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Author Topic: Surfing Dwarves.  (Read 1607 times)

Kohou

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Surfing Dwarves.
« on: May 31, 2009, 08:52:41 pm »
I have a river, and...
You know what, I'll show you.
Here:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

He's not swimming, because they've done it 3 or 4 times without their swimming skill going up.  Plus the water is the level below them, and it's 7/7.
He's not getting pulled downstream, because he's going across the stream right now, and I've seen them go back to the wagon.
All I can figure is, he's surfing?

Anyway, I'm curious whether this should be counted as a bug.  But I also wanted to show off this weirdness.
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Re: Surfing Dwarves.
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2009, 08:55:56 pm »
Is it a brook?
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Heliman

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Re: Surfing Dwarves.
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2009, 08:56:27 pm »
That's a Brook, dwarves can walk on them.
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Re: Surfing Dwarves.
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2009, 08:56:51 pm »
Here is a visual aid to this topic:



Also: I have seen dwarves being pushed by a wave, usually after tunneling out the area under a river. It may be that they are choosing to head back, even though they will go into the water again to get to mining designations a second later. It seems like surfing. I don't think it works on ocean waves though - but I haven't really tested it.
« Last Edit: May 31, 2009, 09:03:11 pm by Decanter »
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Heliman

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Re: Surfing Dwarves.
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2009, 09:02:56 pm »
Actually, I've been pushed back by waves on my adventurer.
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Re: Surfing Dwarves.
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2009, 12:44:13 am »
Quote from: Kohou on May 31, 2009, 08:52:41 pm
I have a river, and...

...He's not swimming...

Anyway, I'm curious whether this should be counted as a bug.

It's a known "feature".  If you look, the dwarfs are not even wet.

A brook is not a river - it's not a barrier to travel, or to anything.  even tho' it shows a lower z-level of water, it's as if that didn't exist - you can build on it, you can drop items on it, you can designate a stockpile on it.

You can think of it as having a sort of "grate" over the top. One a dwarf can fish through.  If you channel down, then it becomes like a river, and you can see water flowing - now dwarfs can fall in, and drop items, etc etc.  This is needed to make a well over a brook.
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