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Planepacked

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Artist's rendition of Planepacked

Planepacked is a legendary limestone statue, now known as the most epic artifact ever created by dwarvenkind. The statue contains what would appear to be the entire history of the world in which it was created. It also includes 73 images of itself, leading one to believe that either the designs engraved upon it are minutely fractal, or that where Planepacked stands the universe folds. It also most likely contains several pictures of toads, and squares, but strangely, no cheese.

Planepacked was worth an amazing 3,105,600☼, an extremely high amount in relation to its rather mundane materials.

The artifact remained a complete enigma for months, until another player unwittingly created Broiledprinces, another mega-artifact. The original bug that was the source of these artifacts was later discovered, and the glitch was repeated by several other players until the bug was fixed.

The description[edit]

Click to show the very long description of Planepacked:

Self-reference count[edit]

Total is 73:

  • Magnetite: 40
  • Limestone: 21
  • Limonite: 8
  • Gypsum: 3
  • Cave Lobster Shell: 1

Materials[edit]

See the external links for a complete list of materials and item detail.

Creation[edit]

According to its owner, creation took over a year to gather all of the materials, and then the standard amount of time to make the item. Why the dwarf didn't go insane in the middle of collecting items was initially unknown; subsequent research has revealed that moody dwarves only go insane when they spend too much time waiting inside their workshop for an item to become available.

Explanation[edit]

A forum thread and corresponding Bug:1416 narrowed down the cause of Planepacked: a moody dwarf who claims an outdoor workshop when dwarves are not allowed outside will continue gathering materials for his artifact without ever crossing any off his "list." He will only gather materials from inside locations, and will do so until no more of that item remain. If dwarves are allowed outside he will complete his current item and move on to the next. It is unclear if forbidding the outdoors causes him to collect more of the initial item, or more of the new item. Due to the plentiful nature of stone and the frequency of moods involving stone items, it's no surprise that Planepacked was made out of stone. In versions 0.31 and later, where the "stay indoors" order was removed, the same can be accomplished instead by using burrow restrictions - in this case, the workshop is claimed outside the burrow, and only items inside the burrow will be collected.

It is considered an exploit to allow the moody dwarf to continue to gather materials using this manner, thus forcing the artifact to have more items than normally possible.

Way to reproduce[edit]

Bug 1416, the bug responsible, was fixed in DF 0.40.24, so this is no longer reproducible in current versions. However, Planepacked-like items have been created since the bug has been fixed, even in the Premium version 50.11. More !!SCIENCE!! is needed to determine the trigger.

It may be caused by guild hall zones overlapping workshops.

Previous versions[edit]

Create a burrow that has materials inside it (a dwarf will only take one kind though; mason will take stones, blacksmith will take bars, etc.) but not the factory Urist McMoody has claimed, and assign him to that burrow. He'll keep bringing materials to the workshop and marking them as *TSK*, and as long as he's getting a stream of materials coming in, he won't become insane. Unassign him from the burrow to continue production of the artifact.

Alternatively, if a dwarf's workshop is in a hospital zone while in a strange mood and requires cloth, he will gather cloth until either the hospital is deactivated or his workshop is set to no longer be part of the hospital.

External links[edit]

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