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[Iamblichos]

So... I have started keeping Legend Viewer open with an export of my world while I play.  That way I am able to read the events depicted on my engraved walls, figure out which mobs are coming to visit, and so forth.

The first werebeast that came to my fort was associated with a lair on the other side of a Large Region world... sort of like if I lived in New York and the local criminals left me alone, but I got attacked by someone who had traveled from Brazil to do so.  What the hell?  Do the associations with lairs happen once and mean nothing, or is the creature theoretically supposed to live in/around his "lair"?

[Loud Whispers]

Entities travel quickly in the world map but I didn't think they traveled that quickly

[Iamblichos]

Yes, I was pretty surprised when I checked out the location where the creature was supposed to live!

[Abaddon]

Sorry for the necro - it seems like werebeast attacks are still instant, I had saved moments before one entered the map, after it was dead I was curious to see if I could infect a dwarf so I savescummed only to have a different werebeast come (and I thought the world was only full of werelama!)

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Well, they are only werebeasts for one night...

[Quietust]

Megabeast and night creature attacks are handled the same way as caravan/diplomat visits and migrant waves - at the beginning of the season, the game decides that it's going to happen and sets a timer, and the event happens once the timer runs out.

Notably, megabeast and night creature events simply choose a random "eligible" (i.e. able to survive in your fortress's biome) creature from anywhere in the world and make it instantly appear at your doorstep.

Sieges used to work the same way back in 0.34.11 and earlier, but 0.40 changed them to actually use armies moving across the overworld. Megabeasts and night creatures may eventually be adjusted in the same way, but not today.

[TheFlame52]

Ah, that's how I was able to get a male giant, when the only one in the world lived on an island.

[Borge]

I wonder if when the tavern update comes out visitors will spread rumours of armies marching towards your fortress.