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nenjin

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Grates blocking miasma?
« on: February 02, 2010, 08:51:11 pm »

Didn't recall this happening in the first few fortresses I built, but in this one all of my grates stop miasma from going up or down. Am I crazy or is that not the way it's supposed to be?
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2010, 05:39:22 am »

grates??

i've never witnessed it. remove it and try again with a grate of a different material, it might be a bug or something
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2010, 06:42:31 pm »

Cleangales the grate of air cleaning, all air that passes through it gets filtered from miasma!
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2010, 07:00:30 pm »

The dorfs invented air filters? Sweeet. But its probably a bug.
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2010, 07:53:29 pm »

The air filters are made from discarded beards. Dwarven beards are so bristly, at the microscopic level they even catch scent particles.
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2010, 07:51:21 am »

I just tried this out with pine grates and two rotten turtles.

The miasma spread through the grates without effort. Both into open-air rooms and closed off rooms. Weird filter you got there. Look over the details, maybe this should be submitted as a bug.

edit: Come to think of it. It could also be submitted as a suggestion. With DF2010 coming up and one of the features being "inhaled poisons" it makes sense to combine say .. spider silk and a grate to create an air filter.
« Last Edit: February 04, 2010, 07:53:00 am by Aspgren »
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2010, 10:25:46 am »

The air filters are made from discarded beards. Dwarven beards are so bristly, at the microscopic level they even catch scent particles.

This is a dwarf beard HEPA filter. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of aluminum and menaces with spikes of cave lobster shell. On the item is an image of a dwarf in carp leather. The dwarf is coughing.
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2010, 06:04:04 am »

This is a dwarf beard HEPA filter. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of aluminum and menaces with spikes of cave lobster shell. On the item is an image of a dwarf in carp leather. The dwarf is coughing.

Quoted... or something like it... like Sigged... or... yeah...
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2010, 10:05:00 am »

It may be his fortress setup, if the dump tile is Light Above Ground it might appear that the grate was acting as a filter but it was just the outside effect (rotting garbage outside does not produce miasma). So if you had shaft going down through all the layers to the outside (like an air shaft or anti-flooding drain) that was the garbage dump it would be miasma free but still in the middle of the fortress deep in the ground.
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2010, 12:52:32 pm »

Just to be clear, was this done using floor grates or wall grates?
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Re: Grates blocking miasma?
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2010, 05:50:56 am »

stop miasma from going up or down.

Floor grates.
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