Exploration off the edge of the world map in original Daggerfall
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 1:15 pm
Hi,
I posted this on reddit and someone suggested this would be a better place to get answers on this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Daggerfall/com ... orld_map/
I remembered recently that probably 15-20 years ago I managed to get out of the world map by leaving a heavy thing on the move key overnight until I got to the invisible wall at the bottom right, then moving slanted until I got through the wall. I remember seeing what looked to me like a building right before the game crashed.
I decided to try to repeat this last night and got results fairly easily. Here is the location on the map.
What follows are the pictures of what younger me thought was a building although now I am not sure. It does seem to have corners.
It goes out of view when you look down. Walking closer crashes with error 203.
Does anyone think this could actually be a building or just a graphical glitch? As far as I can see it may be infinitely tall. The corners seem strange if it were just a glitch.
Thought this was interesting and wanted to share it. I think I may have sent it to the Essential Site after it became inactive a long time ago. Which in hind sight was pretty pointless.
Would love to hear from anyone with more knowledge of how the daggerfall world works.
I can send the save files on if anyone is interested.
Thanks for all the work you are doing to keep Daggerfall alive.
Edit : after further investigation by using max view distance with a hex editor it does look like it is just a graphical glitch( see Reddit thread). Hopefully someone found this interesting anyway
I posted this on reddit and someone suggested this would be a better place to get answers on this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Daggerfall/com ... orld_map/
I remembered recently that probably 15-20 years ago I managed to get out of the world map by leaving a heavy thing on the move key overnight until I got to the invisible wall at the bottom right, then moving slanted until I got through the wall. I remember seeing what looked to me like a building right before the game crashed.
I decided to try to repeat this last night and got results fairly easily. Here is the location on the map.
What follows are the pictures of what younger me thought was a building although now I am not sure. It does seem to have corners.
It goes out of view when you look down. Walking closer crashes with error 203.
Does anyone think this could actually be a building or just a graphical glitch? As far as I can see it may be infinitely tall. The corners seem strange if it were just a glitch.
Thought this was interesting and wanted to share it. I think I may have sent it to the Essential Site after it became inactive a long time ago. Which in hind sight was pretty pointless.
Would love to hear from anyone with more knowledge of how the daggerfall world works.
I can send the save files on if anyone is interested.
Thanks for all the work you are doing to keep Daggerfall alive.
Edit : after further investigation by using max view distance with a hex editor it does look like it is just a graphical glitch( see Reddit thread). Hopefully someone found this interesting anyway