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Author Topic: The floor is lower than the floor, what the hey?  (Read 386 times)

Captain Mayday

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The floor is lower than the floor, what the hey?
« on: November 11, 2007, 10:06:00 pm »
Okay, this bug appears to work like this:

Say you have a bunch of constructed floor, yes?
....... <- These are tiles from a side view.

Now lets say, you have walls underneath those, also constructed.

.......
0 0 0 0

Now, lets say your dwarves remove the foors on top of those walls.
Suddenly this appears to be the case.
@.@.@.@
0 0 0 0

And they're like 'OH NO I CANNOT GET OUT! HOWEVER SHALL I SCALE WHAT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE MORE THAN A FEW INCHES OF ROCK?"

You know, despite being able to move from wall top to floor if they were already moving about.

Eventually they DID seem to move off the tiles when they were near death from thirst, like their parch throats had given them the amazing power to bend their knees. It appears to be a bug in the exact same manner that dwarves sometimes get trapped by statues. Exact same thing happens.

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Sean Mirrsen

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Re: The floor is lower than the floor, what the hey?
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2007, 12:34:00 am »
I don't think I've encountered that...  then again, I'm used to not reflooring over rewalls (as that blocks any consecutive rewalls - part of the weirdness of the floors system no doubt). Also, if thirst had them pass out and stand up, it might have solved the problem - my adventurer got stuck on some wet ramps, and could move off only after a lie down/stand up action.
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Re: The floor is lower than the floor, what the hey?
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2007, 10:28:00 am »
Aye, this has been encountered by a quite a few people now. If you use k to look at the tile, you'll see that the top of the wall where the floor was removed now reads 'open space'.

It's just something about putting the floor before the wall down. I'm sure Toady will move to correct it as soon as he is off break (unless there is so many problems that we have to pause the game and recruit him for a half second). On a related note, many people wish that the 'remove flooring' job can be done from adjacent tiles, due to the many troubles this action generates.

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