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[sotrans]

A couple of tame animated weapons suddenly started to attack my dwarves. And they can't be selected for an attack by the military squads, so they're causing a lot of dead dwarves in my fortress.

Is this a bug? Or an evil magery? (There only enemy on the map is a forgotten beast, though.) Can they be calmed down somehow?

Thanks for any hints!

[Meph]

Are they berserk or opposed to life? Any sort of poison, or enemy mage somewhere? Because obviously they shouldnt attack anyone. Maybe a loyality cascade, and the animated weapon pets just attack the dwarves flagged as enemies... (?)

[sotrans]

Thanks for your hint. Even though i knew about the occasional revenge, i didn't know that there's such a thing like a loyalty cascade - just checked the wiki. In the meanwhile i can't check anymore, since i abandoned the fortress. But i think you're right, since the whole thing started with a schizophrenic dwarf who had been struck down (or maybe a dwarf who had been struck down by the schizophrenic). The announcements are an easy thing to miss.

By the way, the announcements are quite often only one page long, with no way to check older pages. I don't remember this from older Masterwork Dwarf Fortress versions. Is there some kind of maximum of log lines that is shared with the fight reports? With the diseases the fight reports often become very numerous and stuffed.

[SabbyKat]

Very likely if you have diseases ON, a skitzo or depressed dwarf took a swing at another dwarf and caused a cascade when the animated weapons attack. It's a major problem with diseases right now.

 As well, the combat log spam of diseases is yet another issue that screws up combat reports and makes it difficult to confirm what happened, unless you're literally watching the scene happen and check in 5-10 seconds. >.<

[kreepergrimms]

in that case. would there be a way to disable all of the disease spam? i get 50 announcements of urist mcdwarfy has regained conscious but no reports of what is happening in fights

[sotrans]

You could disable diseases.

[Meph]

Its sadly nothing I can affect... combat log is the only thing that shows up when using interactions... I wish there was a "I" for Interaction log... like the "h" for hunting.