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[Hyperlynx]

I've recently come back to Dwarf Fortress after a hiatus of several years. My fort's going great, except for the fact that I've just had a vampire as a guest, and after getting rid of them I now have another one.

I've identified that the vampire isn't any of my dwarves, so it must be a visitor. But if I order the military to kill the two new nobles that arrived just before the first vampire victim, I get a loyalty cascade bug.

The last vampire I was finally able to identify by savescumming, after vetting all my recent migrants and comparing *all* my dwarves' names with what's reported in Dwarf Therapist. The same person was killed each time I restored my save. So I stationed the military at their bedroom. The Duke Consort then arrived, turned into a vampire, and murdered them. Annoyingly the military didn't attack of their own accord and I had to order the attack myself...

I don't know why that didn't cause a loyalty cascade while killing these two new nobles does. Unless maybe it's because one of them isn't a vampire?...

Anyway, I'm looking for advice for A: identifying vampires from your guests *before* they kill people, and B: disposing of them, since being non-citizens I can't just order them to stand somewhere they'll have an unfortunate accident.

[Garfunkel]

In my understanding the only way to prevent such things is to prevent all visitors in general.

[NTJedi]

From my experience it's best to remove vampires completely from the game otherwise you spend too much time trying to find a stealthy murderer who's killing your dwarves as compared to enjoying the rest of the game. 
Another idea would be if there's a way to set a fixed number of vampires in the world such as 10... then I wouldn't mind solving the mystery to permanently destroy a vampire or use the vampire as a caged guard.   I wonder how that could be done?