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Attacked by a nothing
« on: May 06, 2010, 04:16:16 am »

I was just starting up a new game in which the only mods were Phoebus's tileset and Chariot's Zoo mod. In said game, I was Kelvas Swiftcut the Swordsman. I had just finished training my throwing skill to legendary, and had just gotten an ally (A fellow human swordsman). I then decided to go out into the wilderness to train my wrestling against some deer. I went to the fast travel screen and moved two squares up, at which time I was ambushed.

Now this is where it gets a little weird.

Upon entering the ambush area, there was nothing there. Literally, nothing around. My ally began moving toward an empty square, that I couldn't seem to see into. This empty square was approaching my ally, as if there was supposed to be an enemy there, but there was nothing. Literally, a nothing. My ally swung his sword at "A nothing" but his sword went "right through". I entered the fray, hoping that two swords were better than one, but alas, my scimitar merely clove the air. I decided at this point that my best chance of killing this thing would lie in learning more about it. So, I examined it with "l" upon which, I discovered what I had already so far surmised, it was "A nothing" and it seemed to have hit locations. So, I pressed "d" for a more detailed description, at which point my Dwarf Fortress promptly crashed.

I went through Chariot's zoo raws and I couldn't find anything called "nothing" and I don't have time to go through the whole dwarf fortress raw folder to see if I can find it there either. I'm just wondering if any of you guys have come across this little bug, and if so, how would one go about fixing it?

Thanks!
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Re: Attacked by a nothing
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2010, 05:12:02 am »

Chariot's zoo mod hasn't been updated for 0.31 yet, so this beg the question: which version are you playing? If you tried playing 0.31 with chariot's zoo mod, then that's the problem.
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Re: Attacked by a nothing
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2010, 08:48:18 am »

As far as I was aware, they were updated. Atleast for DF2010. Is that not 0.31? Here's the link: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=52222.msg1133473
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Re: Attacked by a nothing
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2010, 09:18:39 am »

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Updated for DF2010:
Botany Mod 3.0 - 150 new plants.
Dendrology Mod 2.0 - 76 new trees.
Cuisine Mod 1.0 - 64 new meal types.
Angler Mod 2.5 - 35 new fish.
Full Graphics Set

Not updated yet:
Zoo Mod 3.5 - 84 new creatures.

Alternate Civs Graphics Sets
Modular Civilizations - Never released
Armory Mod - 19 new weapons.

As far as I can tell, the zoo mod isn't updated yet. I also checked on Dwarf Fortress File Depot to make sure there wasn't an updated version there.
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Re: Attacked by a nothing
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2010, 04:24:38 pm »

Well, poo... I was hoping that I had found a really big bug in the game, but it was just user error.

:/

Thanks anyway!
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