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[Karlito]

A smoothed  floor of most stone is called a "Smooth Floor" i.e. "Smooth Slate Floor," but if its a colored stone its simply called a "Floor" i.e. "Orthoclase Floor."  I can't think of a particularly good reason for this, it just seems like an oversight.

EDIT: Further investigation reveals this to be a conflict between stone that occurs in layers and stone that occurs as clusters within the layers (ores and jems too).  I still can't think of a particularly good reason for it though.

[ June 03, 2008: Message edited by: Karlito ]

[Toady One]

He he he, this was a really old one, it seems.  Way back when, before 3D, when the map was stored as ASCII + color rather than specific map tiles, it checked for "+" to see if the floor was smooth.  Now there are four different kinds of smooth tiles, and the cluster/layer distinction is part of that (if it's a cluster, it knows it has to check through the cluster information rather than just pulling the layer for the stone type).  Anyway, apparently it was still checking for "+" to see if it should print the word smooth, and the "+" has the same integer value as the smooth tile corresponding to layered rock.  Fixed for next time.

[Keizo]

It's funny how the most inconsequential bugs seem to have the most convoluted causes. Hearing things like these make me really want to take a peek at DF's source code. Not that I would understand any of it at all.