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Maolagin

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Power mining "fixed"
« on: July 24, 2014, 03:09:45 pm »
Urist McAntigravEngineer has been found dead, badly crushed!

I thought I saw Toady mention a while back that he hadn't made any physics changes in this version, but lo and behold, it appears that the sky support bug has been fixed. I just tried "power mining" in an attempt to quickly create a world-gen style dwarven entrance shaft, but even going down through all the caves filling in gaps I couldn't get the central shaft to cave in.

So then I had some doomed fools pull out the stairs at ground level and yup, supports no longer glue stuff to the sky, either.

Can't find a corresponding report in the bug tracker, so no idea if the issue is known to be closed.
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Re: Power mining "fixed"
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2014, 12:50:07 am »
We can't attach things to the sky anymore? I guess I'll have to settle for balancing a whole fort on one soap support instead. And then wait for a building destroyer.
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Re: Power mining "fixed"
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2014, 01:50:39 am »
Toady might not have INTENTIONALLY fixed it.  It could be a side effect of adding something like new HFS, for instance.
Or you're misremembering.
Or I guess Toady could indeed be a dirty liar who should feel bad, but we will still love him anyway.  :P
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