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[martinuzz]

Crazy. I have my FPS and GPS cap set to 50, and so far I have not dropped a single digit yet. (11 dwarves, 130 livestock, not too many items).
I just had 1 cat and 2 dogs stuck behind a pet-impassable door with a cyan questionmark above their head, dropping my FPS a full 10 points to 40.
As soon as I made the doors pet-passable and let them out, FPS went back to full max.

So yeah, something to be wary of.  If you use pet-impassable doors, check them regularily for stuck animals failing to path out.

[Bumber]

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=797

Very long-standing bug.

[Shonai_Dweller]

One of those bugs that should be at the top of the wiki and responsible for 90% of "FPS death killed my fortress in year 3" complaints (probably).

[Fleeting Frames]

Less severe, also beware of chained animals bug - in provided fort, 1 dog makes game take 15% longer to compute a week. It can also happen with a creature that was chained for years fine. I've made a script to fix it, but best pathing stopper remains being fully walled in.

[knutor]

Ive a ton of vermin in my fort. Did two Catsplosions, with dfHack, still have a ton of vermin, kittens cannot kill um. Now with a dozen or more kittens. I think kittens produce less door lag, than cats. But omg, does a clutch of 60 gator eggs hatching cause lag.

Ive got dogs chained near my levers. Chain has no slack, tho. Justice chains and cages, same. Is chained petbug occur when chain range dialed back to 1x1?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I do have range setup on the confessional cages and chains, in my temples. Not able to see my FPS, unsure if this is bogging me down.

[pisskop]

Its my crundle detector.  build a door by the caverns if fps drops, its a crundle trying to path in.

[Fleeting Frames]

@knutor: are you speaking of designating chains as rooms? I don't know if that has any effect; all the examples of bugged chained creatures are with just built chain and creature assigned.

@pisskop: Heh. Maybe add a low-weight pressure plate that releases refreshing cloud of magma mist?

[knutor]

@ff, yes.  as rooms of 1x1, placed near(line of sight) by levers. yes, too. also in spoiler, as meeting places in temples of full default size, overtop of already painted meeting places. dorfs use cage as a confessional, they sure like to mingle around them.

My bug with chain is removing the animal. Dorfs never come and remove him, must be a really low priority, animal handling, because they will remove chain, quicker.

@pisskop, how do you resist the urge to funnel your caverns to one door. I cannot break this bad habit of using dfHack and /liquids, to pattern off my caverns, into kill traps. Ive got everything pathing in cavern 1 and 2, where nasty monsters progress into 3 catapult and 1 balista funnel. Its wrong I know, to abuse pathing, but this version has a lot of intrigue, outside the fort,  I must absolutely preserve ea and every dorf to his utmost, to afford a campaigning army, that constantly bleeds off its captains.

[pisskop]

I usually use a bridge to manually close the caverns off, but will intentionally leave it down most of the time.  Most of the time I have a few entrances to a cavern.  1 bridge for general use.  1 or 2 exploratory tunnels that may or may not lead to the surface and have a mechanism to seal it.  1 side door for emergencies.  And finally I may have a few cisterns receiving water from the caverns.   Tjere are ways of making every one of them relatively or completely safe, depending on my mood at the time.


Usually, I force either or both of my farming or grazing to take place down there, so that I have some skin in the game.  I make use of traps and dogs and pits and the like though.  Itd be unsporting to not let anything in.  I often have weavers and the like who go out there at the least.

One thing Im less fond of is GCS.  GCS and, depending on my forts militia strength, BCO.  Blind cave ogres and Spiders will absolutely run armok if you let them.  Crundles will disrupt workflow and make a mess with all their blood, but ogres are significantly harder to kill for a yearling fort.

And caccodemons.  If there are caccodemons I wont even entertain farming down there, because its a matter of when not if somebody dies.

[knutor]

Thank you.

[anewaname]

My bug with chain is removing the animal. Dorfs never come and remove him, must be a really low priority, animal handling, because they will remove chain, quicker.

Do you attempt to remove the animal by un-assigning the animal from the chain, or do you attempt to assign the animal to another location (another restraint or a pasture)?

[knutor]

pretty certain, I choose none. or nothing. Ontop of that chain menu. Animalhandler prolly doesnt know what to do with it, without an activity pen painted overtop... betcha thats it.

[Pillbo]

Less severe, also beware of chained animals bug - in provided fort, 1 dog makes game take 15% longer to compute a week. It can also happen with a creature that was chained for years fine. I've made a script to fix it, but best pathing stopper remains being fully walled in.

fix/pathchain

pathchain.lua is a script for solving Bug:10564.

Like above, runs once, for use repeat -time 1 -timeUnits days -command [ fix/pathchain ] -name pathchain

This doesn't really help me understand how to use the script.

[Bumber]

fix/pathchain

pathchain.lua is a script for solving Bug:10564.

Like above, runs once, for use repeat -time 1 -timeUnits days -command [ fix/pathchain ] -name pathchain

This doesn't really help me understand how to use the script.

Save this code as pathchain.lua in /hack/scripts/fix folder.

Add this line to onLoad.init:

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repeat -time 1 -timeUnits days -command [ fix/pathchain ] -name pathchain
The script will automatically run every in-game day.

[Pillbo]

Thank you for the clarity.