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[Blooddrive]

Looks like some kinda pathing bug hit my game hard. It started with ore and stone not being moved from some areas, and has culminated with my dwarves either starving and hunting for vermin.

Also got a lot of message spam involving not being able to give food because no food was available.

If you would like a save game from right after the message spam hit, I have it available.

Other wise this was my best game by far, I decided to let the demons out and after all was said and done 41 dwarves managed to survive! There all hurt and still starving though....

[Zaratustra]

Did a tree grow in the middle of a path, obstructing it?

[Blooddrive]

No nothing like that. The same path to the dining room and storage room was only 1 square wide. I did open it all up once the problem hit but it did nothing to alleviate the problem.
Some dwarves were eating, The rest though just didnt think there was any food at all.

I susupect part of the problem may lie in the fact that I two giant circles in my mining areas. i was also mining out the edges of the rivers and chasm to see where they might intereced in my base. That added a whole lot more pathing to be worked out, and in the case of the loops, may have borked my ore movement in a few places. Thats just speculation though.

[Toady One]

I suspect it's related to all the issues that have been mentioned so far.  When I work those out, we can see if it clears up.  Not sure when that's going to be.

[Frogman]

Could it be that they're all seeds? My dwarves don't want to eat seeds.

[Blooddrive]

If I had included everything else, seeds, pig tails, etc, it would have been well over 1400 total.

On a lighter note, I started anew and did several things

My main corridor is 5 wide, all the way through the map

All major traffic areas are directly on the main shaft, and have multiple entries.

I have not loops any where in the system.

Im up to 177 dwarves now and there all just peachy.

So it may very well be what I suspected earlier.

[Doalyn]

How do you manage 177 dwarves in 2 days??

[Blooddrive]

Its not easy, it involves a lack of sleep  

Im up to 196 now

[Toady One]

Is that no sleep at all?  I'm always curious about the longest stretches of uninterrupted play, or important appointments that are missed and so on.  We should collect them somewhere.  It's like one of those Guiness records they don't record because it encourages harm.

[Blooddrive]

Toady, your game is so addicitive I stayed up for 24 hours, which, is nearly impossible for me otherwise due to sleep apnea problems. Ohh and I skipped work that day..... The last time I played a game non stop like this was alpha centauri.

That being said, once I get the king and queen. Im stopping untill you get some bloat in.    

[ September 07, 2006: Message edited by: Blooddrive ]