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[Elone]

So, after a long while of searching for THE embark location... you know, the usual... No aquifier, trees, river, flux, and magnetite in it... I finally found one map, and cheered! Although the FPS dropped to about 34, immediately, at embark. It should be at least 100-200... Anyway, this is NOT a question about FPS, but I looked up and I found that I have too much sky in my map. How much? I gave up counting after rising to Z level of 700. And I have read somewhere on this forum recently that sky can eat up resources easily, and much too easily for how little use it normally has.

Info? Advice? I wont ask anything too specific, just in case that someone has something useful to say, that was NOT in my questions... Well, aside from the most obvious one, how do I reduce amount of sky in a map?

[Necro910]

So, after a long while of searching for THE embark location... you know, the usual... No aquifier, trees, river, flux, and magnetite in it... I finally found one map, and cheered! Although the FPS dropped to about 34, immediately, at embark. It should be at least 100-200... Anyway, this is NOT a question about FPS, but I looked up and I found that I have too much sky in my map. How much? I gave up counting after rising to Z level of 700. And I have read somewhere on this forum recently that sky can eat up resources easily, and much too easily for how little use it normally has.

Info? Advice? I wont ask anything too specific, just in case that someone has something useful to say, that was NOT in my questions... Well, aside from the most obvious one, how do I reduce amount of sky in a map?

I'm wondering how to find out how much there is in a map.

[Elone]

Still, too much is too much. Some of my FPS-fastest maps have had only 15 Zs up from the embark location. And I never needed even that many!

[BodyGripper]

When I saw the title of this, my first thought was "FILL IT WITH STONE!"

Now that I've actually read it, I have no idea if that would help at all (probably not).  It'd still be cool, though.

[Elone]

I have more air in my map than I have stone. No, that would not help... I'm clueless... still.

[Necro910]

I have more air in my map than I have stone. No, that would not help... I'm clueless... still.

For once, I have the logical answer.

MAGMAAAAA

[RTiger]

If there are that many z levels aboveground, you might have a spire.

[Elone]

A spire? Is that a premade feature somewhere in the world that goes up and up and up? If you mean "You could build a spire", umm, no I'm not in a mood for one. I'd much rather go down, like a dwarf should.

[slink]

Or some collapsing layers way up high?

[Elone]

Come to mention it, there was an immediate collapse upon embark. The screen centered somewhere underground. What does this mean, and how does it affect me?

[Necro910]

Come to mention it, there was an immediate collapse upon embark. The screen centered somewhere underground. What does this mean, and how does it affect me?

Probably a magma pipe. They delete some squares around them sometimes via "Cave-in", when really it's just deleting. Nothing bad.


_{Or it might be Hell opening up... but that's unlikely.}

[Elone]

Okay, I made another neat map, and this one had only 22 sky Z levels. Same FPS loss. What is so wrong? Did this new DF version cause such a big drop by itself? THis isnt Minecraft... the FPS should not drop so much with new versions.

[DrKillPatient]

I've got the latest version and I don't seem to be having any noticeable FPS drops-- I doubt it's that. Try a clean install, maybe, and see if that fixes it?