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Author Topic: possible bug: naming of resident animals that are still hidden  (Read 762 times)

bz-mof

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I know that the dwarves gibt resident animals names after three years of being in their surrounding.
(The dwarves have given a resident ... the name ....)

But is this intended if you don't even know that they are there?
Most of them are also in the units list so you can easily spot a other hidden feature by the animals living in it..
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Re: possible bug: naming of resident animals that are still hidden
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2009, 05:07:31 pm »

It's not supposed to show creatures in hidden squares -- what happens when you zoom to them from the unit list, if you can do so?
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Re: possible bug: naming of resident animals that are still hidden
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2009, 05:22:25 am »

it zoomed to a subterranean position somewhere where everything was hidden.
I have not digged into that place yet.
Btw: Now the stocks screen shows some antman bones and more and more cave spider silk thread around this place, so I guess the antmen are all dead. But I have no named cave spider till now.
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Re: possible bug: naming of resident animals that are still hidden
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2009, 06:08:19 am »

I'm not sure about the units list, but bones of chasm\river\pool creatures that have died will be detected by the stockpile master dwarf even before the feature is known to exist, and (presumably) increase fortress wealth. Not a huge problem imo, the stockmaster is psychic.
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Re: possible bug: naming of resident animals that are still hidden
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2009, 10:19:07 pm »

I'm not sure about the units list, but bones of chasm\river\pool creatures that have died will be detected by the stockpile master dwarf even before the feature is known to exist, and (presumably) increase fortress wealth. Not a huge problem imo, the stockmaster is psychic.

Yeah, this one at least is known:
# 000531 □ [dwarf mode][interface][stocks]    stocks screen shows hidden spider web items (and other hidden objects)
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