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TheShotgunSurgeon

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Is this possible?!
« on: October 08, 2011, 06:25:24 am »
Salutations, recently my fortress came under siege, the siege was rather "Interesting" and "Fun" I didn't know what to do and it turns out that 40 dwarfs can be slaughtered within a time period of 5 minutes. Anyhow I got the drawbridge up and my fortress survived at the time I did not know what tantrum spirals where. But that's not the reason for me posting this thread. I came across something rather peculiar. One of my miners went rather insane and started throwing a tantrum and one turned another and he started digging in the direction of the nearby river. It drowned half my fortress!

My question to you is WHY? Is this a bug? Is this programed to happen? At one point I did have a designation to dig there because I did not know how water wheels worked but I canceled it before the miner started digging. The only plausible explanation I can think of is that the designation somehow stayed and it was coincidence that it just started mining when he threw a tantrum.

What do you think?
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Re: Is this possible?!
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2011, 06:33:18 am »
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« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2011, 07:25:42 am »
I've never heard of this before. Designations don't "stay" after you remove them, so this is really rather odd.

To quote that old chestnut: supply daggerogues, or I shall judge that this event did not, in fact, transpire.
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Re: Is this possible?!
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2011, 07:29:29 am »
Dwarves have been never known to just start digging on their own without a designation.  You probably still had the digging designation in place.
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« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2011, 08:00:58 am »
yeah, depending on the soil/rock color they're very hard to spot.
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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2011, 11:26:45 am »
Never heard of a dwarf deliberately digging in an undesignated area just to fuck everyone over.

I DID however see crazy dwarves pulling the levers they weren't supposed to.
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« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2011, 01:10:16 pm »
Quote from: Victuz on October 08, 2011, 11:26:45 am
Never heard of a dwarf deliberately digging in an undesignated area just to fuck everyone over.

I DID however see crazy dwarves pulling the levers they weren't supposed to.

Yeah, that's normal for berserk dorfs. It leads to lots of fun.
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« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2011, 01:12:35 pm »
Perhaps the designation was on sand or similarly colored and was just difficult to see?
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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2011, 09:33:50 pm »
Thank you all for your replies, it is very possible that I could not see the designation due to the surrounding rock.
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