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[Grax]

Дык вот.

The history:
Year 20. The fortress started.
Year 21. There has been made some adamantine weapons and armor.
All that were stacked in a handmade cave, behind the locked doors (1) and the bridge (2) that operated by the lever situated near it and covering the specially carefully channelled moat.
There were many other things created during everyday fortress life like food/drink/clothing/weapons/bags/bars/stones/bones and other trash.

Year 22. Orxz invasion repelled. Some preparations for adventure mode. And then i abandon the fortress.

Year 23. Started playing in adventure mode hoping to find adamantine stuff. Fool.
When i arrived to the fortress (maybe some days travelling from the start date) there were many friendly Orxz many stuff dispersed all around.
The bridge (2) was on his place, rised making impassable wall. Level made it passable ;-)
The second stop were at the doors (1), all of them were locked too, so i bashed them out before i saw that... NO stuff behind. WTF??!

Strangely the iron/copper/slag stuff i've made to train smiths were all on their places, nobody interested in it - and all that were lying openly in underground stockpiles connected with tens of stairs here and there.

I was deeply grieved seeing all my fruitless efforts during fortress mode.
But then i decided to search all orxz bodies (they were alive till then) - but they were carrying no adamantine weapons, nor armors, not a single one piece of my dwarves works (BUT those masterful works WERE in legends!, i've checked).

Some stuff i've found lying +-2 squares (map squares that are of 48 step) around the fortress and that were just some gauntlets, arrows and adamantine bars, but no armor, no weapons.

So... WTF?
My precious masterwork adamantine stuff dissipated from behind the bridge and doors. HOW?

Maybe it have to be stored in a pit without a stair/ramp?
But how then i take it out of there? Maybe adventurer can jump down a level and up and i don't know about it? ;-)


*Also i'm complaining about hemorroidal inventory shuffling system to wield a weapon in the right hand and put a bar in THAT ONE leather bag!*

[Simmura McCrea]

Stuff goes walkabouts when you abandon. The heavier it is, the less it moves. Next time, chuck all the stuff you want to keep in a lead bin.

[piecewise]

Stuff goes walkabouts when you abandon. The heavier it is, the less it moves. Next time, chuck all the stuff you want to keep in a lead bin.

He has a point though. The game really shouldn't move things that would be impossible to access.

[Rakonas]

It really shouldn't instantly move stuff through doors either. You slaughter an entire human capital, leave one square and come back and there are body parts and clothes every couple tiles. Why?

[Simmura McCrea]

Faries?

[ProfessorA]

Yeah right I stopped believing in the corpse fairy when I was like 10 years old.  Freakin kiddie stuff.
Turns out it was my parents picking up the corpses and leaving me clothes the whole time, just making up stories to maintain my "innocence" or something

[piecewise]

Yeah right I stopped believing in the corpse fairy when I was like 10 years old.  Freakin kiddie stuff.
Turns out it was my parents picking up the corpses and leaving me clothes the whole time, just making up stories to maintain my "innocence" or something

Reminded me of this
http://www.enterthejabberwock.com/?p=449

[Elliott_Thinas]

Yeah right I stopped believing in the corpse fairy when I was like 10 years old.  Freakin kiddie stuff.
Turns out it was my parents picking up the corpses and leaving me clothes the whole time, just making up stories to maintain my "innocence" or something

I laughed for almost a minute at that and got some very funny looks.

[Rowanas]

Great. No Christmas, no birthdays, no Hanukkah, no quanza and now I discover that I never even got the corpse fairy. Being a Jehovah's witness sucks

[MrFake]

Great. No Christmas, no birthdays, no Hanukkah, no quanza and now I discover that I never even got the corpse fairy. Being a Jehovah's witness sucks

ProfessorA wins.

Rowanas conquers!

[Rowanas]

Y'know, you could always sig me to show your appreciation...

[Grimlocke]

Its probably usefull to add that any item that weighs more than 1000 units doesnt scatter. Adamantine in wooden bins allways scatters, wooden bins with copper rubbish is heavy as hell, it doesnt scatter.

This also goes for stuff left by adventurers, as I found out after embarking on a backpack with a ton of corpses in it. Amusingly the backpack even prevented rotting. Just dont ask me why I stuffed a backpack full of corpses.

Anyhow, use heavy metals like lead, gold and platinum to make bins, those never scatter.

[Rowanas]

I'm going to be making special bins for my adamantine stuff using imported lead. It will be like Sarah Connor's tomb...

[madrain]

Yeah right I stopped believing in the corpse fairy when I was like 10 years old.  Freakin kiddie stuff.
Turns out it was my parents picking up the corpses and leaving me clothes the whole time, just making up stories to maintain my "innocence" or something

I lol'd so hard

[CobaltKobold]

Its probably usefull to add that any item that weighs more than 1000 units doesnt scatter. Adamantine in wooden bins allways scatters, wooden bins with copper rubbish is heavy as hell, it doesnt scatter.

The contained-relationship seems to only last one reload, though, which means that instead of a lead bin containing your goods, you have a lead bin with your goods next to them...which means they'll scatter next go.