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BurnedToast

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Lake Failure
« on: May 28, 2008, 07:59:00 pm »

I found a small enough lake that I could select the whole thing for my fort, so I figured why not? and did.

Unfortunately, the lake is a failure. One side is several z-levels lower then the other, and so the water is draining out the side and down a few z-levels flooding half the map.

I have a picture here to give a better idea of what I mean, if for some reason you would like a save I have one of just a few frames after arrival that I can upload to the dwarf fortress file depot.

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Re: Lake Failure
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2008, 08:40:00 pm »

That seems awesome.  Does the same thing work with volcanoes?
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Re: Lake Failure
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2008, 02:31:00 am »

Volcanoes are a single local tile.
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Alexander Seil

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Re: Lake Failure
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2008, 10:00:00 pm »

Could you post it? I really want to see that map.
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Re: Lake Failure
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2008, 02:22:00 am »

It is supposed to equalize the elevations of all lake squares during world generation, but I guess there's a bug with that routine.  I'd need a seed/location to fix this, as I haven't seen it before and don't know how to reproduce it.
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Re: Lake Failure
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2008, 03:07:00 am »

Created in DF v0.27.176.38c.
[WORLD_GEN]
   [TITLE:STANDARD]
   [SEED:3912516079]
   [DIM:257:257]

location is here.

I strongly suspect the problem has something to do with the major river that's connected to the lake (sort of) lowering the elevation.

I'm having trouble registering for the DFFD so I didn't upload a save, if you do need one I can try to register again or email it to you (23mb) but hopefully the seed and location will be enough.

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Re: Lake Failure
« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2008, 03:40:00 am »

If the soil types and so on are unmodded, the seed should be fine.

edit:  I've also got it reproducing on another lake, so it doesn't matter.  I guess this is a common problem now.

[ June 03, 2008: Message edited by: Toady One ]

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