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Icefire2314

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How to knock unconscious
« on: May 24, 2012, 08:05:56 pm »

My miner has a broken leg from a cave in, and can't move. 'ability to stand lost'. Nobody brings him to the hospital for a crutch and diagnosis, because he is not unconscious if i am correct. So is there any techniques that WILL NOT kill him (he is one of my legendary miners) but will knock him out so they can recover wounded?
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Re: How to knock unconscious
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2012, 09:22:22 pm »

I don't believe they need to be unconscious to be carried off, I vaguely remember my miners getting hauled off after dropping with a cave-in, they weren't unconscious, as far as i remember, just injured as hell with broken bones and stuff. Maybe make sure no one's sleeping in the hospital beds or something? If you're right about needing him to be unconscious I think maybe you can drop him a z-level down and maybe the fractures will cause him to pass out from the pain. (Kind of defeats the purpose of wanting him hauled off to get treated though)
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Re: How to knock unconscious
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2012, 10:58:44 pm »

Also make sure there is a path to him.
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Re: How to knock unconscious
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2012, 12:03:47 am »

Maybe the job was passed to Urist McFaraway, and he just has to run trough the entire fortress? You could look in the (j)obs list, if there is a "recover wounded" job listed and if there is a dwarf assigned to it.
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Re: How to knock unconscious
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2012, 05:09:46 am »

You could drop a floor or wall from above him. If it lands near him, the cloud of dust will probably cause some more wounds but at least he'll get a diagnosis request again.
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Re: How to knock unconscious
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2012, 06:39:14 am »

Just let him die and train up another Legendary Miner. Dwarves are expendable.
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Re: How to knock unconscious
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2012, 07:10:59 am »

Just let him die and train up another Legendary Miner. Dwarves are expendable.

thats a possibility, as miners arent hard to train...
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Re: How to knock unconscious
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2012, 09:08:38 am »

and with the new droprate change there isn't that much trouble to promote merely skilled, you won't lose more ore
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Re: How to knock unconscious
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2012, 10:22:23 am »

you know what concerns me a little bit? Miners are so important, they basically keep your Fortress running (if you dont want to be a elf-dwarf, blargh) and yet, those are the guys i do care the least.... i loose a legendary miner? I dont care, give one of the useless migrants a pick and send him down in the mine, wait 30 minutes and you have the legendary miner replaced. I loose a legendary weaponsmith? RAGE, endless piles of rage and frus....fun :D
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Re: How to knock unconscious
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2012, 10:24:57 am »

If you have an unsolved crime, you COULD sentence the injured dwarf to a beating. That might knock him out. Or kill him; but he's dead anyway if he doesn't pass out and get taken to the hospital.
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