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Author Topic: [SPOILERS] Odd Reclaim accident  (Read 1749 times)

Urist Mchateselves

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[SPOILERS] Odd Reclaim accident
« on: August 16, 2024, 10:12:09 am »
Around a year ago, I tried to Reclaim a destroyed worldgen fortress because I was curious of what they looked like. However, upon embarking, five things happened:
1. Constant message spam about cave ins.
2."Raw cotton candy! Praise the miners!"
3."You have discovered an eerie cavern..."
4."Horrifying screams come from the darkness below!"
5. I look at the announcement locations and low and behold, there is a 3 by 4 hole leading right into the circus, straight through the molten rock. There indeed is an adamantine vein, but it's nowhere near the opening, it's instead at the other end of the map. The cave in spam was being caused by the big hole cutting through both a cave lake and the magma sea which resulted in obsidian forming mid air. And then fun happened.

What the hell was that?
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Re: [SPOILERS] Odd Reclaim accident
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2024, 04:39:40 pm »
There was a bug with reclaims which effects magma pools within the caverns. Normally the magma pool refills at the surface level of the pool, but after a reclaim, the refill layer shifts to some 6 to 10 z-levels above the magma pool near the top of the magma pool's tube-shaft. The result is that once you reclaim the site, magma starts falling into the magma pool from above and eventually flows off the surface of the magma pool and into the cavern areas, starting fires, causing trees to collapse, obsidianizing water pools, and causing all sorts of smoke and mists (sometimes causing short sprees of lag).

Apparently, there was also some way one of those effects was able to release the circus for you... I'm not sure what allowed you to get a visual on any of the locations unless maybe you broke into the caverns and some citizen or animal of your fort is running around in terror and panic. While playing with an embark that had this issue, I had a lot of fun redirecting heavy aquifers into the magma pools to create an obsidian blob to block the magma refill, but your enjoyment of it may vary, especially if the circus is roaming the caverns.
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