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OrangeDorf

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Apocalypse...?
« on: October 20, 2011, 01:12:18 am »
Hey.  I haven't posted on the forums before but this seemed like a pretty freaky event so I thought I'd put it up for discussion.  I considered putting this in the stories thing but it seems like a bug that would work better here...or not a bug.  Discussion either way.

So I started a new adventurer file today, and it seems normal at first.  I get that little intro message thing, but then when I press enter, it says "You have discovered an expansive underground cavern."
I assumed it was some weird bug, maybe a cave was nearby and the cavern was already revealed somehow.  So I take one step, and see this.



Giant wall of dust extending 10 blocks into the air.  Like some kind of earthquake happened.  So I duck in that house, and wait for a while (at 2 fps) then go back out and the dust is fading away.  Some kinda clay plateau was to the north that looked like a cave entrance, but no cave was anywhere near it.  Next I decided to fast travel to look around.  I see on either side of the village I started in are rivers that go towards the ocean and turn into double tildes, I guess a tributary, so I go investigate one.  Note this was a good distance away.  When I come down from fast travel, I'm on some clay platform raised out of the ground.  It's filled with holes, and waaay down under the holes is a mess of crisscrossing rivers and pockets of water.  There appears to be no way off the plateau.  I take one step, and suddenly the screen is engulfed in the dust again.  It says I take the full force of the impact and get engulfed in boiling magma several times, then I smash against an obstacle and my brain is torn and I die.  I should have thought to take a picture of this.

So yeah, worldwide pyroclastic flow.  I tried to start a fort on that world (I didn't save on the adventurer's file) and DF crashed.  I made a peasant and couldn't find any more ash, then got killed by bogeymen, then made a demigod to look for the same spot and it crashed again.
I couldn't find anything online like this.  So, any ideas as to what this was?  Bug, volcanic eruption mechanic that was secretly added, asteroid impact?
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Angel Of Death

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Re: Apocalypse...?
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2011, 02:05:17 am »
It's the rare wave of death bug.
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Re: Apocalypse...?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2011, 08:57:45 am »
It's the rapture! Camping wasn't lying!
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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 06:13:03 pm »
You've inherited a doomed world my friend. Pity it's unembarkable, could've had some nice RP stuff going on in the right spots.
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BullDog

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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2011, 10:17:36 pm »
Can you upload the save?

I'd love trying to explore a doomed world.  :D
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Eric Blank

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Re: Apocalypse...?
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2011, 11:31:58 pm »
It is a bug. Specifically it's a bug with worldgen/how the game interprets and sets up the terrain. The clouds of death and such are 'cave-n dust,' from cave-ins of course (as the game sees any collapsing architecture.) Cave-in dust knocks around any creatures caught inside it, and very often kills them, as you experienced. Not that the fall couldn't kill you anyway...

It's a rare bug, but it's a pretty common topic of discussion on the adventure mode board. Never had it happen to me, personally.
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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2011, 02:50:07 pm »
I think I got a tsunami once in an older version..I think what happened is the sea level in the ocean was one higher than  in the river, so when the bubble contacted the boundary...
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freeformschooler

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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2011, 12:22:13 pm »
Oh hey it's this bug again.

I love this bug. I loved it less when my computer was slow and old.
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OrangeDorf

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« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2011, 07:32:41 pm »
Uploaded:
http://www.box.net/shared/od2680lr53alfhthlbdj
I couldn't refind the dust though, good luck however.
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Re: Apocalypse...?
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2011, 08:16:16 pm »
Quote from: drilltooth on October 24, 2011, 02:50:07 pm
I think I got a tsunami once in an older version..I think what happened is the sea level in the ocean was one higher than  in the river, so when the bubble contacted the boundary...

Oh that just sounds swell. You could embark on a literal island.
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