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[Libash_Thunderhead]

I built a caravan trap trading platform that was supported by a pillar *cough*.
But when I pulled the lever and caused the expected cave-in, the game just froze up.
At first I thought it crashed, but after 10 minutes waiting, the game returned to normal, leaving some dead merchants.


Edit*

And floating wagons.




Edit*

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=162044.0

[gunpowdertea]

Well... a cave in causes a fuckton of calculations to be done, for dust and related effects, for the flying items, stuff that might be crushing through layers, all that. As a single-thread program (I believe the graphics are on an independent thread, but I'm not sure of that - but for sure DF is not parallelized to any real extent), all that will take a while to calculate. The floating wagons are... a different issue.

[StagnantSoul]

Huh... A gold breastplate... With an image of my militia commander, striking down a hydra... Assign to him... Or no...

[Libash_Thunderhead]

Maybe there were too many items because a normal cave in doesn't freeze the game for that long.

I tried it another time, the game crashed after several minutes.

[steel jackal]

out of curiousity what CPU do you have? im interested in how the CPU affects DF since it has to do so many things with only 1 thread

[bloop_bleep]

Yeah, I think it's because of the large number of items. A normal human caravan has like 200 items, I think, so it takes even more time to calculate what to do with all of those.

[PatrikLundell]

It's not purely an issue of the number of items. A coin-star had 1000 coins without an issue (apart from it changing from a training device to an injury device as DF changed). There were presumably a fairly large number of creatures involved as well.

[bloop_bleep]

Oh yes, has to calculate the cave-in damage for all them. But wait, can they get harmed if they're in cages?...