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[Loud Whispers]

I must share with you bay12, of something momentous.

Today, whilst building upon more of silentthunders, just a few minutes ago I was making sure none of my builders walled themselves into their dooms, when I saw the unmistakable mushroom silhouette of an engraving punishing my desire for perfection through irregular symmetry of the brass palisade I was constructing.

I couldn't believe myself.

I had to check over multiple times to make sure it was what I thought it was.

Indeed, it was an ordinary brass pillar, made out of one brass bar, and it had an engraving on it.

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I immediately saved my game, just to check if something game breaking had happened - but no. It saved fine.
I knew I had to immediately report my findings to bay12.

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I don't know how they did it, why they did it and I have not been able to replicate it, but my Dwarves have made me proud.

They've engraved in constructed walls.

I've never even designated anything to be engraved for the past year.

[Ubiq]

At a guess, you did have somebody engrave something in that spot at some point as there was an old bug where constructing walls on a formerly engraved site would transfer the image in certain situations.

I've never understood why you could carve fortifications into constructed walls, but not etch an image into them instead.

[Loud Whispers]

At a guess, you did have somebody engrave something in that spot at some point as there was an old bug where constructing walls on a formerly engraved site would transfer the image in certain situations.

I've designated one thing to be engraved in my fort, and that was a Dwarf year ago, and far away. But this could be related - I was carving fortifications into the walls.

[IT 000]

I suspect these 'goblin caps' were just two troll faces. 

Posting to watch.

[kaijyuu]

You can construct straight-up fortifications without building walls first, you know.


But yeah this is wacky. The carve fortification got mixed up with the carve engraving designation, it seems.

[WealthyRadish]

If this were reproducible, that'd be amazing. Science, anyone?

[Ubiq]

You can construct straight-up fortifications without building walls first, you know.

Sure, but constructed fortifications don't have a floor above them while carved ones do. Building the wall and the carving them means that your dwarves can walk around on top of the fortifications with having to build a floor or bridge first.

[krenshala]

I was planning to carve fortifications into the stone wall I have built around the area claimed for my current fort, as I am expecting the dead to visit in the flesh within the next year (currently mid Obsidian of the forts first year).  I'll be sure to see if I can designate any of it for engraving while I'm at it.

[Urist Da Vinci]

This sounds related to this bug:

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=3805

[Hanslanda]

Is it wierd I read this whole thread expecting the OP to post a reaction to make your dwarves use blankets when they sleep?
Or at least a theory as to why there are no blankets in DF?
Or literally ANYTHING blanket related?