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[Dorf3000]

.. is OCD 

I just abandoned a several year old fort in which I was digging a circular bowl for the top of the volcano to fill with magma, because I noticed (too late) that I'd clipped an edge with a rectangular dig designation and dug out 3 tiles too many.  This made the circle have a 'bump' in that level, and I couldn't fill it with walls because the tiles behind were already revealed and there's no way I know to hide solid tiles in DF.  So basically I wasted a couple weeks' worth of playing because I couldn't stand to have a slightly bent magma bowl.

Is this normal?

[AngleWyrm]

Yes, it's normal for DF players. Just keep taking your medication and you should be good.

[squeakyReaper]

Make sure to turn on auto-save and backup if you tend to do stuff like this.  Do the time warp when necessary.

[Dorf3000]

Make sure to turn on auto-save and backup if you tend to do stuff like this.  Do the time warp when necessary.

I am a huge abuser of save scumming and killing the DF process when something like this happens.  Unfortunately I only noticed the hole after I'd saved a couple of times, and I didn't back up my saves this time after I noticed the previous DF version took up 500MB of space. 


So what medication should I be taking?  I think I'll have to line them all up in rows of 7, and throw away the cracked/scratched pills.  And Don't. Bump. The. Table!!!!

[Aner-Dyfan]

I have considered channelling out the entire map and then constructing my fortress out of walls and floors for this very reason. Everything must be tidy!

[Fishbulb]

You know what drives me nuts? When you're running pipes or narrow corridors — the one-tile-wide type — and you accidentally put two of them not right next to each other, and not three tiles apart, but two tiles apart. When that happens, and you smooth the walls, you get this sort of grid thing happening, where the adjacent smoothed walls look like they're connected.

That's usually enough to inspire me to savescum. I hate that.

[pixl97]

You can always use dfhack to drop some water on the leak or spawn an obsidian block.

[chewie]

I just had a awesome idea for things like this:

Mod in a black ore with wich you can build black walls that look like unrevealed tiles. Would that be possible?

[AngleWyrm]

So what medication should I be taking?  I think I'll have to line them all up in rows of 7, and throw away the cracked/scratched pills.  And Don't. Bump. The. Table!!!!

The green pills and the very small pills work the best. So ideally, very small green pills.

[inEQUALITY]

I just had a awesome idea for things like this:

Mod in a black ore with wich you can build black walls that look like unrevealed tiles. Would that be possible?

It should be able to be done. I'll make a quick mod for that if you guys want, since your OCD-ness compels it. I'll add that to my main mod as well too; thanks for the idea chewie.

[slothen]

you abandoned a fort because you revealed 3 extra tiles.  You have problems.

[Musashi]

you abandoned a fort because you revealed 3 extra tiles.  You have problems.

Depends of the location of the 3 extra tiles. If it's extremely close to HFS or even surprise magma... 

[Zaerosz]

I abandoned my second most successful fort ever because of one too many tiles dug out. Of course, this 'one too many' tile was the one between me and the circus, it was winter and I had forgotten to turn on seasonal autosave.

[Reese]

See, I would just mine out an extra tile's worth of ground around that entire level and sheath that level in constructed walls to it remains regular.

[Frogwarrior]

you abandoned a fort because you revealed 3 extra tiles.  You have problems.

Depends of the location of the 3 extra tiles. If it's extremely close to HFS or even surprise magma... 

With you, Joey, it's never a surprise!