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I have a lake that isn't a lake

Yonez

Chieftain
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Is this right? (See attachment) I've got a city to the northeast of this spot of water, but I can't farm the area next to it. Having a look at the tiles they just say "coast", when I'm sure it should have "freshwater lake" underneath too. I went into the worldbuilder but couldn't see any option to change it. I can change it to ice and then back to a coast, but it's still not freshwater. Is this supposed to happen?
 

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Hmmm. I seem to recall that bodies of water over a certain size are not considered lakes. This may fit the criteria, and be considered an "Inland sea." I'm not totally sure, though.

I'm assuming that the area you mean is the tile where the worker is standing? If so, can he farm the tile 1 South? If he can, there's an error somewhere.
 
Aha! I knew I had read it somewhere! Thanks. :)
 
Ah! I really should have searched. I thought you could only get inland seas on specific maps. Don't tell anyone, but I think I might put some ice fields on plots I'm not going to use.

Oh and incidentally, the area 1N of the stone had a tribal village. It was hostile, but I guess they all jumped into the water and drowned leaving my warrior unscathed. :)
 
Inland seas come up fairly frequently on natural-coast Pangaea as well as Big&Small. They can be quite fun, especially if you have to vie for control of a canal area.
 
If you feel like it, there's nothing stopping you from changing this (number of tiles a lake can't be bigger than) in the XML. If you search or "lake" in the global defines XML I'm sure you'll find the relevant variable.
 
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