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Over here, I posted a question about build markers. There was a bug involved, so it belonged in the "bugs" topic, but it occurred to me that I might as well ask the architectural question here. So:

(a) What the heck does "Build marker Remove item" do? It seems to make builders remove bombs and fuses, albeit buggily; does it do anything else?
(b) What I wanted to do was have a floor image gradually revealed. But builders can't build "floor image" tiles, nor can they remove things that would obscure those tiles (other than bombs, which only semi-successfully obscure them). Any thoughts on a good way to do this?

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It can remove anything in that square (I think).

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Someone Else wrote:
It can remove anything in that square (I think).

Anything? Potions, scrolls, monsters, obstacles...? (I think I tested all of these and none of them were removed--contrary to my expectations on at least the first two.)

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I believe it removes all markers on the square.

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I personally have no idea what "Remove Item" does...at first I thought it was something else. You know how there are some rooms in TCB where the builders only build on the perimeter/edge of some rectangle? What we did was do "Build Marker Trapdoor" on the entire area, and then "Build Marker None" on that area except for the outer perimeter. That's a lot simpler than 4 "Build Marker Trapdoor" commands for the entire perimeter. Anyway, I thought that "Remove Item" was "None" but apparently not.

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That's Remove Build Marker, which is different from Build Marker Remove.

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Hmmm, I don't even see "Remove Build Marker" in the command list (perhaps I am being blind). I see Build Marker, which then has None at the top and Remove Item at the bottom. And there's "Wait for no build marker at..." which is useful, but still.

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I was wrong. All it removes is bombs and fuses.

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I for one am wondering who snuck drugs into the food of the guy in charge of coding builders.
But seriously, these seem to be buggy and might merit a bit of a revamp before some architect starts using them.

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Jatopian wrote:
I for one am wondering who snuck drugs into the food of the guy in charge of coding builders.
But seriously, these seem to be buggy and might merit a bit of a revamp before some architect starts using them.

That would be me to blame for almost everything in the code these days. I'll work on improving this.

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mrimer wrote:

Jatopian wrote:
I for one am wondering who snuck drugs into the food of the guy in charge of coding builders.
But seriously, these seem to be buggy and might merit a bit of a revamp before some architect starts using them.

That would be me to blame for almost everything in the code these days. I'll work on improving this.

Wait, hold on--work on improving the build marker code, or improving the drugs? :-)

Again, while there seems to be a bug involved, mostly I'm just trying to figure out what the intended behavior is. (And: should I put in a feature request for builders to build image floors and image pits?)