0007698: Excessive numbers of underground critters

Notes
(0027805) thvaz (reporter) 2014-07-28 13:44	I meant "0.40.05" instead of "0.45"

(0027808) Khym Chanur (reporter) 2014-07-28 14:16	Related to or a duplicate of bug 0007673. And it might be intentional. Not only are there three cavern layers to the one surface layer, but everywhere underground is suitable for underground creatures, whereas civilized creatures don't live in the middle of mountain ranges or out in the ocean.

(0027812) Footkerchief (manager) 2014-07-28 14:57	This one has more useful numbers, so I'm marking the other one as a duplicate. The numbers don't seem that outlandish, unless they're all spawning on the local map at once. Can it be shown to impact performance?

(0027814) hyndis (reporter) 2014-07-28 15:05	This is likely intentional. Previously it was easy enough to kill the entire population of wild animals in the world through deploying enough hunters. This seems a bit absurd. Yes, any troll that wanders on to the premises of your fortress is probably doomed. But this doesn't mean every troll is doomed. Trolls will continue to reproduce "off map" and will wander on to your map. I believe this was done to ensure that your hunters would be viable even after many years of hunting. Animals will reproduce elsewhere and will migrate on to the map to keep your hunters busy. Now if you had some 299,000 trolls all show up on your fortress at once, then yes, you've got a problem. But if they're showing up in small numbers at a time I don't think there will be any issue.

(0027816) thvaz (reporter) 2014-07-28 15:11	Animals, yes, but inteligent critters? Same world as above: above ground: 26 grizzly bears underground: 57485 blind cave bears Maybe there isn't a performance hit, but it is very strange.

(0027817) Dwarfu (manager) 2014-07-28 15:16 edited on: 2014-07-28 15:41	The release notes for 40.05 specifically address this: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/index.html#2014-07-27 [^] "Made underground populations properly respect layer size (the numbers can get very high, but blame the giant under-ocean caves in part)"

(0027821) Talvieno (reporter) 2014-07-28 15:39 edited on: 2014-07-28 15:43	If we say there are 26 bears aboveground, and assume that's a decent population... And then we assume that this is an archipelago world with 3/4 of the map covered in water, and we assume that there are the standard three cavern layers, then that's 4 * 3 * 26, which comes out at 312. 57485 cave bears is just so far from that that it's ridiculous to assume it's normal, I would think. It would make sense if there were about 400 bears above ground, though.

(0027822) Dwarfu (manager) 2014-07-28 15:43	Tildes create note links.

(0033752) thvaz (reporter) 2015-12-10 17:08	The issue remains in 0.42.11. While we have usually only a dozen or so aboveground critters of a given species, in the underground and on the seas species amount to the hundred of thousands. While it may (or may not) have an impact on performance, these numbers damage the coherence of the world. This could be solved by making some critters endemic to a region instead to all over all the biomes in the world (like in the real world), to create different biomes underground and in the seas (coastal, island, deep sea). I know this is suggestion territory, but it would be nice to know if in fact there isn't some kind of bug in these numbers. Some medium world created in 0.42.02: Underground: 718965 gorlaks 360850 trolls 114636 giant cave spiders 518397 giant moles 156604 helmet snakes 238342 naked mole dogs 747272 elk birds 193329 giant bats Sea: 217782 gigantic squids 2589186 giant horseshoe crabs 2024925 giant sponges Aboveground: 7 leech men 15 pythons 14 bushmasters

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2014-07-28 13:31	thvaz	New Issue
2014-07-28 13:44	thvaz	Note Added: 0027805
2014-07-28 14:16	Khym Chanur	Note Added: 0027808
2014-07-28 14:55	Footkerchief	Relationship added	has duplicate 0007673
2014-07-28 14:57	Footkerchief	Note Added: 0027812
2014-07-28 15:05	hyndis	Note Added: 0027814
2014-07-28 15:11	thvaz	Note Added: 0027816
2014-07-28 15:16	Dwarfu	Note Added: 0027817
2014-07-28 15:16	Dwarfu	Note Edited: 0027817	View Revisions
2014-07-28 15:39	Talvieno	Note Added: 0027821
2014-07-28 15:39	Talvieno	Note Edited: 0027821	View Revisions
2014-07-28 15:40	Talvieno	Note Edited: 0027821	View Revisions
2014-07-28 15:41	Dwarfu	Note Edited: 0027817	View Revisions
2014-07-28 15:43	Dwarfu	Note Added: 0027822
2014-07-28 15:43	Dwarfu	Note Edited: 0027821	View Revisions
2014-07-28 15:46	Dwarfu	Relationship added	related to 0007526
2015-12-10 17:08	thvaz	Note Added: 0033752
2018-04-16 18:22	Huntthetroll	Issue Monitored: Huntthetroll