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Author Topic: [40d] Hidden and forbidden item has disappeared after being moved by water  (Read 697 times)

Fossaman

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I used a cave-in to open up a diversion of a brook, and then hid and forbid the mechanism used in the support. It's been moved around by water quite a bit, and I decided to see how far the flows had moved it. I couldn't find it using the hide designator (usually hidden stuff shows up cyan colored when you do this), so I checked the stocks screen. It shows up in stocks, but when I zoom to the square that the game thinks contains the item, it's not there.. So there's some sort of weirdness going on here. I suspect that the mechanism was worn away by the water, but got glitched by the hidden or forbidden status. Save file available on request.
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Re: [40d] Hidden and forbidden item has disappeared after being moved by water
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2009, 09:33:34 pm »

Sounds like this one (which I only found because I remembered it using the word "push," so no sweat):

# 000525 □ [dwarf mode][flows]   items that were pushed around by water didn't show up with look command
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Re: [40d] Hidden and forbidden item has disappeared after being moved by water
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2009, 10:37:40 pm »

Cool, I'm sure that's it. The mechanism is sitting half a dozen tiles or so downstream of where it started, so it's definitely been pushed by water.
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