Talk:Planepacked

Please don't delete it

I removed Karl's code that said "del|Artifact are randomly created, so it's not useful"

I think we should let this one go without deleting it. This is too epic, and I'm usually not one of the people who care about that. Boatmurdered has a stub on here, so I say we should leave this one go until the day someone sees the creation of an even more epic artifact.

And in one sense it is useful. This is the standard by which all other artifacts shall be measured. --Rusty Mcloon 06:35, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

It is the space and time warping, dimension twisting, utterly warped standard. So, totally normal for dwarves. --Zchris13 18:24, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Seriously, this deserves it's own page. Hell, if it were up to me, I'd give it several pages. That's how epic it is. --Smartmo 15:28, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Seriously? Is a wiki for personal glory, or information? What "information" is this? That glitches can happen? I'm not saying delete it, but don't pretend it somehow "deserves" a spot any more than any game log does. Like boatmurdered. If every "epic" fortress and artifact and episode and story and dwarf and battle had their own page... yeah. It's unique, and somehow it demonstrates... something, I guess - but other than that it is kinda pointless.--Albedo 12:56, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

'personal glory'? Whose person? The article is about Planepacked anyway, not its originator despite your jadedness about the matter, and really, it could have happened to anyone.

I really don't understand the attitude that fun has no place in the wiki. Obviously we don't have or want every "epic" artifact and it is not your kvetching that keeps them out, have a little sense of proportion. This is not an academic paper! This is a wiki about a video game for which we're sharing secrets and stories and enjoying the hell out of, and the game highlights you complain about are a good portion of what makes the wiki actually worth reading and the game worth playing to anyone who hasn't yet. --Corona688 13:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Honestly, this is a web site about Dwarf Fortress. Whether it's useful or not, Boatmurdered does deserve it's own page. And so does this. It would be ridiculous and pointless to try and keep a wiki of Dwarf Fortress free of humor, and pages like this. -Smartmo 16:29, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

How helpful a wiki is to people learning about the game depends very heavily on the ratio between useful game-related information and "other stuff". As long as the "other stuff" doesn't have a very heavy presence then it isn't causing much harm. So while it's not that important to delete articles like this, it is important to make sure that useful articles only link to other useful articles. You can help by checking the what links here link and making sure that only similar articles link to things like this. This way we can forgive off-topic articles without turning into something like ED or uncyclopedia. VengefulDonut 16:51, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm in favor of preserving this article, under the usual "D for Dwarf" rules, as VD mentioned. It definitely does not belong outside of the "D for Dwarf" wikispace due to it being 100% bug related.

On the other topic of Boatmurdered.. I don't think that deserves it's own article beyond the small stub that it has now. It's only humor lies in how much fail went into it's planning and management. There's more than enough of that in any average user's game. Bm is only so well known because it was one of the first forts to be shared publicly with narration, in a large community. If you give it more than a brief mention, then there are atleast hundreds of other forts that would demand a page. -Edward 23:40, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Such as Nist Akath, and the resident Captain Ironblood.--Zchris13 00:11, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Relax. I never said BM didn't deserve it's own page. I said it was basically a game log, not particularly (or intentionally) informative beyond that. But BM is both a landmark and The textbook example of several DF truths. This is a relatively unknown example of the game going sideways - one User's install failed to activate a line of code that said "End" - film at 11. Keep it or not, just don't overdo it if it stays.--Albedo 00:29, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

I was reading up on my dwarfistory lately. Nist Akath, boatmurdered, all great stuff. Brilliant. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Zombie Troll is pretty good too. --Zchris13 00:54, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

P.S. Boatmurdered is actually what got me into DF anywho.

Description

http://bartabox.banquise.net/df/planepacked.txt

Anyone else amused by the name? I mean, it's just plain packed with every concevable ornamentation. Except cheese. - to avoid the pain, I shall attempt to remain nameless. – unsigned comment by Teres Draconis

The link is broken now. -SomeGuyWithoutAnAccountOnTheWiki

Good Lord

It has a picture of itself on it. The damn thing's fractal. Lymojo 05:02, 2 May 2009 (UTC) Lymojo

It doesn't have just one picture of itself on it... it has itself carved on it 73 times! Almost all of these carving are in limestone, too. It could very well be fractal. --Smartmo 15:24, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Actually, only 21 are limestone. --Eagle0600 10:35, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

If anyone's interested ...

• 416 engravings
• 224 mentions of Limestone
• 197 mentions of Magnetite
• 172 mentions of Dwarf
• 73 self references
• 65 mentions of Limonite
• 41 mentions of Toads
• 41 mentions of Ascension
• 40 mentions of Foundation
• 30 mentions of Goblin
• 16 mentions of Gyspum
• 15 mentions of Killing
• 12 mentions of Abduction
• 8 mentions of Kobold
• 8 mentions of Donkey
• 7 mentions of Mountains
• 6 mentions of Malachite
• 6 mentions of barrels
• 4 mentions of Steel
• 4 mentions of a Thin Cross, 1 of a Tall Cross
• 4 mentions of Dimpledflags, the Iron Hatch Cover
• 3 mentions of a Shining Sun, 1 of a Blazing Sun
• 3 mentions of Cave Lobster
• 2 mentions of Native Platinum
• 2 mentions of Oaks
• 2 mentions of Human
• 1 mention of Orthoclase
• 1 mention of Native Gold
• 1 mention of Pig Iron
• 1 mention of Dog Leather
• 1 mention of Brown Jasper

And probably some I missed. Mraedis 11:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Show/Hide Description

I'd like to motion for adding show/hide buttons for the lengthy description involved with this piece... --MoQ 06:39, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Seconded --Waladil 23:38, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

It's at the bottom of the article. I'm not against adding a show/hide button, but I don't think it's at all important. --Eagle0600 10:37, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Explanation research migrated from main page

My megaconstruction project is on hold at the moment as I have a dwarf displaying this infinite collection tendency (went moody during a siege and claimed the outdoor craftshop); he's a stonecrafter and the first item collected was rock salt (the most plentiful stone I have), although he collected--without my doing anything--iron ore (limonite, tetrahedrite) and has added it to the workshop, I also mined out some platinum, which he has also collected. Current estimated value of the artifact in progress is over 800,000☼ as it is primarily constructed of iron ores (value 24☼) and he has collected over 250 stones. Currently 7077☼ worth of raw materials have been collected. --173.49.21.216

Addendum, as I accidentally crashed DF. I had a weaponsmith go fey on reload and forced him to collect every metal bar I could produce with my meager coal mines. I did not end up counting how many items went into the creation of the Iron Spear Olinsacat "Tongsdot," but it was worth a whopping 20,653,200☼ (mostly iron bars, plenty of gold, a few platinum, copper, and silver). I have also not excessively trawled its description, but it does contain references to itself, references to an artifact from a prior fort in the same location, squares, at least one berzerk dwarf, at least one dwarf falling off my megaconstruction, and various other depictions. (Oh yeah, I have a login...) --Draco18s 00:51, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

There needs to be a page full of epic artifacts like this spear and planepacked. this way anyone with an epic artifact can post it.

Some extra research

I did a little research, and found some notes on how to better use the exploit. Please consider this a spoiler if you don't want to itch all over wanting to do it. Teehee.
Since you need to have the outdoors forbidden to dwarves, I can confirm that if you hit the forbid button during the pause when you get the message about it ("Urist McMoody has become possessed!") then the exploit will occur. I got a guy right now gathering up all my wood. I'd rather he take my obsidian because I have more of it, but whatever.
That brings me to my next point: if you have him gathering stuff, and unforbid the outdoors so that he can cross an item off, then it cannot be restarted. Therefore, it only seems to work on the first item in the list, for good or ill.
Therefore, my obsidian goes to waste for now, but I do get a 44-wood and 1-bone arti. --Waladil 23:46, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Later note: It's worth 55,200, and it has 5 references to itself in its 44 wooden decorations. Must... resist... offering... to... elves...
Actually, I might be in the running for best weight/value ratio, since it only weighs 1. Can anyone beat a 55,200:1 ratio? --Waladil 23:57, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

(Waladil is now holding a full discussion by himself. You may try to converse with him, but chances are slim that he'll notice you. Allow him to continue blathering, it's normal.) Yeah? well, now I'm working on a super-obsidian super...thing... I've got over 3k obsidian sitting around and a self-sufficient fortress. I'm in it for the long haul! --Waladil 17:17, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

What happened?

31.0*

Is it still possible to make a Planepacked now? Has the gltich been fixed? Can I ask this in a more dramatic fashion? I think if you set burrows to exclude the workshop, it'd work, but I dunno. --97.121.181.207 00:48, 9 June 2010 (UTC) (forgot siggy when put in at first)

Yep. Burrowing works. Just set the burrow to include NOT the workshop (whatever it is) and then add the moody dwarf. --97.121.181.207 00:48, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Question on Planepacked Bug

Is it possible to get this bug on a Fell Mood? --72.37.171.156 17:04, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

It would appear that it does not, unfortunately. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=82053.0

Epiphany

I was sitting around the other day, and suddenly, I had this amazing realization. Planepacked is the Dwarf Fortress equivalent of Homestuck. It's long, absurdly complicated, incorporates tons of seemingly random elements, seems almost completely incomprehensible much of the time, has numerous references to itself, and was created by someone under the influence of a Strange Mood, most likely due to a strange malfunction in the way reality works. Plus, describing it in it's entirety basically requires reading the whole thing. ~StormCat

Broken link to the complete description

As of 2019-08-06, http://bartabox.banquise.net/df/planepacked.txt is a dead link. Does anybody have a copy of it? 130.211.0.48 19:23, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

There are several pages of description text in the article (possibly hidden by a collapsed form). Is that description insufficient?--Loci (talk) 00:41, 7 August 2019 (UTC)