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[Badger Storm]

It has it set to autosave every 30 seconds, but also to delete the automatic backup file whenever I save a document.  I have no idea where these backup files would appear.

EDIT: I also have three iterations of DF on my laptop: 40.23, 40.24, and a set of backup raws for 40.24.  I don't know why this would cause a problem.

[Putnam]

Backups will cause duped raws.

[Badger Storm]

Where would I go find those, if there are any?  Would extra installations of the game count as backups?

I'll have to scour my computer for .txt files - any telltale signs of a backup?

[Putnam]

...They'll only cause duped raws if they're in the raw/objects folder.

[Badger Storm]

There is exactly one of each necessary file in the object folders.  Therefore that can't be the problem.  What I mean by "backup raws" is that I have downloaded another instance of DF entirely.  It isn't a "backup save".  It's a completely fresh re-download that hasn't been touched.  Is that what you mean, or is this another dead end?

[Putnam]

No, not what I'm talking about. Post your whole file you have your creature in.

[Badger Storm]

It doesn't matter what creature or what file I put in, it still messes it up.  I was thinking of showing you an affected world anyway, since you know a lot more about this than I do.

Does it matter whether or not a fort has been started?

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=10521

The file is right here.

[Putnam]

Which file is the creature in?

EDIT: Also, saves have their own raws and you have to gen a new world when you remove or add anything to the raws.

[Badger Storm]

The creature is, I believe, in creature_temperate_new.

And I know that, I've been genning worlds like mad the past several days.

[Putnam]

I can find nothing wrong with the save at all. Can you tell me what the problem you're seeing is?

[Badger Storm]

When I create a world, no oysters spawn, pond turtles only sometimes spawn, and only around 10-100k mussels spawn.  I understand that oysters and mussels should both be "innumerable".

[Putnam]

That's not guaranteed, as those creatures are not UBIQUITOUS.

[Badger Storm]

The pond turtles I understand, but it seems like the worlds never gen any oysters, ever.  What's the difference between not spawning, spawning in finite numbers, and being innumerable?

I made oysters ubiquitous and they still didn't spawn.  And yes, I did gen a new world afterwards.


EDIT: More accurately, it made my starting seven into grimelings.

[scamtank]

Yeah no you're duplicating raws like they were money, man. Your "dwarf" has jumped down about 23 places down the array, so I'm guessing there's a whole clone file sitting your raw folder somewhere that's getting read by the game.

[Badger Storm]

I removed the "ubiquitous" tag and it turned everything back to normal-ish.  Oysters and mussels spawned, but no pond turtles.

There isn't a single thing wrong with any of my raws as far as I can tell.  The dwarf is the first one in creature_standards, just as it should be.  I have no idea what a clone file is.  Could it be the "extra" download of dwarf fortress?  I'm pretty sure getting rid of that didn't help anything.