Let's Play Dwarf Fortress: Syndrome Conundrum
- Thread starter Internet Kraken
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Well I'd like to be dorf'd. I'd like my dwarf to go by the nickname "Warthog". Also, I'm legitemitly of Goden now. As are all DF players, im sure.
Due to the incursion of Rofa and the potential goblin threat, I can't just station the military next to the animal stockpile. To big a risk of them having to move to go do something else.Double A said:
Plus I'm sick of that place being littered with animal corpses because of idiot haulers. There's still a troglodyte skeleton down there from years ago. Dwarves don't seem to mind walking over corpses.
You know that you can get them to specifically "dump" corpses in the "garbage"? At which point you can take them to the atom-smasher or just reclaim them if you need the bones?Internet Kraken said:
Of course, it's just that the haulers who should be doing that have extrordinarily poor priorities. Despite being marked for dumping the second they died, most of the vulture corpses in the dining hall are still there.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Solution: asign all dwarves to clear corpses for a few days... worked for me after simultainous Goblin sieges, a forgoten beast atack and some idiot vultures...Internet Kraken said:
however its probably a good idea for you to keep a few dwarves doing butchering while the rest haul the damn things up there.
Psh. Forgotten beasts are not the devils they're said to be. I once had a forgotten one come out of the abyss, some kind of poisonous giant bug thingamajig, and took it down with the measily 4-dwarf military, two of which were wrestlers. None were legendary and this happened about the end of the second spring. Had one casualty.
I don't know if bugs are squishable no matter what the size, but I was quite surprised.
I don't know if bugs are squishable no matter what the size, but I was quite surprised.
As I'll explain in the next update, Forgotten Beasts can range from completley harmless to death incarnate. You know how my last for ended? The blood of a forgotten beast I killed years ago suddenly started spreading a disease. A disease that caused dwarves to instantly collapse into bloody lumps of gore. And I couldn't do a damn thing about it since the blood was already spread everywhere.SamuelT said:
That only happens in certain biomes. It's to hot for water to freeze in Reveredtour, even during winter.Inglonias said:
Forgotten beasts are highly variable. Some of them are made of water and dissolve when tapped, others are giant normal animals that are only a minor threat to military dudes, and some are made of steel and bounce swords off their face for fun.SamuelT said:
Also, a number of them can release some sort of Syndrome in a gas or dust cloud. Those also come in a variety of types, from incredibly minimal to nerve gas to The Rot, which is the forum term for any syndrome that causes necrosis, is easily tracked around, and takes a while to manifest. The last one can end a fort even more thoroughly than the nerve gas varieties.
No, as stated above infections aren't the same as syndromes. To be honest as much as I like the syndrome system it has some glaring flaws, and the way syndromes spread is one of them. Syndromes are pretty much impossible to destroy if they spread by something like, say, blood. Since dwarves who step in blood create a copy of it on themselves, the syndrome is spread indefinitely. Even a full water purge of the entire fort doesn't help, since splatter doesn't necessarily dissipate in water. The only way to completley eliminate a syndrome spread this way is a magma purge, as magma incinerates all the splatters.SamuelT said: