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GRead

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Undead at peace with local wildlife
« on: March 04, 2008, 10:56:00 pm »

Just started a fortress in a thoroughly haunted locale, and was surprised to note a herd of live elephants wandering about, even more surprised to note that the herd is a mixture of live and undead elephants and they seem to be getting along just fine. Not a big problem or anything just kind of... wierd.
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FunnyMan

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Re: Undead at peace with local wildlife
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2008, 07:29:00 am »

Makes sense to me.  The elephants collapsed, died, stood back up, and rejoined their herd.

Edit: Gameplay-wise, that may mean that elephants are peaceful with elephants, regardless of whether they're alive or not.

[ March 05, 2008: Message edited by: FunnyMan ]

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Re: Undead at peace with local wildlife
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2008, 09:27:00 am »

Pretty sure that's a result of a fix of a previous bug, in which "new" undead that wandered into the area would get into fights with the undead which were already there.

Sort of unfortunate, since I have a tendency to embark in areas with haunted lakes/rivers and the first thing to happen is always a massive live-fish kill...

[edit: fixed unclarity. Or something.]

[ March 05, 2008: Message edited by: grelphy ]

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Re: Undead at peace with local wildlife
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2008, 09:22:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by grelphy:
<STRONG>Pretty sure that's a result of a fix of a previous bug, in which "new" undead that wandered into the area would get into fights with the undead which were already there.
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This should be a feature! Undead fighting for territory, FTW!

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Re: Undead at peace with local wildlife
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2008, 02:17:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by FunnyMan:
<STRONG>Makes sense to me.  The elephants collapsed, died, stood back up, and rejoined their herd.

Edit: Gameplay-wise, that may mean that elephants are peaceful with elephants, regardless of whether they're alive or not.

[ March 05, 2008: Message edited by: FunnyMan ]</STRONG>


Seems to me there's two kinds of undead: Mindless malevolent, like a zombie horror movie, and friendly-yet-falling-apart, like a zombie comedy movie.

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