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Koji

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What causes the flashing soil bug?
« on: May 22, 2010, 05:47:05 am »
I've been extensively modding my game, and I've bumped into a hilarious bug where the surface soil rapidly cycles through every single type. I dig down into it and I get "rock" walls and floors.

Down below the first layer, everything seems normal. What's usually the cause of this bug?
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Re: What causes the flashing soil bug?
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2010, 06:09:52 am »
Hmmm, do you want to say that it blinks like it was composed of gemstone pebbles?

That means 'Wizard Fortress'.

That means, you have duplicated raw entries, somewhere, causing the whole game to screw up.

Or you deleted raws files for rocks and other stuff.
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Re: What causes the flashing soil bug?
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2010, 07:15:16 am »
Basically what hes saying is to redownload/unpack a fresh (vanilla) copy of dwarf fortress. Download the most recent version of whatever tile set you use, and itll be sweet
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Re: What causes the flashing soil bug?
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2010, 07:39:09 am »
Quote from: Haspen on May 22, 2010, 06:09:52 am
Hmmm, do you want to say that it blinks like it was composed of gemstone pebbles?

That means 'Wizard Fortress'.

That means, you have duplicated raw entries, somewhere, causing the whole game to screw up.

Or you deleted raws files for rocks and other stuff.

oh boy!

No, I didn't change any of the soil layers very much. The problem popped up after I edited some creatures. Yeah, it's exactly like "Wizard Fortress" except it's only occurring in certain areas.
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Re: What causes the flashing soil bug?
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2010, 08:19:01 am »
what does your errorlog.txt say?
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Re: What causes the flashing soil bug?
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2010, 12:41:04 pm »
Quote from: Deon on May 22, 2010, 08:19:01 am
what does your errorlog.txt say?

I found some old DUPLICATE ENTRY listings for a few bonus metals I added a long time ago. I didn't see the bug until tonight. I guess it was confined to areas where the rare metals were actually present? Who knows.
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Re: What causes the flashing soil bug?
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2010, 01:44:54 pm »
You get the duplicate error the moment you generate a world, so no.
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Re: What causes the flashing soil bug?
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2010, 01:52:33 pm »
Has the brightness been set too high? Have you not set a proper tile for it? Have you pressed Shift+F instead of Ctrl+F when looking through minerals_soil and put a big "F" in the middle of the title by mistake?
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Re: What causes the flashing soil bug?
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2010, 05:13:24 pm »
Go to your raws/objects folder and delete "inorganic_stone_layer - Copy.txt"

See if that helps   :)
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