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[Ubiq]

Question: if you place a throne next to their bed, designate it as an office large enough to include said bed, and then give them a job as a Manager or Clerk, will they be able to do it even if bedridden?

[Vester]

They'll need to be using the throne, so probably not.

[Skorpion]

Just lock the door, they'll starve to death.

It's like euthanasia, only meaner.

[kilakan]

omfg that actually made me break out laughing,

Just lock the door, they'll starve to death.

It's like euthanasia, only meaner.

[Jim Groovester]

"There are ways... to cure spinal injuries."

"How does one learn these ways?"

"Not from a Jedi staunch vanilla DF player."

Spoiler: Cheating! (click to show/hide)

I wish nested spoilers worked. There'd be several here, because this is cheating of the highest order.

If you want to cure spinal injuries, open up body_default.txt, and scroll down to [BODY:SPINE] and unbracket [NERVOUS] on the afflicted body part. Save body_default.txt, and then load up Dwarf Fortress. In a few moments, you're bed ridden dwarf with a shattered spine will be walking around like he never broke it in the first place.

This works for neck injuries, heart injuries by unbracketing [CIRCULATION] (You can save dwarves who've had their hearts punctured with this!), lung injuries by unbracketing [BREATHE], guts injuries by unbracketing [GUTS], throat injuries by unbracketing [THROAT] and brain injuries by unbracketing [THOUGHT]. You need to be careful with unbracketing [THOUGHT] though; it makes everything with a brain fall unconscious, which is pretty much everything. So if you have a giant bat in a chasm you want to catch, you might want to add [NOTHOUGHT] to them when you unbracket [THOUGHT] so they don't fall to their deaths.

I don't recommend you do any of this during combat, unless you're trying to save a dwarf; it makes goblins shrug off mangled lungs and hearts, which makes them a lot harder to kill.

All other injuries, aside from dismemberments, heal on their own. You can speed up the process by adding [SMALL] to the afflicted body part. They'll heal their broken arms and legs quickly like mangled shoulders do, or broken thumbs, and the like.

That's my collected knowledge on how to cheat to heal dwarves without using a utility. I've never needed to deal with dismemberments, so I suppose I'll figure something out about that when I get the chance.

I'm sure I mangled the Star Wars quote, but since it's from Episode III, I don't think anybody cares.

[Elliott_Thinas]

Locking them in would be most effective, but come on, have a heart! I have a dwarf with a yellow spine injury and he has had it for over 5 years. I never expect him to recover. I assigned him to the Royal Guard so that he can soothe worried nobles. Putting him in the fortress guard seems nice but I imagine if he was tasked to arrest and lock up a dangerous dwarf he would never get around to doing it and the dwarf could roam my fortress unpunished. If you're really bloodthirsty you could capture a zombie animal and put it in his room, or if his room is only 1 tile you could drop a gobbo in and I expect he would fight in self defense.

[Fault]

i had a similar problem, 'cept it was a swordsdwarf who lost his entire left arm (his sword arm)
He is currently lying in bed in full plate with a shield in his right hand.
I don't understand why he doesn't just walk around, his legs working fine and all.

I honestly think he believes his arm will grow back if he sleeps it off enough.

[Angellus]

Never tried it myself, but I always thought it would be cool to first magma the guy, then pour water over, then mine it out and use the stone to create a statue (or a carp idol if you use dig deeper )

[Rowanas]

Han solo.

[Albedo]

That's my collected knowledge on how to cheat to heal dwarves without using a utility.

I sense a great disturbance in the code, as if millions of vanilla players were crying out... the raws are strong in this one...

[AtomicPaperclip]

"He could even keep the ones he loved from being bedridden"

"Is it possible to learn this power?"

"Not from a Jedi staunch vanilla DF player."

Spoiler: Cheating! (click to show/hide)

I wish nested spoilers worked. There'd be several here, because this is cheating of the highest order.

If you want to cure spinal injuries, open up body_default.txt, and scroll down to [BODY:SPINE] and unbracket [NERVOUS] on the afflicted body part. Save body_default.txt, and then load up Dwarf Fortress. In a few moments, you're bed ridden dwarf with a shattered spine will be walking around like he never broke it in the first place.

This works for neck injuries, heart injuries by unbracketing [CIRCULATION] (You can save dwarves who've had their hearts punctured with this!), lung injuries by unbracketing [BREATHE], guts injuries by unbracketing [GUTS], throat injuries by unbracketing [THROAT] and brain injuries by unbracketing [THOUGHT]. You need to be careful with unbracketing [THOUGHT] though; it makes everything with a brain fall unconscious, which is pretty much everything. So if you have a giant bat in a chasm you want to catch, you might want to add [NOTHOUGHT] to them when you unbracket [THOUGHT] so they don't fall to their deaths.

I don't recommend you do any of this during combat, unless you're trying to save a dwarf; it makes goblins shrug off mangled lungs and hearts, which makes them a lot harder to kill.

All other injuries, aside from dismemberments, heal on their own. You can speed up the process by adding [SMALL] to the afflicted body part. They'll heal their broken arms and legs quickly like mangled shoulders do, or broken thumbs, and the like.

That's my collected knowledge on how to cheat to heal dwarves without using a utility. I've never needed to deal with dismemberments, so I suppose I'll figure something out about that when I get the chance.

I'm sure I mangled the Star Wars quote, but since it's from Episode III, I don't think anybody cares.

I care D:

Mostly fixed.

[Caz]

turn his bedroom into a spike pit. a spike pit filled with magma and carp.

[Uber dwarf2.0]

How about locking him in a 1x1 room WITH a door(so you can use it again)and channel out to floor and replace it with a grate.Make a pool or something below,and use it as a stasis.There's mist which will make dwarfs happy whenever they visit him,Water thats right around him.Food can't really be that far away so....A visit to the dwarven zoo?

[Elliott_Thinas]

Albedo, Groovester, you guys just made my day with those awesome star wars quotes. Thank you!

[Kietharr]

I got two hammerdwarves with broken spines in one siege, funnily enough I also needed some royal guards! I also had a marksdwarf who got shot in the damned head during the same siege and lost both eyes and took brain damage. Another fortress guard!

I had 3 at that point but my dutchess was getting quite crass at this point and started mandating the construction of items I had no way to complete (including wolf bone items, too bad THERE ARE NO WOLVES ON THE MAP) and killed my legendary bone carver (who was responsible for over 5,000,000 of my fortress wealth) by jailing her, which sent her already unhappy miasma laden life into a downward spiral, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't make her happy again, even gave her a room full of bauxite block floors and a red spiniel encrusted bauxite statue, all bauxite furniture and a giant cave spider silk rope with a cat on it (her favorite things were bauxite, red spiniel, and cats) and she just couldn't handle it so she threw herself into a pool and drowned.

The worst part is I had that fairly large ridiculously red room with a personal craftsdwarf workshop (also made of bauxite) and not a single one of my good dwarves has the same tastes! Figures, she had no friends or family either.