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Author Topic: Forbidden Oriole  (Read 753 times)

Porpoisepower

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Forbidden Oriole
« on: July 01, 2009, 10:08:21 am »

I had a tame Oriole In a cage I got from trading.  in the process of stripping some invaders of their equipment I dumped the Oriole Cage(d-b-d)... I didn't notice until the cage was in the garbage pit.  When I reclaimed it the cage was reclaimed but the oriole had escaped and marked with as forbidden.
I was unable to reclaim it like other animals(f key) but I was able to reclaim it by d-b-reclaim.

Also I tried to atom smash it, and it phased through the descending 10x10 obsidian bridge.(it was dead smack in the center when it slammed down).
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Re: Forbidden Oriole
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2009, 10:20:30 am »

Sounds normal enough.  I had a bunch of escaped small tame vermin on reclaim that behaved as you described.  There's lots and lots of things that can't be reclaimed with the f-key, only d-b.

Small animals like that are vermin, not creatures, hence do no pathing, teleport from square to square, and cannot be destroyed by conventional means except cats.
« Last Edit: July 01, 2009, 10:25:51 am by Corona688 »
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Re: Forbidden Oriole
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2009, 02:25:06 pm »

Just seems like if something is forbidable than k-f ought to work.

Edit:
or that live animals shouldn't be forbidable in the first place. 

Anyway It strikes me that something isn't quite by design here.
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Re: Forbidden Oriole
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2009, 03:11:21 am »

So this was an escaped oriole?  The look command is probably taking it as a "vermin" event and not an item, where the reclaim rectangle searches out all items in the rectangle, and it can pull the coordinates out of vermin events.  I'll note it down.
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