[Bug] Strange Mood Dwarf stuck in place, massive fps drop.

[creepy-streaker]

So i had a huge sudden fps drop form 50-60 down to 10 yesterday and didnt know what the heck was going on. Then just now i got a huge jump in fps from 10 back to around my normal fps. I noticed that the fps jump coincided with a couple notifications and one of them was a dwarf who was in a strange mood but was just standing in the same spot not on a workstation forever became melancholic i.e. they gonna diee.

So seems like an issue* with a dwarf having a strange mood caused the massive fps drop.

[malthenielsen]

it an old bug. It happens when anybody tries to path to a place it can't reach.

The problem must be that one if the things he needs for the artefact is on the map but out of his reach.

[Boomshanka]

The dwarf standing there in the strange mood, well i bet you never had the workstation built he needed. Check there skills, sometimes the workstation they need is linked to that, ie. he has bowyer skill- you have no bowyer workstation built. he wants to make a bow artifact but cant do it. sometimes its not linked to his skill, so just make sure when you get a mood, check what stations you forgot to build. no idea about the fps issue though mate.

[creepy-streaker]

So turns out im a dummy and forgot that when you link a lever to whatever it automatically toggles it to active or whatever so i had like 5 people trapped in my magma forgin' areaafter linking the doors to a lever....

[jeetrix]

had the same kind of fps drop when a fey mood started on a dwarf stuck in a tree and some other took the ladder. had to build a stairs under him and cut the tree to solve the path-issue.

[creepy-streaker]

I feel like they should have some sort of limiter on pathing searches per dwarf or whatever so that a single dwarf cant spam the ♥♥♥♥ out of requests for a prolonged period of time, so that it significantly tanks performance.

[jeetrix]

Originally posted by creepy-streaker:

I feel like they should have some sort of limiter on pathing searches per dwarf or whatever so that a single dwarf cant spam the ♥♥♥♥ out of requests for a prolonged period of time, so that it significantly tanks performance.

true; as it is not supposed to happen the occurrence is probably subject to oversight.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by creepy-streaker:

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So seems like an big with a dwarf having a strange mood caused the massive fps drop.

While it was a different thing that bugged out, that Dorf was still standing there and likely melancholic due to having passed the point where his possession needed an item you didn't have in order to craft the Artifact.

It's possible he was naturally predisposed to that and it kicked off in the middle of crafting, too. But, they do sometimes go catatonic for awhile once they've passed the point and can't craft that item. He'll eventually go mad/etc. Check the Workstation menu and if he's no longer asking for items, he's a goner.. If he is, you're lucky and should rush to provide what's needed before he goes nuts. :)