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Seriyu

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World gen crashing regularly.
« on: November 15, 2013, 03:46:45 am »
So! I've just started testing a recent version of my mod. I've added quite a bit of STUFF since I last tested, so I unfortunately don't know exactly what could be setting it off. One thing that comes to mind is I have several plants used for "middling" steps in plant processing that do not spawn in the world, nor have seeds, nor have anything but a structural mat, and maybe an alcohol/milling/extract mat. But it seems to be crashing shortly after civilization generation, in the first few years of the world history, so I don't think it'd be the plants.

Are there any common causes of world gen crashes? I doubt it's taking up too much memory, there really isn't enough to the mod for that to happen yet I'd think. The error log is completely empty.

So uhh, yeah. Any common causes of world gen crashes? Or should I start systematically removing what I added and see what's setting it off? :P 

EDIT: Naturally it works on the fourth try without a hitch. It still seems to be giving me trouble most of the time though.
« Last Edit: November 15, 2013, 03:52:08 am by Seriyu »
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Re: World gen crashing regularly.
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2013, 03:57:12 am »
does worldgen always crash?.
what stage does it crash at
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Seriyu

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Re: World gen crashing regularly.
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2013, 03:58:22 am »
While it's generating the history, usually less then ten years in, sometimes before it even starts generating the history, although it made it up to 30 years once on a small world.

EDIT: Oh, and it made it through twice, once when I commented out megabeasts (didn't try more then one with that, gonna try it some more to make sure), and once seemingly completely at random.

EDIT2: Yeah, it definitely seems to be the megabeasts. I'll go ahead and post my megabeast raws and people can point out if anything seems particularly out of whack.

Spoiler: Megabeast raws, the bits at the top aren't there due to commenting the megabeasts out, and Benkei is an actual historical figure so I didn't want his appearance jumping around too much. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The interaction Mishaguji there is using (click to show/hide)

I did try something new with that interaction, so it's entirely possible that I've caused some kind of terrible world gen chain reaction.
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Re: World gen crashing regularly.
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2013, 07:57:34 am »
Creatures dont use interactions in world-gen. So its certainly not the cause. But your megabeast is missing a lair, which can cause crashes. I remember that all BIOME:ANY_LAND MEGABEAST without a lair assigned can cause worldgen to crash. Maybe it helps.
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Seriyu

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Re: World gen crashing regularly.
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2013, 06:56:08 pm »
That certainly seems to have done it! Thanks Meph.
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Re: World gen crashing regularly.
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2013, 07:33:23 pm »
Quote from: Seriyu on November 15, 2013, 06:56:08 pm
That certainly seems to have done it! Thanks Meph.
YEAH!  :D Happy to help, I know how frustrating crashes can be.
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Seriyu

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Re: World gen crashing regularly.
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2013, 08:57:26 pm »
Definitely! I saw it happen and was basically like "well this is gonna take all night". Ends up it was fairly simple! I'll be sure to run a world gen periodically to make sure nothing I'm adding is breaking anything from now on.
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