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[westside]

I have two questions about the newest version. I downloaded it yesterday and started it up. The first thing I noticed is how much slower it went than 40d. It took me about 15 minutes to simply build a world, and when i was moving the cursor around to select a location on the world map the X would freeze for 10 seconds constantly. When I finally did get into choosing my fortress size and its location, and I'm not kidding, I could NOT find a water source that DIDNT have an aquifer on it. This is in stark contrast to 40d where I could build a world and find a suitable location in under 3 minutes.  My computer is really good, runs Crysis, Bioshock on full settings so I've never had a problem with lag in any game until 31.12. So to sum it up, I have 2 questions:

1. Why is the game so much slower than before??

2. Why is there such an extreme amount of aquifers now?

Thanks in advance.

[Tsukenta]

2. Why is there such an extreme amount of aquifers now?

Thanks in advance.

I don't know why this is, but you can pretty much flip a coin when you generate a world. On heads, most of the awesome embark sights will be aquafers, and on tails, you can't find an aquafire to save your life. I've had entire maps with no aquafers, and ive had entire maps of only aquafers.

[Vastin]

Still no good answer to the blood splatter problem, eh?

One of my hunters got a particularly messy raccoon kill right on one of my external ramps, and now dwarves are starting to track blood everywhere and I'm getting a lot of 'Clean Self Cancelled: Area Inaccessible' messages.

[greycat]

I'm getting a lot of 'Clean Self Cancelled: Area Inaccessible' messages.

This is a soap bug.  Make sure all your soap is either inside a hospital zone's coffers, or forbidden.  Then the dwarves will go to a well to clean themselves instead of trying and failing to use soap.

[McBeer]

So, can we catch fishes through grates, or not?

[Proteus]

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1. Why is the game so much slower than before??

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This is normal...
the world now is more extensive, with 3 cavern layers below earth and lots of critters in there, slowing stuff down (and probably also making pathfinding algorithm calculate longer, especially as the cavern layers can be interconnected to each other)

[Flaede]

So, can we catch fishes through grates, or not?

You can.

[Beeskee]

Is there a way to increase the frequency of the "special features"?  Not just the Spoilers, but also the Spoilers. You know what I mean.

And to the above, you can fish through grates, collect water manually through grates. Cannot lower a well bucket through a grate, though a grate can be below the water level.

[Arekis]

Anyone know if elves bring cats by any chance?  So far it's been about 5-6 years of elf caravans and not a single cat with them.  The two I brought on embark have passed on and there are no dwarven caravans coming...

[ottottott]

Well... Not that i got anything to prove it with but I have had at least 30 elven caravans total and not a single cat or kitten ever. Dwarves do bring them.

[timtek]

Anyone know if elves bring cats by any chance?  So far it's been about 5-6 years of elf caravans and not a single cat with them.  The two I brought on embark have passed on and there are no dwarven caravans coming...

I'm not sure about elves specifically but I have seen caravans bring cats.

EDIT: sorry I didn't see the post right above mine. Uhhhh what he said.

[Neopolis]

Is there a way to quickly jump back to a location? I keep on forgetting where my chasm is.

[Laurin]

Is there a way to quickly jump back to a location? I keep on forgetting where my chasm is.

Hit h for Hotkeys. You can assign one of the F-keys to your current location, rename it (with n) and press z to bind it to the zoom function.

[Arekis]

Well... Not that i got anything to prove it with but I have had at least 30 elven caravans total and not a single cat or kitten ever. Dwarves do bring them.

Then as a followup: are there other vermin-hunter creatures that the elves might bring?  Or are cats the only vermin hunters?

[3]

Cats are the only vermin-hunters in the vanilla game.