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[nunix]

A dragon came and laid waste to the outside of my fort; huuuuge sections of grassland fried. My depot is now very inaccessible due to the ashen squares coming up as can't-be-travelled-on, apparently.

Is this actually a  bug, or a design call?

[DMG]

I had this issue too.  The dragon wasn't ultimately as big a problem as the ashes left by its single use of the breath attack.  Looks like shrubs too small to impede traffic produce enough ash to block it.

I worked around it by building floors on the ashen tiles.  I'm just glad it didn't use the ability more - I might've had a lot of ground to patch!

It'd actually have been convenient if my dwarfs could just collect the ash for potash-making though, as I hate burning perfectly good wood for that.  ^_-

[Karlito]

Could you just build a dirt road on the ash?

[numerobis]

I thought the dwarves would indeed use the ashes as bars of ash, but I've been known to delude myself.

[Toady One]

This is a bug.  I'll note it down.  A lot of things changed when I updated the tile types before the 3D release, and I've missed some cases in places.

[nunix]

Cool. Let me know if you need a save (although I imagine you have tricks to just spawn dragons and such  .

[Toady One]

Yeah, I'll likely just ash the map.  I could also make the Polar Bear Placement Tool spawn a dragon, but I suppose that's a roundabout way of doing things.

[Puzzlemaker]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>Yeah, I'll likely just ash the map.  I could also make the Polar Bear Placement Tool spawn a dragon, but I suppose that's a roundabout way of doing things.</STRONG>

Wait, what?

[Alfador]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>Yeah, I'll likely just ash the map.  I could also make the Polar Bear Placement Tool spawn a dragon, but I suppose that's a roundabout way of doing things.</STRONG>

Ah, just because we mere mortals have to rely on third-party things like Dwarf Companion doesn't mean Toady One doesn't have his own set of dev tools at his disposal.

And "Polar Bear Placement Tool" is just AWESOME as a name for a creature spawner.

[Cthulhu]

Is that a Lost reference?