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Veylon

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Zombies Evacuation (spoilers)
« on: February 19, 2012, 03:52:14 am »

I recently embarked on the side of the mountain and dug down to the third cavern area, where there was a Curious Structure jampacked with the zombiefied versions of various underground half-man creatures. Immediately after I got the message of having discovered the thing, they promptly mobbed and tore apart some Plump Helmetmen before gradually wandering off the top of the map. There were nearly a hundred; now there are five. The place is a ghost town. Where are they going? Why? Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Incidentally, there was also an issue where an underground lake was flooding an adjacent area that wasn't supposed to be a lake bed, but I fixed that with Dwarven Engineering and casualties.
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Re: Zombies Evacuation (spoilers)
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2012, 03:58:39 am »

Zombies are smart. They wouldn't leave if there wasn't a reason. I'd say Armok is about to nuke your fortress... Hope you built safe houses.

Either that, or your zombies are migrating south for the winter. That's where they make their nests and lay their eggs. Don't you worry, they'll be back.


Yeah, no, really, I have no idea. Maybe it's bugged? I know some creatures are set to leave the map after a while.
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Re: Zombies Evacuation (spoilers)
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2012, 04:18:34 am »

i would guess that they left your field of vision, possibly after more living stuff


or -pig tail socks-
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Re: Zombies Evacuation (spoilers)
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2012, 04:32:02 am »

Check if you only have one way in/out to the carverns.
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Re: Zombies Evacuation (spoilers)
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2012, 11:20:38 am »

FREEEDOOOOOMMMM

One must inquire what they were doing there in the first place.

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Re: Zombies Evacuation (spoilers)
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2012, 10:23:32 pm »

i would guess that they left your field of vision, possibly after more living stuff
My vision extends right up to the edge of the map. And I'm pretty sure they didn't just get rehidden; I can still see the few remaining guard shambling about.
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Re: Zombies Evacuation (spoilers)
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2012, 10:32:10 pm »

I recently embarked on the side of the mountain and dug down to the third cavern area, where there was a Curious Structure jampacked with the zombiefied versions of various underground half-man creatures. Immediately after I got the message of having discovered the thing, they promptly mobbed and tore apart some Plump Helmetmen before gradually wandering off the top of the map. There were nearly a hundred; now there are five. The place is a ghost town. Where are they going? Why? Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Incidentally, there was also an issue where an underground lake was flooding an adjacent area that wasn't supposed to be a lake bed, but I fixed that with Dwarven Engineering and casualties.
Curious Structure? You have a slade structure in your caverns? You lucky son of a dorf
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Re: Zombies Evacuation (spoilers)
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2012, 11:28:10 pm »

That happened with my slade structure in the last version. A huge tower full of zombie snakemen (they show up on your unit screen) that promptly left. Kinda disappointing, but made for the easy retrieval of the candy sword at the bottom.