 am »
I don't understand what happened. i embarked and after like 10 min of lag an entire corner of my map had been obliterated exposing the eerie glowing pits beneath.  as far as i know its still in the middle of collapsing..

luckily my dwarves were not in that corner...

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saved and reloaded map, and collapse continues exposing hidden fun stuff
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still collapsing, the other corner of my map is starting to fall now and a portion of eerie glowing pit has been exposed already
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at this rate i wouldn't be surprised if the entire map collapses..this was the smallish corner in the above image after a massive collapse chain
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« Last Edit: February 16, 2012, 04:55:29 am by meowmix »
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2012, 03:53:51 am »
What...
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2012, 03:59:00 am »
Oh wow, you opened the gates of hell, dude! The entire embark tile is gone!

That's an awesome bug, if you manage to survive, you should check out the area around that corner with an adventurer and see the total extent of the damage.

Maybe reload the save and embark on a different part of the chasm to hell and build your fort around it.
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2012, 04:01:06 am »
iono its kinda lagging really badly since the magma layer and the water above it is all pouring into the bottomless pit... i may have to abandon if the lag doesn't let up after i stop getting collapse messages..

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is there a way to make the game not pause with each collapse announcement?
« Last Edit: February 16, 2012, 05:02:17 am by meowmix »
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2012, 06:23:18 am »
A necromandcer created a black hole XD
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2012, 06:39:45 am »
(DF folder)/Data/init/announcements.txt, look for "[CAVE_COLLAPSE:A_D:D_D:P:R]", remove the :P:R part so it just says "[CAVE_COLLAPSE:A_D:D_D]". You'll still get the announcements, but they won't pause or center the screen on them anymore.
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2012, 12:00:35 pm »
A bugged embark. I had at least one of those too. Just abandon, and find another spot.
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2012, 02:17:09 pm »
Quote from: Maklak on February 16, 2012, 12:00:35 pm
A bugged embark. I had at least one of those too. Just abandon, and find another spot.

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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2012, 03:51:07 pm »
Quote from: peskyninja on February 16, 2012, 02:17:09 pm
Quote from: Maklak on February 16, 2012, 12:00:35 pm
A bugged embark. I had at least one of those too. Just abandon, and find another spot.

ARE YOU MAD?! He must build the most bad ass fortress EVER!

That lag is not going to go away.  It's unplayable.

This is not a new phenomenon, it has happened ever since 31.01 came out, although most of the incidences have been fixed. 

What happened is a piece of the data concerning the way that the underground caverns are structured was corrupted, causing things like cotton candy towers to the heavens or collapsing maps on embark.  The whole game world is corrupted, you will need to generate a whole new world to fix the problem.

Upload a save and put a bug report in to Mantis.  Toady will want to know what is causing the corruption in the files to be able to track this bug down.
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2012, 04:18:59 pm »
People have told me this has to do with DF not cleaning up world gen data properly, mussing up further worlds; DF needs to be completely closed between gens to keep it from popping up.  I tend to create a dozen or so worlds back to back and then examine their history to see which I like best, but I come across these wrecked embarks constantly and they are never playable, so I can believe it. 
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« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2012, 04:26:23 pm »
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2012, 09:09:07 pm »
Quote from: Nullnostalgia on February 16, 2012, 04:26:23 pm
Raglarthor IncestFancied, the Ash Demon, is now a Dabbling Miner!

... What?
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Re: an entire corner of my map obliterated?
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2012, 09:27:50 pm »
Quote from: 612DwarfAvenue on February 16, 2012, 09:09:07 pm
Quote from: Nullnostalgia on February 16, 2012, 04:26:23 pm
Raglarthor IncestFancied, the Ash Demon, is now a Dabbling Miner!

... What?

Our good 'ol Raglarthor IncestFancied learned how to use a copper pick.
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