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Author Topic: Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant  (Read 2013 times)

veryinky

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Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant
« on: December 23, 2007, 01:52:00 pm »
Fort is on a white sand desert. This sand is 4 layers deep. Every time I harvest a tree or plant, it turns the square into a obsidian pebble square instead of a white sand square. The obsidian pebble squares can't be used for farming even though they're solid white sand underneath. The nearest obsidian is on level -5 after the aquifer.

In forests and grasslands, chopping down trees/plants results grass or dirt/sand. So this behavior is rather odd.

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Re: Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2007, 02:21:00 pm »
This is interesting.  Did you perchance generate the world in .33e or earlier, then move it to .33f or later?
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veryinky

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Re: Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2007, 03:15:00 pm »
Game started in .33g yesterday. 2/3rds of the "white sand" squares are now "obsidian pebbles".
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Re: Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2007, 05:37:00 pm »
The new map I started is entirely white sand and plain sand on the surface, but I don't think I have any naturally occurring plants or trees, so if it's only those I can't help confirm. If harvesting farm plants does this as well, however...
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Re: Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2007, 08:16:00 pm »
Okay, I'll take a look at it at some point.
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Arnos

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Re: Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2008, 06:34:00 pm »
I get a bug similar to this, whenever I cut down a tree I get sand instead of grass.  My top layer is covered with grass but it is slowly turning to sand as I harvest the trees, I think that the top layer was labeled sand in the embark screen.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'm using 38c.

[ February 26, 2008: Message edited by: Arnos ]

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Re: Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2008, 06:44:00 pm »
That's normal.  The grass and other plants are growing on the sand, and the dwarves are trampling and picking it off the sand.  Grass will gradually grow back over the sand.
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Arnos

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Re: Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2008, 06:49:00 pm »
Oh, good, for a while there I was worried that my map was gradually going to turn into sand. Sorry for making a wrong bug report.

[ February 26, 2008: Message edited by: Arnos ]

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Re: Sand desert turning to rocky wasteland due to tree/plant
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2008, 07:19:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Arnos:
<STRONG>Oh, good, for a while there I was worried that my map was gradually going to turn into sand. Sorry for making a wrong bug report.

[ February 26, 2008: Message edited by: Arnos ]</STRONG>

That's a good thing, unless you prefer herbology to farming.

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