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[Citizen of Erl]

In my current hold, I have taken to maintaining vast tracks of Nile-Style farms, just letting the river flood and leave me a bounty of fresh mud and future towercaps. This has worked very well for me, as I emphasize food production greatly, until recently.

For the last year and a half the river has not flooded. The last time it did flood, it only seemed to go about a third of the mountain's length, as it stopped at the very edge of my farmable zone. Since then, it's been two summers since my last cave flood. My hold is a fairly old one, if reclaiming counts, so I am uncertain if floods are supposed to stop so long into a hold's life, or what.

Thus far, I've survived fairly well thanks to a lot of cooking and slaughtering many mnay puppies, but things are gonna be bleak if I can't get my floods back. =[

A save will be happily given if you wish, of course.

Edit: This is with the newest version. I'm not sure if the flooding stop coincides with switching over.

[ September 14, 2006: Message edited by: Citizen of Erl ]

[Toady One]

Does it announce them?  Or has it even stopped announcing them?

[GrimmSweeper]

I've had the same thing happen, but I figured it was a natural progression of the Fortress. After several years (5 or 6 in my case), you should have a decent system set up that doesn't need nature's whim to complete the circle of farming.

If it's anything like what I encountered, it just stops announcing them entirely.

[Citizen of Erl]

They are no longer announced at all.

[Toady One]

Nah, this is a bug.  Nature shouldn't just turn off...  it becomes less important, but it should always be there to take the occasional fisherdwarf to the depths.

[bbb]

mind you..sometimes it announces river is overflowing.. and nothing happens. not the same problem is it? (it did still flood later on in the year)

[Citizen of Erl]

quote: mind you..sometimes it announces river is overflowing.. and nothing happens. not the same problem is it? (it did still flood later on in the year)

Not in my case, it doesn't. There's no announcment, and no flood. I've gone for three game years without one now. Probably have to abandon and reclaim soon, perhaps that will fix it?

[Toady One]

That might fix it but possibly not.  There aren't very many ways for the cave river flooding to stop...  it's hard to see how it would happen without the game forgetting where your river is entirely.

[Abyssal Squid]

I recently had a fortress where the cave river stopped flooding in the second year, and abandoning and reclaiming it allowed the river to flood again.  This was after an adventurer had flooded the world, though.