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Author Topic: Massive "Cancels pickup equipment, could not find path" spam.  (Read 723 times)

Verviedi

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Massive "Cancels pickup equipment, could not find path" spam.
« on: February 27, 2015, 04:50:33 pm »

Ever since I broke through to the Caverns, my screen has been spammed with "Cannot find path" and "Item Inaccessible."
Is there a way to disable those notifications or a way to delete all inaccessible items?

EDIT: And now my Ranger and Mayor are spamming "Cancels Hunt: Cannot find path" even though their hunting labors are disabled. They are standing right in the middle of the goddamn dining room. Do I need to "accidentally" them, or is there a way to make them shut up?
« Last Edit: February 27, 2015, 04:52:26 pm by Verviedi »
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utunnels

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Re: Massive "Cancels pickup equipment, could not find path" spam.
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2015, 07:02:14 pm »

Do you hava burrows enabled?
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Re: Massive "Cancels pickup equipment, could not find path" spam.
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2015, 08:51:41 pm »

Do you hava burrows enabled?
I tried activating an alert to make all my dwarves go to the emergency bunker. Even more spam.
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utunnels

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Re: Massive "Cancels pickup equipment, could not find path" spam.
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2015, 08:59:55 pm »

Yeah, when you burrow them you tend to see those messages.
That'ss really strang if you weren't using burrows.

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Re: Massive "Cancels pickup equipment, could not find path" spam.
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2015, 03:13:08 am »

One possibility is that the spam comes from attempts to get stuff from the cavern, but something stopping them. Burrows tend to generate huge amounts of spam, but there are some other reasons (poorly understood by me, at least) for it as well.

I'd try to forbid everything in the cavern with 'd' 'b' 'f' and then block select from below the lowest to above the highest cavern level. This should forbid all items in that region (you may have to manually unforbid any cage traps caught in the process). You can unforbid the items either as a region command or on an item per item basis if you want to get at them later.

I'd also try to close off cavern access completely with closed drawbridges (you should build those anyway, for protection) to see if the spam stops.
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