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[Aqizzar]

Not a major bug or new one, but something I've noticed since I started playing DF.

When a large area is designated for smoothing or engraving, sometimes a few tiles here and there will lose their designation over time for no discernible reason.  I imagine it's some kind of job cancellation, but it doesn't get reported, and it shouldn't remove the designation tag anyway.

[Cavalcadeofcats]

I know I've seen that before... hm, no, that was fortification-related, actually. This still happens in the current version?

[sq2]

i know i've had this happen when digging out rooms,
whilst smoothing/engraving the walls....
to a lesser extent when building doors too...

i always thought it was because it disrupted the 'closest' side,
like if a diagonal tile was the only place it could be accessed from,
then the adjacent tile was mined, it would un-designate the
smoothing/engraving...

and i've had this happen in the latest version, random un-designations that is...

[MMad]

I've seen this before, last specific case I remember is designating my whole, square dining hall to be smoothed. Some time after it was finished, I noticed a single square was left unsmoothed but not designated. If the job cancellation was ever advertised, I must have missed it.

Doesn't seem to happen too often, which will probably make it hard to figure out and reproduce.

[Yourself]

I've noticed this as well.  It seemed to be worse in much older versions and rarely happens now.  It seems to occur when a dwarf begins smoothing a tile and then decides to do something else and leaves.  The job cancellation seems to sporadically take the designation away too.