[Bug] 50.02 - Tombs

[uruzrune]

Confirmed bug:
1. Put down a coffin
2. Make a tomb from that coffin
3. Dwarf starts bringing remains of a dwarf to be buried
4. Remove the tomb zone
5. Crash about 20 frames later

[*Yuki*]

can confirm, got that too. Seems like the only necessary thing to get a crash is to remove a tomb zone from under an occupied coffin

[graalGGTV]

You should report that on their "bug report" section on discord, as is mentioned in the pinned thread in this forum

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by uruzrune:

Confirmed bug:
1. Put down a coffin
2. Make a tomb from that coffin
3. Dwarf starts bringing remains of a dwarf to be buried
4. Remove the tomb zone
5. Crash about 20 frames later

This happens with other Zones, too, when there's a zone-specific job in progress and the Zone is deleted.

For example, I assigned an Office to a dorf. They were on their way to do something in it, maybe to have a "Meeting" or some other thing that is Zone specific. I deleted it and... <crash>

The best I can figure is that when there's a zone-specific function or task/job involved and the zone is deleted, some of those things fling errors that don't get caught. It's got to be very Zone specific, though, and a hole in the code that doesn't catch it, where it can crash through. Placing something in a chest may or may not cause it, but drill down to something extremely zone-specific, like Burying, and that seems likely to fling it if the zone is deleted.

[Teemo]

Ok, I see it's a confirmed bug, but why would you ever take these steps?

[Nano]

Originally posted by Teemo:

Ok, I see it's a confirmed bug, but why would you ever take these steps?

Mostly because the tomb mechanics have changed from how it was in classic, and since it isn't documented properly we're trying to figure out how to build a graveyard without creating a million individual rooms. It seems like you now have to create proper catacombs in your fortress somewhere, if you want to avoid ghosts.

You used to be able to just throw a bunch of graves in a room and call it a graveyard.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Benguin:

Originally posted by Teemo:

Ok, I see it's a confirmed bug, but why would you ever take these steps?

Mostly because the tomb mechanics have changed from how it was in classic, and since it isn't documented properly we're trying to figure out how to build a graveyard without creating a million individual rooms. It seems like you now have to create proper catacombs in your fortress somewhere, if you want to avoid ghosts.

You used to be able to just throw a bunch of graves in a room and call it a graveyard.

I've noticed a few streamers who were obviously used to Classic mechanics being puzzled over this, too.