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[fortressdwarf]

On my current fortress, I have a huge aquifer that i have been in the process of penetrating. Things were going smoothly enough until my metalcrafter, who entered a strange mood and whose demands could not be met, went berserk. He's standing outside of the door of a room moving back and forth over two squares without actually attacking anyone (but he did earlier, killing one dwarf, a dog, and knocking another dwarf unconscious). Most of the dwarves are in the room he is standing outside of and they keep running around in circles without trying to take him down. This happened in a similar manner in another fortress, and in both circumstances all activity in the fortress came to a screeching halt. I find it very frustrating that my burly dwarves are running around like chickens with their heads cut off while some madman shouts at them from thirty yards off. Is there any way to inspire courage in my dwarves so that they can take him down?

[Jim Groovester]

Easy. Draft a bunch of dwarves, and your berserk dwarf will be dead in moments as the mob pummels him.

[Xofrevlis]

Draft some of them? Seriously, civilian dwarves (except hunters) basically won't even go near anything remotely threatening, from groundhogs to a troll stuck ten floors below them in a chasm.

Edit:
Whoops, beaten to it.

[fortressdwarf]

Thank you! He has been taken care of, and he was in fact killed in moments by the mob. I'm still in the process of learning the finer points of the game and I have a lot to learn about military matters.

[Slinkyfest]

Thank you! He has been taken care of, and he was in fact killed in moments by the mob. I'm still in the process of learning the finer points of the game and I have a lot to learn about military matters.

A good measure to take when in doubt; draft 'em and let Armok sort em out.