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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0000895Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Jobs, Huntingpublic2010-04-09 14:532014-08-14 15:33
Reporterkaefermelder 
Assigned ToToady One 
PrioritylowSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusresolvedResolutionfixed 
PlatformPCOSWin XPOS VersionSP3
Product Version0.31.01 
Target VersionFixed in Version0.40.09 
Summary0000895: Items disappear (become invisible) after getting pushed by flowing water, burning in magma, or encased in ice
DescriptionItems are still there and can be tracked via stocks menu, dumping them from there works too, makes them reappear. Probably caused by me digging channels next to pool to get water level down and make ramps-->Items moved with flow? Corpse and all was visible at first, now only quiver, bolts, 1 sock are visible. Zooming in from stocks works too but no display on the tile.
Steps To Reproducewell, have a hunter dodge in a pool from an attacker - pretty hard to reproduce
Additional Information
Tagsflow, hunting, owned item, water
Relationships
has duplicate 0003765resolved Footkerchief Rushing floodwaters in charnel cavern make bodies & parts disappear, cause weird dwarf idling. 
has duplicate 0004697resolved Footkerchief Miasma without a source 
has duplicate 0004551resolved Dwarfu Body at bottom of pond dissapears when pond is drained 
has duplicate 0004751resolved Footkerchief Building and then removing floors seems to be generating dumped stones 
has duplicate 0004774resolved Logical2u Water flowing over a stack of armor makes most of the armor disappear 
has duplicate 0002132resolved Dwarfu Flowing water destroys stone if more than one is present in its path 
has duplicate 0001487resolved Dwarfu Icing of the river makes objects within the water disappear 
has duplicate 0005614resolved Logical2u Corpses/creatures in water disappear when water freezes 
has duplicate 0005893resolved Footkerchief Magma occasionally fails to destroy utterly flammable items, see description and save for list 
related to 0002210resolved Footkerchief water leaves no mud 
related to 0002884resolved Toady One cancels store owned item: item inaccessible [every 5 seconds] 
related to 0004600resolved Toady One Items frozen in ice are unrecoverable; building on previously iced square crashes game. 
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Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2010-04-09 14:53kaefermelderNew Issue
2010-04-09 15:01FootkerchiefNote Added: 0002433
2010-04-09 15:02FootkerchiefSummaryhunter dodged into murky pool, drowned, corpse and some equipment invisible, but not all. Possibly after "water movement" => Hunter's corpse/equipment invisible after drowning in pool, probably after getting pushed by flowing water
2010-04-09 15:04kaefermelderTag Attached: old bug?
2010-04-09 15:05kaefermelderNote Added: 0002435
2010-04-09 15:17kaefermelderTag Attached: hunting
2010-04-27 22:03VastinNote Added: 0005471
2010-05-06 18:40FootkerchiefNote Added: 0006328
2010-05-06 18:40FootkerchiefTag Detached: old bug?
2010-06-04 18:39FootkerchiefSummaryHunter's corpse/equipment invisible after drowning in pool, probably after getting pushed by flowing water => Items disappear (become invisible) after getting pushed by flowing water
2010-06-04 18:41FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0002160
2010-06-04 21:39FootkerchiefRelationship deletedrelated to 0002160
2010-10-21 06:27QuietustNote Added: 0013442
2010-10-21 06:29QuietustNote Edited: 0013442bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0013442#r5209
2010-12-02 07:57FootkerchiefRelationship addedhas duplicate 0003765
2010-12-28 09:34FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0002210
2011-03-27 15:49DwarfuNote Added: 0016688
2011-03-27 15:50DwarfuSummaryItems disappear (become invisible) after getting pushed by flowing water => Items disappear (become invisible) after getting pushed by flowing water, burning in magma, or encased in ice
2011-03-27 17:38DwarfuRelationship addedrelated to 0002884
2011-03-27 17:39DwarfuNote Added: 0016691
2011-03-29 10:51SocietalEclipseNote Added: 0016766
2011-04-17 20:20InsanityPreludeNote Added: 0017420
2011-05-23 13:53foopNote Added: 0017833
2011-06-12 23:39DwarfuRelationship addedrelated to 0004697
2011-06-28 14:10DwarfuRelationship addedparent of 0004600
2011-06-28 14:45DwarfuRelationship addedhas duplicate 0004551
2011-07-13 10:26DwarfuRelationship addedparent of 0004751
2011-07-13 10:33DwarfuSticky IssueNo => Yes
2011-07-22 14:16NarosTag Attached: water
2011-07-22 14:16NarosTag Attached: flow
2011-07-22 15:34Logical2uRelationship addedhas duplicate 0004774
2011-07-24 06:10ImBocaireNote Added: 0018303
2011-07-27 07:13DwarfuRelationship addedhas duplicate 0002132
2011-07-27 07:13DwarfuIssue Monitored: malroth
2011-07-31 05:19DwarfuRelationship addedhas duplicate 0001487
2011-12-20 11:58flamootNote Added: 0019211
2012-02-10 07:33DwarfuNote Added: 0019474
2012-02-10 10:44JasonMelIssue Monitored: JasonMel
2012-02-10 10:49JasonMelNote Added: 0019476
2012-02-12 22:22MezmeerNote Added: 0019487
2012-02-12 22:23MezmeerTag Attached: owned item
2012-02-19 15:23FootkerchiefNote Added: 0020174
2012-02-19 15:24FootkerchiefRelationship replacedhas duplicate 0004697
2012-03-11 07:13Logical2uRelationship addedhas duplicate 0005614
2012-05-16 07:23FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0005893
2012-07-17 03:08LeonidasNote Added: 0023251
2013-04-10 11:16epeliNote Added: 0023929
2014-01-26 10:22FootkerchiefRelationship replacedhas duplicate 0005893
2014-02-03 06:56aztectornadoNote Added: 0024491
2014-02-15 20:47VatticNote Added: 0024518
2014-02-19 06:53FootkerchiefAssigned To => Footkerchief
2014-02-19 06:53FootkerchiefStatusnew => acknowledged
2014-07-15 18:12TalvienoNote Added: 0026564
2014-07-17 04:00LiensNote Added: 0026730
2014-07-17 05:24MultipartiteNote Added: 0026735
2014-07-27 10:36KanddakIssue Monitored: Kanddak
2014-08-13 13:29FootkerchiefStatusacknowledged => confirmed
2014-08-14 12:27Toady OneRelationship replacedrelated to 0004751
2014-08-14 12:27Toady OneRelationship replacedrelated to 0004600
2014-08-14 12:28Toady OneStatusconfirmed => resolved
2014-08-14 12:28Toady OneFixed in Version => Next Version
2014-08-14 12:28Toady OneResolutionopen => fixed
2014-08-14 12:28Toady OneAssigned ToFootkerchief => Toady One
2014-08-14 12:39FootkerchiefSticky IssueYes => No
2014-08-14 15:33KanddakIssue End Monitor: Kanddak
2014-12-30 20:32FootkerchiefRelationship replacedhas duplicate 0004751
2014-12-30 20:32FootkerchiefIssue Monitored: Farmerbob

Notes
(0002433)
Footkerchief   
2010-04-09 15:01   
Yeah, there was an old bug where items that got pushed around by flowing water would become invisible. Guess it's still around.
(0002435)
kaefermelder   
2010-04-09 15:05   
k - added a tag "old bug?". pretty minor anyway
(0005471)
Vastin   
2010-04-27 22:03   
Confirmed. I had a soldier fall into a pool and was trying to make it shallow enough to retrieve his corpse and effects. This activity resulted in some flow and his corpse and several items disappeared.

The items still show up in stock, and if I zoom to them it selects an apparently empty square in the pool where they presumably are.
(0006328)
Footkerchief   
2010-05-06 18:40   
Here's the specific old bug:

# 000525 □ [dwarf mode][flows] items that were pushed around by water didn't show up with look command
(0013442)
Quietust   
2010-10-21 06:27   
(edited on: 2010-10-21 06:29)
I just had this happen with magma - a Goblin siege managed to slaughter a Human caravan while standing inside my magma trap so I turned it on and let them have it; as a result, I now have an invisible glob of melted burning donkey cheese that won't disappear from my stocks screen.
(0016688)
Dwarfu   
2011-03-27 15:49   
This also happens to anything that gets encased in ice - you can't 'k' over the items, though the stocks screen still lists them and you can zoom to them.
(0016691)
Dwarfu   
2011-03-27 17:39   
See note at 0002884:0011249 for a sock that was lost in magma and is generating spam messages for claiming attempts.
(0016766)
SocietalEclipse   
2011-03-29 10:51   
This happens constantly for me with my magma goblin dumping chamber.

1. Fill chamber with magma
2. Drop in 20+ armed/armored goblins to ensure enough iron items left over. Testing with just a few goblins may or may not reproduce bug.
3. Empty chamber into larger cooling chamber via a door switch. The stack of iron helms and such will scatter into the second chamber with the magma flow.
4. Wait for 1/7 magma to cool & disappear.
5/Result. Seemingly random selection of iron items that are invisible (graphically) but if you unForbid them via stocks screen dwarves will come to drag them away. 'K' over invisible objects *before* dwarf arrives will only show visible items if both visible/invisible occupy the same spot. They reappear (graphically) the moment a dwarf picks them up.
(0017420)
InsanityPrelude   
2011-04-17 20:20   
Still occurs as of 31.25.
(0017833)
foop   
2011-05-23 13:53   
This is happening in my goblinite collection chamber where items are washed off the narrow path of doom by water from a large cistern above.

I've put a save on DFFD (bit big, I'm afraid, it's a mature fort): http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4427 [^]
(0018303)
ImBocaire   
2011-07-24 06:10   
I posted a bug marked as a duplicate. I'm sure it's the same issue, but I'd like to note that in my particular case, the items disappeared from the stocks menu as well.
(0019211)
flamoot   
2011-12-20 11:58   
Yeah I was trying to pump water away from drowning victims so their corpses could be retrieved, and they disappeared!!
(0019474)
Dwarfu   
2012-02-10 07:33   
JasonMel's save from 0001581: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5459 [^]

It appears the body and stones, though not hidden have been displaced because of a cave-in and being in water.

See his notes at 0001581:0019462 and 0001581:0019466 and mine at 0001581:0019468.
(0019476)
JasonMel   
2012-02-10 10:49   
Since it turns out that the stones may be relevant too, I should mention that the 1x2 channel the corpse is in didn't have any stones in it at all before the cave-in. They were very probably from the stone stockpile to the west that was "destroyed" by the cave-in.
(0019487)
Mezmeer   
2012-02-12 22:22   
Happened to me, thankfully this has a workaround. I had about 13 dwarves claiming items from my "migrant corpse maker" which was just a walled in area which I flooded when I had the new migrants in there. When it drained, it must have activated this bug. >__>
(0020174)
Footkerchief   
2012-02-19 15:23   
hyp3r4ctive posted this save at 0004697: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4509 [^]
(0023251)
Leonidas   
2012-07-17 03:08   
This bug is easy to duplicate in the object testing arena. Just have some creatures fight to generate objects, then create some cubes of water nearby. The bug appears consistently in width-one corridors, less consistently in open areas.
(0023929)
epeli   
2013-04-10 11:16   
Still happens in 0.34.11.

I have a fort with various bugged invisible items created by magma/lava and a flash-freezing river.

Bug 0006305 (door permanently stuck open with no visible reason) might also be related, I couldn't find any other possibly related bugs/causes for it.
(0024491)
aztectornado   
2014-02-03 06:56   
One of my forts had a human caravan take a detour into my moat as it was filling, causing the wagon to "die" and drop everything everywhere, 98% of which was invisible once I found out about the incident. It also caused a large drop in FPS due to job cancellation spam from what I can only assume was something that somehow got left on the upward ramp at the edge of the moat, and was thereby accessible, yet inaccessible due to invisibility.

I had to abandon the fort and reclaim it because of this... Apparently it was a pretty big deal though since my engraver made no less than 5 images of the wagon being destroyed.
(0024518)
Vattic   
2014-02-15 20:47   
When items get frozen in ice you can dig them back out, but not melt them back out. At least that's how it worked with a freeze trap I made.
(0026564)
Talvieno   
2014-07-15 18:12   
Can confirm that this still exists in 40.03.
(0026730)
Liens   
2014-07-17 04:00   
@Mezmeer What is the workaround?
(0026735)
Multipartite   
2014-07-17 05:24   
@Liens The workaround mentioned is probably the 'can be tracked via stocks menu, dumping them from there works too, makes them reappear' mentioned in the issue description.