Growth Of Queer Symbols, Bug in old and weary game world

[Ana]

Heya!

My characters is living in the URW already for several game winters (spring of year 19) thus number of zoomed maps, gathered items, lost arrows etc. is huge. Not to mention I've also tampered with flora files, adding some new growth and sometimes discarding some later.

I've encountered also several bugs.

- Not sure if it is bug or not, but wounded companions and animals never heal. I have a wounded cow, few wounded dogs and know of few companions left lying at the bring of village for ever. I rather don't think of wounded animals in unsuccessful hunts ...

- All plant life in some zoomed maps (random?) is harvestable regardless time. On other it grows normally. Also some of my deleted experiments keep growing here and there.

- Some items are vanishing or to be exact appear as invisible "you see an ", I don't really mind when the game world is old as mine and I usually discard those.
- Related: smoking meat turned into an invisible J + (symbol) when it should have been done. I picked it up, it was invisible in the inventory, so I wasn't able to discard. Dropping everything I was able to see in my inventory, I've noticed I am still carrying 1% weight.

- Related and reason to write: in same zoomed map of my settled cave in the deep north this an J (symbol) (see screenshot if I manage to upload) is starting to grow, I think it used to be berries.

I have newest version of URW 3.14 upgraded from previous urw 3.13p4 (copied character folder and my flora + cooking files), system is Vista 64.

[aislinn]

I suspect the deleting of flora items when they already exist on a map would tend to cause some problems, at least if you've already encountered those items in a local area before deleting them. not sure if they exist or not BEFORE you zoom in (comments please, comrads).

as for wounded npc's they will remain wounded until npcs get upgraded sometime in the hazy future - and then I have the feeling that you may have to start a new character for it to work right, but can't be sure.

good luck and good summer!

[Ana]

Thank you for your answer. It could be expected that tampering with flora files might bring bugs, but I did it prior and haven't yet noticed such. If I do tamper, I delete/modify my flora files in winter and wait till spring for new growth. I am 90% certain that this one was from basics flora files, not mine, and the name looks exactly same as for smoking meat turning into smoked invisible bug item.

This is the only way I manage to make the picture available, I don't have webpage or on-line storage to put there and give proscribed link.

http://depositfiles.com/files/xzjz4ggui

All best.

[Ana]

I played some more since saturday bugs, traveling around, growth looks elsewhere normal if maybe a little time messed here and there, but queer symbols items or an (invisible) items appear also in shops. New traps and shelters don't show on map anymore ... and as a side note since forever, everywhere I go 2-3 Njerpez camp sprout up almost at each step. As I traveled a lot in past game years, map is overloaded with all those pink war settlements and my folder is over 1 giga big.

I think the game just can't handle this much of old information. What I think I need now is the old way of packing favorite cow with favorite items and walk on onto the new, fresh, uncluttered map.

Any idea how to do that in new version? I've looked at wiki tampering with files, but I am not sure if it is safe to delete that one giga zoommaps.dat (+ zoommap.dat + zoomindex.dat?) only and I still don't know what to do to clear world file of all sprouted settlements.

Thanks for any idea about how to clean map without cleaning my character history or starting new game. I'd like to try a decade or more with one iron babe.