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0004310Dwarf FortressWeatherpublic2011-03-23 09:542014-10-27 14:26
ReporterTeddy 
Assigned ToToady One 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
StatusresolvedResolutionno change required 
PlatformOSWindows XPOS Version
Product Version 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0004310: Rain start and stop announcements may only pertain to a small part of the map
DescriptionFrom the start of my now one year old castle, or at least since the early months, it has been raining constantly. I still recieve announcements about the weather clearing up and it starting to rain again, but this doesn't reflect any change in the observable weather. This has caused a small murky pool, whose edge was cut off by the volcano in my region, to flood the volcano crater, and by this time it has turned half of the volcano top into obsidian covered by a minor sea of 1/7 deep water.

Earlier, I shut down the game hard due to some stupidity of mine causing a cave in on top of my legendary miner, but in that run, the rain actually stopped.
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TagsIntentional/Expected?
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related to 0000195resolved Toady One Setting WEATHER:NO just keeps rain from stopping, not starting 
has duplicate 0000981resolved Footkerchief Weather changes go unannounced. 
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Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2011-03-23 09:54TeddyNew Issue
2011-03-23 10:44FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0000195
2011-03-23 10:44FootkerchiefNote Added: 0016496
2011-03-23 10:44FootkerchiefTag Attached: AWAITING UPDATE
2011-03-23 16:03TeddyNote Added: 0016503
2011-03-23 16:15FootkerchiefSummaryEternal rain - rain start and stop anouncements without any change in weather => Rain start and stop announcements may only pertain to a small part of the map
2011-03-23 16:16FootkerchiefTag Attached: Intentional/Expected?
2011-03-23 16:16FootkerchiefTag Detached: AWAITING UPDATE
2011-06-28 15:26DwarfuRelationship addedrelated to 0000981
2014-01-27 12:54FootkerchiefRelationship replacedhas duplicate 0000981
2014-10-27 14:26Toady OneNote Added: 0030758
2014-10-27 14:26Toady OneStatusnew => resolved
2014-10-27 14:26Toady OneResolutionopen => no change required
2014-10-27 14:26Toady OneAssigned To => Toady One
2015-01-11 07:41FootkerchiefRelationship addedhas duplicate 0008724
2016-10-03 18:03LociRelationship deletedhas duplicate 0008724

Notes
(0016496)
Footkerchief   
2011-03-23 10:44   
Does your site include multiple biomes? If so, the announcement is probably for a small corner of your map.
(0016503)
Teddy   
2011-03-23 16:03   
Yes it does. I guess that could be the answer. I actually I saw it being rainfree outside my fortress enterance, in what I now realize was another biome, but I only looked there for a short amount of time, and when I got to the pool on top of the volcano, I saw it raining again, so I dismissed it as me just getting it wrong.
(0030758)
Toady One   
2014-10-27 14:26   
Yeah, this is just multiple biomes -- it only uses the center column of the map to determine rain announcements, which mostly works, but can be weird if you have a map biome dipping down to the center and hardly anywhere else. I'm not really sure what a cleaner solution would be though, so I'm just marking this one off.