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Spleenling

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Suicidal Dwarfs?
« on: September 23, 2012, 03:36:05 am »
Ive had several of my dwarfs randomly dead from Hunger or Thirst in their beds despite having maybe a years worth of food freely available.
Do dwarfs commit suicide if they are unhappy?
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MonkeyHead

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Re: Suicidal Dwarfs?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2012, 03:42:58 am »
Yes. Specifically, failed moods leading to melancholy.

More probable is that they couldnt get to the food, or were injured and nobody took food to them.
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Spleenling

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Re: Suicidal Dwarfs?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2012, 04:20:53 am »
I think they were injured as i have found 2 other dwarfs who despite being unable to walk were in their rooms.
How they got there is a mystery as there are free "hospital" beds and there can't have been injured in battle
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Re: Suicidal Dwarfs?
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2012, 06:44:53 am »
Dwarves can also go melancholy from other sources of sadness, like all insanity. You always get an announcement for this, though, and they tend to try and find water or magma to drown/burn in rather than staying in their room.

If they were injured, they probably dehydrated to death from negligence.
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Re: Suicidal Dwarfs?
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2012, 08:49:47 am »
Some dwarfs will commit suicide if they are extremely unhappy they can jump off a ledge stop eating or they will go berserk killing everyone until struck down
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