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[Dareon Clearwater]

Playing on the "island fortress" seed (111121519, 257x257), I decided to build a grand bridge across the river to the northeast of the island.  Naturally, I wanted to do things right.  I waited for winter, the water froze, and I began excavating and sinking supports into the riverbed.  With the abundant material, I decided to use ice for my scaffolding, which worked fine for the first year.  In the second year, I finally got the bridge finished, but it's now midsummer and my scaffolding hasn't melted.  It's on the outside of the bridge, and it all reads as Outside Above Ground.  Testing things, I dismantled a section of scaffolding I had on the ground, and the leftover chunk of ice melted.

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[ May 08, 2008: Message edited by: Dareon Clearwater ]

[Asehujiko]

Constructed walls and floors are completely indestructable.

[Dareon Clearwater]

Interesting.  Good to know, but I'm still considering it half a bug, just for the suspension of verisimilitude.  (What's worse than a bug in your apple? Half a bug!)

Other, more minor bugs:

Graphical:  When building a microcline tower, the microcline door on the ground floor showed blue as normal, but the ones on higher floors showed black lines.

Job manager:  I had a "Make Charcoal: 6" job queued and approved, but not yet begun when I realized I needed more charcoal to forge what I needed.  I added another "Make Charcoal: 6" job and hit T to give it top priority.  As far as I know, my manager never got around to approving the job, yet the build queue worked through the unapproved higher job before starting on the lower approved one.

[Dareon Clearwater]

Two more:

Melting ice and support: During the winter, I mined out the underside of a small island in a river delta, leaving the ground above.  Come spring, I thought, the ice would melt, sending the surface layer to Urist Jones' Cabinet.  When spring hit, the freeze/thaw cycle thawed the river first, leaving the lake it flowed into frozen for several more weeks.  Once the lake finally thawed... nothing.  No collapse.  However, after I saved and reloaded in order to create a backup point for the mechanism I was about to test, as soon as I loaded the map, the cave-in happened.

You brought a large WHAT?:  This one has been reported before, I am simply noting it has occurred for me as well.  A human caravan recently (Still in my trade depot as I write this) brought a well-crafted large .  Priced at 40 dwarfbucks, weighs six dwarfpounds.