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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0004505 | Dwarf Fortress | Animal Populations | public | 2011-04-12 00:41 | 2014-07-27 18:25 |
| Reporter | Khym Chanur | Assigned To | Toady One | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | x86 (AMD Athlon 7550 Dual-Core) | OS | Mandriva One | OS Version | 2010 (2.6.33.7) |
| Product Version | 0.31.25 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.40.05 | ||||
| Summary | 0004505: Smaller than expected underground vermin populations | ||||
| Description | Underground vermin like cave lobsters, cave fish and purring maggots have much lower population numbers (as shown via "export map/gen info" from Legends mode) than surface vermin with similar POPULATION_NUMBER tags. This means that most underground lakes will have no fish or lobster in them, and there are only very few purring maggots to catch. | ||||
| Tags | 0.40.04, Fixed in 0.40.05? | ||||
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I did some tests, examining populations in memory both for subregions and feature layers during a paused worldgen, and while surface populations are mostly within the expected ranges (POPULATION_NUMBER range multiplied by the number of region tiles), feature populations were indeed vastly lower - a cavern covering 29 region tiles contained only 390 naked mole dogs and 351 elk birds compared to the 435-870 and 725-1450 I would have expected. As worldgen goes on, those numbers only seem to get smaller. |
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Still present in 0.40.04. As an example, purring maggots have the same POPULATION_NUMBER stats as large roaches. In a pocket world there were 25 times as many roaches as maggots, and in a medium world 5.3 times as many. *EDIT*: Also, the pocket world was 250 old, but the medium world was only 5 years old, so as noted in the previous comment, the disparity might grow the further worldgen goes on. |
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Something in 0.40.05 has made the problem go the opposite way, so that there seems to be too *many* underground vermin. A 250 year old pocket world had 5 times as many purring maggots as large roaches, while a 5 year old medium world had 14 times as many. Anyway, *THIS* bug has definitely been fixed. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2011-04-12 00:41 | Khym Chanur | New Issue | |
| 2012-07-12 06:30 | Quietust | Note Added: 0023215 | |
| 2014-07-24 17:15 | Khym Chanur | Note Added: 0027461 | |
| 2014-07-24 17:17 | lethosor | Tag Attached: 0.40.04 | |
| 2014-07-24 17:41 | Khym Chanur | Note Edited: 0027461 | |
| 2014-07-27 17:53 | Khym Chanur | Tag Attached: Fixed in 0.40.05? | |
| 2014-07-27 17:56 | Khym Chanur | Note Added: 0027737 | |
| 2014-07-27 18:25 | lethosor | Status | new => resolved |
| 2014-07-27 18:25 | lethosor | Fixed in Version | => 0.40.05 |
| 2014-07-27 18:25 | lethosor | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2014-07-27 18:25 | lethosor | Assigned To | => Toady One |
