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Author Topic: A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?  (Read 2300 times)

Gavakis

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A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?
« on: September 25, 2012, 06:05:43 pm »

well, I was early in the year and im scouting around the caverns, and I thought I found the great spire, but I found another, on the second level of the caverns. WAT?

I then find an upward passage leading to the first level,
I found another spire of great candy.

The actual fk, I think my map is broken, it says "You have discovered a deep pit."
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« Last Edit: September 25, 2012, 06:21:19 pm by Gavakis »
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Re: A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2012, 06:23:54 pm »

Candy spires, very very VERY rarely appear on the surface. One such famous incident had a spire that went over 2000 Z levels into the sky. If they can appear on the surface they might as well appear anywhere.
« Last Edit: September 25, 2012, 06:26:15 pm by Mageziya »
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Re: A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2012, 06:37:58 pm »

you can mine 2nd cavern spires safelly

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Re: A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2012, 12:50:34 am »

Not necessarily safely, but generally with less chance of dying horribly. You can definitely always mine the top layer safely.
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Re: A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2012, 01:56:52 am »

Well, you can mine the top layer safely if your embark party isn't clowning around as soon as you unpause, anyway. :)
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Re: A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2012, 05:31:11 am »

don't spoil the fun guys. 2nd cavern spires are always safe

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Re: A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2012, 07:50:15 am »

How's the fps on the map? Usually candy spires have terrible fps for whatever reason.
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Re: A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2012, 02:46:18 pm »

How's the fps on the map? Usually candy spires have terrible fps for whatever reason.

Only if they go 2000 z-levels into space, requiring more memory than God to do any sort of pathing. Regular, non map-expanding spires won't do anything to FPS.
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Re: A spire of candy on the second level of caverns? WAT?
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2012, 10:37:11 pm »

Candy spires, very very VERY rarely appear on the surface. One such famous incident had a spire that went over 2000 Z levels into the sky. If they can appear on the surface they might as well appear anywhere.
That had absolutely nothing due to rarity - that was a bug caused by corrupted map feature data resulting from generating a new world immediately after cancelling an embark in another world (specifically, browsing a world for sites created feature*.dat files in the "data/save/current/" folder, cancelling embark failed to delete them, and the next worldgen would incorporate them in the new region even though their elevation data and geology references were completely bogus).
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