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[Reese]

so, I started a new fort this evening in vanilla .03, and just to check out the viability of a location i embarked with the 'play now' settings.

I wasn't planning on saving, just digging down a bit to see if there was usable stone before I hit the aquifer. (turns out, there is)

anyway, that happened is I was looking around topside when my cat ran up and a bunch of gray dots spewed out from where the cat was.  concerned, I paused and [k]'d over the strange covering of the floor.

What I found was, well... a swarm of rats and rat corpses.


Has anyone else encountered this?

Is it a bug, or did my cat just uncover a rat's nest?
(is so, that's pretty cool, though now I have a bunch of rat corpses on my hands and am waiting for .05 before I upgrade and get the corpses not decaying bug fixed)

[HAMMERMILL]

I've encountered this in Adventure mode back in 40d where you'd walk over a tile and it would generate a mass of random vermin and a message like "You have disturbed a large number of large roaches" or something to that effect.

I'm guessing that happens in Dwarf mode now.

[Duuvian]

In 40d occasionally I'd dig out the entrance to my fort and sometime in summer a bunch of bats would appear from nowhere. Once I caught it happening as I happened to be centered on it, and it looked like a dwarf walked over one of the tiles I had dug out earlier and a ton of bats appeared. It had been walked over before, so I bet it resets by season or something. I wonder if cats can sniff out these tiles.

[Urist Imiknorris]

There are these vermin tiles denoted by a ░ that reads "many{insert vermin name here}" when you look over it. These are the things that spawn the mess of vermin when stepped on. The only vermin I've seen with this tile are flies, rats, bats, large roaches, and fluffy wamblers.

[bmaczero]

There are these vermin tiles denoted by a ░ that reads "many{insert vermin name here}" when you look over it. These are the things that spawn the mess of vermin when stepped on. The only vermin I've seen with this tile are flies, rats, bats, large roaches, and fluffy wamblers.

I've seen it with fairies.

[Zebra2]

I got it with fluffy wamblers.

[Karnewarrior]

There are these vermin tiles denoted by a ░ that reads "many{insert vermin name here}" when you look over it. These are the things that spawn the mess of vermin when stepped on. The only vermin I've seen with this tile are flies, rats, bats, large roaches, and fluffy wamblers.

I've seen it with fairies.

This isn't the cause though. Random, unmarked tiles will spawn vermin, which flee and eventually disappear. You cat usually kills some 100+ vermin at this point.

[Bluehawk]

I had a ratsplosion in 31.04 a few moments after embark.  My two kitties went crazy and I counted 35 dead rats about a minute later.