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isitanos

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[33g] Cave river waterfall kills all critters
« on: February 01, 2008, 08:51:00 pm »
When we have the chance of getting a cave river on our fortress map (which is quite hard without cheating), it seems to end most of the time in a waterfall that falls into a bottomless chasm. Most of the river creatures end up falling in it and dying.

Several people have reported about this already, can it be fixed? It's kind of disappointing to find a depopulated river when you expected some action.

A minor bug related to that: creatures that fall this way into the waterfall appear on the unit list when they are dead, even though you haven't discovered the river yet.

Also, I think people would appreciate rivers that have banks like they used to, with some tower-caps growing...

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Re: [33g] Cave river waterfall kills all critters
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2008, 11:49:00 pm »
As a sidenote, I once had this happen when I was exploring some mountains with an adventurer - out of nowhere there are several announcements about giant olmmen and snakemen falling into a deep chasm 9.9

Since all the announcements happened at once, (and there weren't any subsequent announcements), it seems likely that they actually spawned in the open space above the waterfall down.

[ February 03, 2008: Message edited by: Keldor ]

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Re: [33g] Cave river waterfall kills all critters
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2008, 12:01:00 am »
The Snakeman is no longer stunned.
The Snakeman has fallen into a deep chasm.

Replace snakeman with any creature that spawns in cave rivers, and that's what you always see when you go to a mountain tile in Adventure mode.

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Re: [33g] Cave river waterfall kills all critters
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2008, 12:28:00 am »
Came across a cave river recently.  I was scoping out my area with reveal.exe, and saw all the critters in the river.

It was kinda funny, actually.  You could see a little group of a giant frog, a lizardman, and a cave crocodile a couple tiles from the chasm.  They were all swimming like mad against the pull of the river, and were frantically swimming over each other (not entirely sure how you lie down underwater to let someone else pass, but they were doing it) in a mad dash to get away from the waterfall of doom...

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Re: [33g] Cave river waterfall kills all critters
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2008, 03:54:00 am »
I think this should be considered more of a feature than a bug.  :p
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