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Author Topic: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?  (Read 1476 times)

Iced

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Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« on: November 20, 2010, 02:05:15 am »
So, in my most recent game and first on .16 (simply because that's what the lazy newb pack is up to) I get an embark where immediately I notice about 20% of the surface tiles are flashing like mad, I don't mean the "more than one thing is on this tile" sort of flash. More like an extreme ultraspeed flash.


Naturally I check what sort of block this thing is, turns out there are apparently hundreds of different types of blocks there, sand, rock, gems, you name it. Of course I decide that this stuff must be mined out, but it turns out when I start mining that at least the top layers are all completely made out of rock. it has no other name, it's just "Rock" The flashing seems to happen only on the top.

Going back into the embark selection thing, it turns out the 1st four or so layers of the entire world are made out of "Rock"


is there anyone here who can explain this or has had similar things happen? or am I on my own here?

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Max White

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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2010, 02:09:14 am »
Are you using a mod?
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2010, 02:15:19 am »
No, the game is unmodded, just the LNP.
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2010, 02:38:19 am »
Have you edited or even looked at the raws with a program that automatically creates backups?  Did you extract over a previous DF version?
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2010, 03:21:47 am »
This sounds like one of those things which results from incorrectly-modified raws.
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2010, 03:36:32 am »
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2010, 03:50:25 am »
Ah, I got it working. It must have been something to do with the raws or something because I re-extracted the original and everything was fine.

I don't know what though as I hadn't touched them.
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2010, 03:56:34 am »
Usually that happens when you have duplicate entries. I had a save where all marble was some strange unstable substance which boiled into mist when mined and cycled rapidly through all mineral types when loo(k)ed at.
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2010, 05:48:46 pm »
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2010, 12:48:53 pm »
This has happened before, most commonly because someone just extracted a newer DF over an older one.


Which you should never do btw
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2010, 01:24:50 pm »
wooops i do that all the time.....
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Re: Generic rock? flashing tiles?......WHAT?
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2010, 05:56:32 pm »
Congratulations, you found missingno.
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