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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001344 | Dwarf Fortress | World Generation -- Parameters | public | 2010-04-19 16:05 | 2014-08-22 08:14 |
| Reporter | ilmoran | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | low | Severity | major | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | confirmed | Resolution | open | ||
| OS | Windows Vista 64 Bit | OS Version | Business SP 1 | ||
| Product Version | 0.31.03 | ||||
| Summary | 0001344: Setting a maximum lower than a minimum causes DF to hang/freeze on world gen | ||||
| Description | If a "maximum" parameter (i.e. Maximum Savagery) is set lower than the minimum for the same value (i.e. Minimum Savagery), program hangs when attempting to generate a world. Was unable to abort out of world gen. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Choose to create a new world with parameters. Set Minimum Savagery to 10 Set Maximum Savagery to 9 Generate world <System will hang, nothing shows on screen, not even a rapidly increasing rejected world count> Attempt to abort world gen. | ||||
| Additional Information | I would suggest that either attempting to set the minimum above the maximum, or the maximum below the minimum, should warn the user before letting them out of the parameter screen, or automatically set them to the same value. Should not be able to get to the point of attempting world generation with invalid min/max values like this. | ||||
| Tags | worldgen | ||||
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Going through worldgen bugs, I found this and tested in 40.09. The problem is still present as described in the description. Worldgen stops in the "preparing elevation" step and can not be aborted (you have to kill DF to stop it). I also tried this with other parameters like volcanism and drainage; the result is the same. Although no one with a sane mind would enter a lower maximum then minimum, this bug seems like a quick fix. Just check the parameters before worldgen and display an error. |
