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[Jude]

Pretty much what the topic says

I was making a drain chamber for a reservoir that claimed an aspiring diver's life - he was in the military and I wanted to reclaim his gear, and him if possible (too late - he dehydrated to death while floating in potable water)

Anyway that's neither here nor there. The point is I build a floodgate to block this new chamber, then I build a lever connecting to it...everything's fine...I open the floodgate to let dwarves grab some odd gems I found in there...finally everything's ready to go but just as I'm ready to shut the floodgate, I find the lever is not there.

A bunch of nobles just arrived - baron, hammerer, tax collector - and my dungeon master just "changed the price of goods" (making me wish I'd t hought to lock him in the soon-to-be-flooded-chamber, but oh well). Could any of these be responsible? Was the lever suddenly too expensive and the dwarves decided to repo it?

Any input welcome

I originally posted this in Gameplay questions because I somehow assumed there was a logical in-game reason for it, but someone raised the possibility of a bug too. Anyone?

[Skizelo]

I think this is the one time a nobles not to blame. Price changes effect things that can be sold in shops and the rents of rooms (i think), whereas a lever is a piece of fortress furniture which nobody owns.
The only non-bug explanation I can think is that you accidentally got a bit fat-fingered and pressed x(remove building) at the wrong time.
Do you suddenly have two more mechanisms than you did before? If not, I don't know what to tell you.

[Jude]

I'm 98% sure I didn't accidentally move the lever.

Anyway, there you have it.