0008075: Baby/vermin explosion - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

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0008075

Dwarf Fortress

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public

2014-08-18 18:16

2015-01-02 12:41

Reporter

m-logik

Assigned To

Footkerchief

Priority

normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

random

Status

confirmed

Resolution

open

Platform

OS

Windows 7

OS Version

Product Version

0.40.08

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0008075: Baby/vermin explosion

Description

During the second winter of my fort, I suddenly had 10 dwarves (out of 67) give birth in rapid succession. Immediately after my view stopped recentering on the births, I noticed that my entire 5x5 outdoor refuse pile had been filled with creepy crawler remains. For several minutes I had not a single idle dwarf as they carried a constant stream of creepy crawler remains from my agricultural area. I had to turn on outdoor vermin remains collection so that they would move them into my qsp. Up to this point, my dwarves had not hauled a single vermin corpse from inside my fort, and I definitely would have known, as I am using an outdoor qsp for refuse, and had not changed the standing order for outside vermin collection up to this point. Now, however, there are 72 and growing creepy crawler corpses in my refuse pile, and they are still spawning on my food stockpiles. Because of the timing, I can't help but suspect a connection between the sudden surge in births and the massive influx of creepy crawlers.

Steps To Reproduce

I've never seen this before, I don't know.

Additional Information

These saves use the Phoebus graphics pack. The only mods were to add a display case building, a healing rate to nails and cartilage, the process plants to bag seed fix, and removing the grazer tag from elk birds. I haven't updated to 40.09 yet, but I didn't see anything in the changelog that appears even remotely related to this.

I fortuitously backed up my save moments before this started.
Here is before: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=9436 [^]
Here is after: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=9437 [^]

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Unreasonable amount of vermin remains in caverns cause severe FPS lag

Notes
(0029282) Footkerchief (manager) 2014-08-18 20:57	Does it reproduce if you move your save to 0.40.09?

(0029286) Talvieno (reporter) 2014-08-18 22:11 edited on: 2014-08-18 22:12	May be related to or a duplicate of 0007902. I think they focus on different aspects of the same bug. The baby thing isn't really unusual, though - it just means you got a large number of married couples as migrants the year before.

(0029339) m-logik (reporter) 2014-08-19 20:34	I've migrated to .40.09 and tested the save. It does reproduce. The dwarven baby count is 9, not 10 as I originally stated. @Talvieno, though I have seen surges in births many times, I've never seen them clustered so closely together. These births all happened within 1.5-2 minutes of unpaused gameplay. Normally I would have chalked it up to RNG, but due the correlation with the creepy crawler explosion it seemed possibly relevant. Of note, as I've continued to play the fort, the creepy crawlers stopped spawning on my food at such a high rate. It took almost two seasons, but their appearance rate seems normal now. There are still a lot of live ones on my refuse and in the caverns, where there are no cats to kill them, but I can't say for certain whether it's an unexpectedly large number.

(0031641) Killzemallgod (reporter) 2015-01-02 12:41	I'm getting an insane amount of vermin on the surface with cave crawlers. Also getting 10k-20k Bees per hive. This is on 40.23. The Severity of this should be raised.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2014-08-18 18:16	m-logik	New Issue
2014-08-18 20:57	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0029282
2014-08-18 20:57	Footkerchief	Assigned To	=> Footkerchief
2014-08-18 20:57	Footkerchief	Status	new => needs feedback
2014-08-18 22:11	Talvieno	Note Added: 0029286
2014-08-18 22:12	Talvieno	Note Edited: 0029286	View Revisions
2014-08-19 20:34	m-logik	Note Added: 0029339
2014-08-19 20:34	m-logik	Status	needs feedback => assigned
2014-08-20 06:13	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0007902
2014-11-14 05:28	ANormalUsername	Note Added: 0030976
2014-11-14 06:49	Footkerchief	Status	assigned => confirmed
2014-11-14 07:16	ANormalUsername	Note Deleted: 0030976
2015-01-02 12:41	Killzemallgod	Note Added: 0031641

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