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Scribble

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Items lost during abandonment?
« on: July 12, 2007, 11:15:00 am »
In a bid to create a dwarf hero i abandoned a Fortress. My 7th dwarf actually broke the waves of gremlins and Iron men and penitrated the fortress. However, the great majority of goods outside those in workshops has vanished including all the dropped artifacts.. Is this normal?

(..I gathered that the valuable items, platinum steal armour ect migrates to the deepest point (in this case the adamantium pit. But as said there was perhaps a 10th of the manufactured goods there.)

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Mechanoid

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Re: Items lost during abandonment?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2007, 12:58:00 pm »
All the way up and down the cave and lava rivers are small banks. Even if they're inaccessable, items will still be placed on them... It could be possible that after visiting the fortress so many times (adventure mode advances 1 week or so per adventurer creation) all the items were move into these locations.

And of course [the items that can rot have rotted away into nothing, reducing the amount of items in your fort considerably.]

[ July 12, 2007: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

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Re: Items lost during abandonment?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2007, 04:30:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Mechanoid:
<STRONG>Even if they're inaccessable, items will still be placed on them... </STRONG>

Does this mean that items can be placed on unmined tiles, or only that items can be placed in the chasm, river, magma flow, or pits?

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Grek

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Re: Items lost during abandonment?
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2007, 05:31:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Neopergoss:
<STRONG>

Does this mean that items can be placed on unmined tiles, or only that items can be placed in the chasm, river, magma flow, or pits?</STRONG>

All locations marked with a period are places where items can go, even if you cannot realy walk there.

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