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NahNahNahNah_SLUGMAN

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Cave spider extinction
« on: November 26, 2007, 09:13:00 am »

I had a nice game going near a large chasm with a healthy dyed spider-silk clothing trade. I was buying out all of the caravans and then it happened. No more webs! No more bitten dwarves and pets! No more economy! I haven't seen a new web for over a year. Is there something I did to my precious spiders or is there a way to get them back?
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Bullion

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Re: Cave spider extinction
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2007, 09:27:00 am »

are there any non overly dug out Z levels at the chasm? if not, try digging out a new Bit, more Should spawn, but i'm not sure, Mabye you just overtook the web production and the spiders starved?
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Sean Mirrsen

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Re: Cave spider extinction
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2007, 09:27:00 am »

First guess, a cat playfully killed them. Another guess, your trappers caught them, and then they were eaten on the animal stockpile. The spiders, I mean. Yet another guess - the damn spider just ran away. I had it happen once, a spider was fuelling my silk trade, then disappeared for a long time. Then he resurfaced, and was coming and going periodically for some time.
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Re: Cave spider extinction
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2007, 09:52:00 am »

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are there any non overly dug out Z levels at the chasm? if not, try digging out a new Bit, more Should spawn, but i'm not sure, Mabye you just overtook the web production and the spiders starved?

Hmmm, so maybe the 4 Looms and 3 Dyers workshops were a bad idea after all. If that's it I have to give mad props to the coder for thinking that one through.

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Yet another guess - the damn spider just ran away. I had it happen once, a spider was fuelling my silk trade, then disappeared for a long time. Then he resurfaced, and was coming and going periodically for some time.

That's what I was guessing. I had almost too many webs showing up each year (hence the 4 looms) and most of them outdoors then nada. Although the place is cold most of the year. I wonder if that does anything to the spider population.
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