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Author Topic: 176.38c Floating and disappearing materials.  (Read 401 times)

Dorten

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176.38c Floating and disappearing materials.
« on: March 28, 2008, 07:45:00 am »
There's how to reproduce bug.

Build door
build wall above door (ashen in my case)
remove wall: material floats above door, dwarves can't get it
remove door: material floats in the air (i thought, maybe it'll fall)
build floor on this place: material disappears completely (i thought, that dwarves would be able to reclaim material, then i'll remove floor, without a door, so it's material will fall. No luck)

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Re: 176.38c Floating and disappearing materials.
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2008, 09:24:00 am »
Workaround: begin building the wall on top of the floating item, but before it's done, cancel the job.  The item falls.
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Re: 176.38c Floating and disappearing materials.
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2008, 09:32:00 am »
The dev notes for yesterday mention this:
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# stopped channeled walls above constructions from leaving rocks inside the construction
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Re: 176.38c Floating and disappearing materials.
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2008, 10:08:00 am »
Expanding on this one: Built a tower with windows. In the upper floor of the tower the windows had nothing to "cap" them. When I collapsed the tower the windows that weren't capped remained floating several z-levels above the ground.
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Re: 176.38c Floating and disappearing materials.
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2008, 09:01:00 pm »
The door bug was reported a few weeks ago and is Bug 806, although I'm not sure why the material would disappear.  The window bug might be related to 398/677, but I'm not sure I understand how the tower is constructed.  All of the windows are built on floors in a column, with no top floor over the last window?
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