Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker - Issues

0006327: Game crashes on startup

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:30:42 -0700

Yesterday, DF worked fine.
Today, I attempt to open it, and it crashes in Terminal before even opening.

0006326: Pressing e (equipment) with selected non-squad member causes segfault

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:32:28 -0700

Hitting e with non-squad member causes crashing game.

0002493: Cannot melt metal chests

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:10 -0700

Designating metal chests for melting at a smelter will endlessly burn charcoal but not melt the item.

0006325: Reclaiming Crash/Freeze

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:28:05 -0700

Building a fort in an Evil Biome is fun and challenging, this one also had profane vapors! which make husks, and those produce a lot of Fun. After about 8 reclaim attempts, the dwarves survived long enough to build a working drawbridge to protect the fortress. After each reclaim, the number of items scattered and leather buildup was growing steadily. But upon the next reclaim attempt, the game was frozen. it would refuse to run and/or crash. Prior to this I only used the Mayday tileset as a mod.

I installed DFhack to clean up everything, delete the extra items/leather/junk.
while the game was no longer completely frozen, it still moved at such a slow pace that the game was essentially unplayable.

Attempting to have an adventurer travel into the fortress results in the game locking up or crashing.

0000114: Kill orders not cleared after completion

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:53:47 -0700

I ordered a squad to kill a troll, which they did, but then they just stood around the area keeping the "Kill Troll" order active. I'm assuming they should cancel it once the troll is dead.

0001677: Exotic pets do not breed

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:53:26 -0700

I bought a pair of tame warthogs from elves, male and female. They have been roaming free in the fort for years and there hasn't been a single piglet.

Likewise in an earlier fort (in .01) I bought giant leopards and tigers and such, and they did not reproduce either.

0006277: Frame rate cap can't be increased after decreasing it below 10 FPS (using in-game keystrokes)

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:01:25 -0700

After decreasing the frame rate cap below 10, it isn't possible to raise it again. This limits the frame rate to 9 FPS, with no way of changing it without restarting the game.

0003722: Falling damage blocked/deflected by armor results in malformed combat announcements

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:17:27 -0700

I had a military dwarf fight a buzzard, the dwarf jumped away from it's attack and fell down some stories, breaking his neck. Looked in the combat log, which said, among the standard "...taking the full force of the impact...", as well:
"it The Recruit in the body part, but the attack is deflected by The Recruit's (iron breastplate)!"

0006324: DF Generates "Marked x items for Trade Message"

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:18:41 -0700

First year of Fortress.
Dwarven Carvan in Autumn.

I did not trade much since I did not made much to trade. But I gave them some barrels.

After I finished trading, I get the message at the bottom of the screen "Marked 10 items for trade". I checked - 10 of my bituminous coal was so marked.
I unmarked those.

I now get the message Marked 1 item for trade every couple of minutes.

Help.

0006322: Being thrown off bridge results in improperly formatted "combat report"

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:45:33 -0700

I retracted a bridge with a dwarf standing on it.

I then got the following combat report:

"It The Farmer in the body part but the attack is deflected......"

Maybe the farmer fell or something like that........

0005964: Haulers carry (heavy) full bin to pickup single item (lighter)

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:33:48 -0700

I love the bin/barrel hauling, but it has some rough edges. This is a bug report with suggestions -- the bug (IMO) is that they carry around heavy containers to pick up light objects.

Dwarves often carry a full, heavy bin to pick up a single lighter item. This is most annoying when they do it with bins full of lead bars. It is also noticeable that they usually take a bin to pick up a single sock, or a barrel to pick up a single fish. Worst case, 10 dwarves pick up 10 not-quite full containers from the same stockpile to pick up 10 individual lighter items close to each other, instead of one dwarf carrying around a single bin.

Another annoying thing about this is when traders come, a bunch of bins/barrels which you want to take to the trade depot are being carried around picking up items.

Some suggestions come to mind:

1. Assign hauling jobs every Nth tick to let them be batched up more and optimize according to weight and space. Maybe only use a container when several items can be optimized into a hauling run. If this is already being done, increase N a little bit. :D Side benefit: dwarves can immediately use a new item for a few ticks, instead of waiting for it to be hauled.

2. Don't carry a heavier container to pick up a lighter object. Either use an empty/lighter container or no container at all.

3. Assign only empty bins to hauling jobs. When the dwarf arrives at the stockpile redistribute items to their appropriate containers. If this empties the bin use it again for hauling, if not empty then drop in stockpile. Yes, this will result in #bins used exceeding stockpile size, maybe drop it on a nearby tile causing clutter. ;)

0006323: Dwarves add bins to stockpiles but do not add items in bins

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:28:14 -0700

I have a coke stockpile set to accept only that with size 9 tiles.

It has 7 bins added to it by the dwarves. But they have not put the coke in the bins.

I think they only add stuff to bins when they take the bin with them.

There should be a "re-organise" option in a stockpile set to ON/OFF which makes dwarves shuffle the items to use fewer barrels.

It will also prevent this from happening.

0006317: Merge Units and Jobs Screen

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:18:20 -0700

Would it be possible to merge the (U)nits screen and the (J)obs screen. There is not much difference between the two screens.

This would reduce one screen.

You would need to:
1. Add a task description column to the units screen.
2. Then you just need to add a toggle button at the bottom to toggle between Jobs view and Units.

0006318: Add Wheelbarrow support (optionally) for Stone Trap Set up

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:17:17 -0700

As in when the stone is being hauled.

0006319: Implement Labour Toggle for Pen/Pasture Animal set to on or off

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:14:27 -0700

Like the other labours can be toggled

0006320: Parametrisation for Immigration

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:10:52 -0700

To be set at the start of the embark by user, and then changed once every season or when the dwarver carvan / liason comes:

1. Immigration flow: 1 to 5 (Multiplies current immigration values by 0.5 / 0.75 / 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 etc)

2. Immigration Tilt towards military / balanced / non-military:

0006321: Soldier Squad Immigration Option

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:09:56 -0700

This can be implemented as a part of Embark Scenarios:

Trained soldier squads (Breakup decided by user) sent by home dwarven civilisation.
Soldiers will arrive "with equipment".

This may make the game easy - but will be useful for new people for the first few fortresses, and will enable people to set up their fortress in tougher / more savage / more evil areas.

Option to set this off for hardcore players

0006316: Error on attempted startup, user error in knowledge base.

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:57:24 -0700

I recently got a new laptop, and I don't have any internet access with it yet, but of course the very first thing I want to do is to download DF and see how many dwarves its capable of running with until the FPS is lower than HFS - lower than the fort's productivity in a booze shortage - lower, I say, than the mood of a cat lover in a fully sustainable fortress.
I downloaded a version for windows onto my external HD using one of the macs in the lab (I made sure it was the windows version I DLed. It was mirror 2 of the SDL versions, if that matters). Also for reference, the mac version works just fine on the mac that I used as the go-between, but that's not this version anyway so irrelevant.
Anyway, so I brought the external over and copied and pasted the file onto the 'desktop' and opened it, and it had the cute little DF icon with it's 9MB game file waiting for me to click it to assume godhood over a motley set of dwarves. I click on it... and immediately get this error:
"One of the compressed files on disk has errors on it. Restore from backup if you are able."
So I came online to find a solution.
First, I tried re-downloading, in case that was indeed just a corrupt file, but that didn't seem to help.
Second, I came to the forums, and found that supposedly a similar problem can be fixed by running in a different compatibility mode. I tried each possible mode, including each possible mode with reduced color settings, to no avail. The only difference is that some modes specifically ask if I Im sure I would like to run the program, forcing me to click 'run' at which point it gives the error, while some modes just try to run it and give the error.
Third, it seems that file saves, when corrupted due to compression on 64bit systems, give this error. As such, I went into the init and disabled save compression, as is recommended when one starts to have save corruption issues, even though I have no save files (I have yet to successfully run the program on this computer, so surely couldn't generate any such files yet, but I figured it was worth a shot since my current computer knowledge, having been away for so long, is mediocre at best so I am low on options/things to try). This had no effect.

0006011: MAC: DF crashes on launch on MacOS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" Developer Preview

Tue, 14 May 2013 02:58:42 -0700

Trying to launch DF on the developer preview of 10.8 crashes immediately:

toucan:~ peterb$ /Games/Dwarf\ Fortress/df ; exit;
Loading bindings from data/init/interface.txt
/Games/Dwarf Fortress/df: line 12: 12286 Bus error: 10 ./dwarfort.exe

Process: dwarfort.exe [12286]
Path: /Users/USER/*/dwarfort.exe
Identifier: dwarfort.exe
Version: ???
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: sh [12268]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2012-06-11 20:08:40.118 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8 (12A239)
Report Version: 10

Interval Since Last Report: 49070 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 6
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 6
Anonymous UUID: 08CC6C5B-4015-4C32-BB74-10852337BB31

Crashed Thread: 1

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libgcc_s.1.dylib 0x01c40949 _Unwind_GetRegionStart + 9
1 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x01b4ae58 base_of_encoded_value(unsigned char, _Unwind_Context*) + 88

Thread 1 Crashed:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x957c70ee __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x919357cc _pthread_workq_return + 45
2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x91935599 _pthread_wqthread + 448
3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9191d44a start_wqthread + 30

0006015: Reclaiming multiple times gradually slows the game down, leather starts to appear

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:06:20 -0700

I have a fort I lost multiple times to whatever reasons. After about ten attempts at getting it to stand I noticed that the average FPS was 60 for some reason. After a couple more times it was finally 4, then 0, then the game was almost completely frozen. Every frame took seconds to process.

I replicated this 3 more times with a pristine site, and every time leather started to appear all over the landscape. My last attempt, which was done with an embarking party without any items at all, the leather count on the map still reached 2000 according to the stocks screen.

0006033: Areas once covered in magma seemingly not being cleared for pathfinding across

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:52:26 -0700

The problem itself is that some squares that have been full of magma seem to be retaining the impassable flag that stops dwarfs pathing through magma.

This was noticed by me as I was attempting to build a staircase down into a drained volcano, and later in the same save, when attempting to build a wall in a tunnel previously filled 7/7 with magma. Reflooding the area seems to have no effect, neither does building constructions around it.

0006315: Place Item in Tomb - Item Inaccessible

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:45:24 -0700

Job cancellation spam relating to placing items in tomb.

0005793: Place Item in Tomb - Item Inaccessible

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:42:28 -0700

Job cancellation spam relating to finding a right foot that is nowhere to be found. I believe the stream washed it off the map. I am using the Masterwork mod, but I'm not sure if that's interfering with it at all.

0006313: Removing any floor bordering a stockpile causes stockpile to empty.

Wed, 08 May 2013 05:09:17 -0700

I was trying to build a structure over the gap where some rivers meet, out of green glass. Eventually, I used the platform I had produced to hold a food stockpile. I needed to rearrange the floor bordering the stockpile into some upward stairs, but didn't want to lose the green glass, so started building under it (was going to be doing so at some point anyway), so may as well use it to catch the falling bars). As soon as the floor tile bordering the stockpile was removed, however, everything in the pile disappeared. I at first thought 'oh shoot, I thought I had made sure there could be no cave-ins there'... but it wasn't a cave-in. The floor was still there. It was merely everything in the stockpile that was gone (and all tasks associated with the items then failed because the 'item was misplaced'). I wondered what was going on, but my dwarves quickly put a few more items in the stockpile, while I checked far below in the river in case they had somehow fallen through the blocks (which it did not)... and then I got to see it: just as the next two blocks were removed, each time everything in the pile was destroyed - disappeared forever. Finally, I did an experiment. I waited, and designated another tile adjacent to the stockpile for removal (albeit at a 45* angle from a corner of the stockpile). It worked: the stockpile emptied, and all tasks associated with all the items that disappeared failed. It's a nice reproducible bug.

0006147: Not found: data/art/curses_640x300.png

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:19:31 -0700

My friend is trying to run a fresh copy of 34.11. However, it always prompts for fullscreen and then gives the error "Not found: data/art/curses_640x300.png".

The file exists and is in the correct directory.