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Derakon

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Negative distance to building supplies
« on: May 01, 2008, 09:06:00 pm »

I've put the savefile up here, but sadly, on reloading the game, I couldn't get the display to do that again. I did notice, right before trying to build that kitchen, that my dwarves canceled some tasks with "could not find path". It looks like the ramps I put in instead of stairs are causing the problem - if I turn off mining for one of the miners, he stands next to the ramp, spamming "could not find path" over and over again, which also probably qualifies as a bug (he should do it once and then idle out).

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Re: Negative distance to building supplies
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2008, 05:29:00 pm »

Are you sure that your ramps have supporting walls?
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Re: Negative distance to building supplies
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2008, 06:46:00 pm »

The problem is probably the fixed-but-not-out-yet bug with how removing supports from a ramp doesn't fix up the path components.  So, don't dig out walls behind ramps; or if you have to, save and reload immediately afterwards.
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Re: Negative distance to building supplies
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2008, 08:07:00 pm »

Or build a hand-made wall.
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Re: Negative distance to building supplies
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2008, 09:47:00 pm »

I'm perfectly capable of fixing design flaws in my fortress; the point of this thread was to report a bug wherein you can get negative distances to resources when trying to construct buildings.
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