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[AllThingsLive]

Randomly I got the notice "Blah BlahBlah - Hunter has bled to death" so I look at the report and see that one of my recruits has murdered him.
As far as I can tell by the report, the recruit just walked up and slashed him in half. It doesn't say that the hunter accidentily shot the recruit or anything. I looked at the "Justice" tab in the Z menu, and it shows the name of my hunter ( Not the recruit ) and says deceased. So, maybe this means that the hunter did something wrong?
If you have any ideas as to what happened, please share.

[twilightdusk]

mandate wasn't met, hunter had relevant labor on and was chosen for punishment. you don't have jails set up, so a fortress guard went and beat him with whatever weapon he has equipped.

[AllThingsLive]

Oh, well that's not very fair! The mayor wanted FIRE IMP LEATHER! And 3 of them!

[twilightdusk]

which is why you either a) set up jails (restraints or cages turned into a room) or b) don't have a fortress guard (preventing any punishment from being doled out).

[CapnUrist]

Or C. Set up a pretty kaolinite lever for your mayor to yank on.

[CaptRory]

Could you give your Fortress Guards, say, clubs of Feather Tree wood to administer beatings with and make sure they all have low strength values?

[NecroRebel]

You could, but there's still some risk that the fortress guard member will get a lucky, fatal or permanently-crippling blow, even with a no-quality feather wood training sword or adamantine mace/war hammer. Better to have a jail, no police force, or dead nobles.

[Max White]

I love building day spas jails, full of the most fine crafted valuable objects you can get your hands on law and justice.

[iyaerP]

Personally I just issue my fortress guard with donkey bone crossbows but no ammo.

Noone ever even gets bruises cuz the donkey bone glances off their clothing.

[ZachUSAman]

you will need about 10 jails, all of them very well equip so that the dwarf isnt too upset about randomly being imprisoned.
either that or you get a new noble with less desirable tastes...

I found this out the hard way when my mayor who loved adamantite decided to punish everyone with the armorcrafting/blacksmithing ability...
after my 5 jails filled up, justice was dispensed via a legendary axedwarf.... new armorsmith is still training.

[TheSummoner]

This is why you choose an expedition leader with a preference for things you can easily supply...

Pre-embark, look at your seven dwarves. Check their preferences. Find one who only likes things that you can make and nothing that you can't/don't want to. Make that one your expidition leader. Later, he'll become mayor and start making mandates, but they'll all be things you can provide because you picked a dwarf with preferences for those things. Promote him to baron when time comes.

Not sure about the state of migrant nobles since I tend to get bored of my fortresses rather easily, but for nobles you can pick, a little work chosing the right dwarf will save you alotta headaches when you get further along the road.

[Untelligent]

I don't mind making jails and guards because if the happiness system hasn't changed much in a while getting out of jail gives such a huge boost that even the most depressed dwarf becomes ecstatic. I suppose it's a tradeoff between tantrumers accidentally killing your dwarves and fortress guards accidentally killing your dwarves.

'course I could stop hurling dead dwarves in the river but that sounds like a lot of work.

[leftycook]

"greetings, urist! come to join me in a spot of hunting?"
"aye. says here you didnt deliver the mayors three fire imp leathers. i'm here to collect."
"but urist,  i have nary a- U-URK"

urist mc hunter has bled to death