Let's Play Dwarf Fortress: Syndrome Conundrum

[Internet Kraken]

thats what happens when the breath attacks token is UNDIRECTED_DUST it pretty much means that they made a cave in, which there were right under.................................

Yeah, I know [UNDIRECTED_DUST] beasts are basically walking cave ins. I've fought them before, and while they can hurt themselves with the dust they usually do far more damage to your dwarves with it.

I've never had a forgotten beast just outright kill itself like this.

 

[General-Veok]

Undirected Dust. 'nough said.

/facepalm

 

[Engarde]

Self exploding forgotten beasts. What will they think of next?

 

[vallorn]

clearly Scamps and his pet The Toady One hath smiled upon thine fort.

 

[General-Veok]

I'm actually curious what Legends mode will report for the beast's death.

 

[repeating integers]

Yeah, it blew itself up. All that's left of it is a huge pile of rubble. I...I'm so confused. How did it blow itself up? Why did it blow itself up? What the hell is going on here?!?

I guess this works in our favor though. I'm just going to stop thinking about this and pretend it never happened.

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This update is short for two main reasons; as mentioned earlier I need to study, and the forgotten beast killing itself confused me so much I couldn't focus on the game.

Maybe it was Palestinian? And, erm, devoid of all senses?

 

[Aidinthel]

At least graphite can't spoil. I suggest making a throne out of it.

 

[(name here)]

thats what happens when the breath attacks token is UNDIRECTED_DUST it pretty much means that they made a cave in, which there were right under.................................

Yeah, I know [UNDIRECTED_DUST] beasts are basically walking cave ins. I've fought them before, and while they can hurt themselves with the dust they usually do far more damage to your dwarves with it.

I've never had a forgotten beast just outright kill itself like this.

It's made of graphite, which is what people use for pencil lead. It's not terribly sturdy and he might have blown himself over an edge.

 

[vallorn]

At least graphite can't spoil. I suggest making a throne out of it.

agreed... then your ruler could write on the paper of the world with thier decisions...

 

[Double A]

The selfsplosion was probably a combination of the dust tag and graphite being extremely brittle.

 

[Eric Blank]

Achmed? Was that you?

 

[vallorn]

with all the problems your having just remember that no insane Super-Dwarves are running about ON FIRE and in a homicidal rage...

and that you got lucky the FB didnt nuke itself inside your fort.

 

[MrShowerHead]

Well, that was random....

But hey, at least he didn't blew himself up in your fort. That would have sucked :/

 

[Manic Dementia]

Kraken, How do you reach this screen? The only ways i can view a dwarves wounds is to hover over them with K while the wounds tab is highlighted, examine them and press H to view their health screen, or go through the (Z) Stocks menu and scroll to health.

None of these, however, go into as much detail or tell me what a particular dwarf needs to get healthy again, like yours does.

 

[Internet Kraken]

examine them and press H to view their health screen

That's the screen pictured in the screenshot, So I'm not sure what the problem is for you. Do you have a chief medical dwarf appointed? I'm not sure if that actually matters, but it might have something to do with it.

 

[Aidinthel]

I'd imagine that the specifics would only appear after diagnosis.

 

[vallorn]

urgh i took a few weeks break from DF and it turns out ive forgotten most of those damn menus... SpoiltFurnace isnt doing too well... though i did manage to figure out how to make a moat and wall... Im not dead! (Yet)

 

[Manic Dementia]

examine them and press H to view their health screen

That's the screen pictured in the screenshot, So I'm not sure what the problem is for you. Do you have a chief medical dwarf appointed? I'm not sure if that actually matters, but it might have something to do with it.

I do have a chief medical dwarf, with a full team of medical staff, nurses etc. I'm running version 0.31.18, my population is 110, the economy hasn't set in and my current nobles are: mayor, captain of the guard, militia commander, manager, chief medical dwarf, broker, bookkeeper and many militia captains, if that information helps.

Here's a screenshot of what happens when i hover over a wounded dwarf using (k) and then pressing (w)

Same dwarf, only viewing his profile page

Finally, what happens if i navigate to the health screen (h) after examining (v)-(z)

The problem is, as you can see, it doesn't show anything it considers "minor", only showing if said dwarf has nerves severed, loss of function, or is infected. And IF it does display these things, it's never in detail.

I'm at a loss. I'm doing things exactly the same as you, but recieving completely different results. There are only 2 things i can think of, other than what has been mentioned, thaat might be causing this: 1) I'm using a tileset, Mayday's. I doubt it has any effect on the core game, but anything is possible i guess. 2) This fort is a save from a (slightly) earlier version. It wasn't from as far back as 40d, but it is fairly old. Version 0.31.13 at a guess.

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. :\

EDIT: Also, in response to the other posts, i'm pretty sure he has been diagnosed. When he came in he had a lot more injuries than that, which have been slowly patched up by my medical team by applying casts, dressing wounds etc. As far as i know, work can't be started on a wounded dwarf until he has been diagnosed, but if it can then maybe he hasn't been.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Alright, I know it's been a while since the last update. I wish I could say it was purely because of schoolwork, and it mostly is, but I also caved in and tried Minecraft and I think many of you know how addicting it is at first

But I'll try and put out something today.

EDIT:

The game hates me.

 

[vallorn]

Alright, I know it's been a while since the last update. I wish I could say it was purely because of schoolwork, and it mostly is, but I also caved in and tried Minecraft and I think many of you know how addicting it is at first

But I'll try and put out something today.

EDIT:

The game hates me.

yeah Minecraft has the same addictivness as DF... id say to try the EscapeCraft Beta server but due to lack of pluggins (to prevent thieves and griefers) we are running a test map.

s'all good.

oh and this ones Gaunt so it shouldnt be too hard... hope you dont have much wood though.