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Duhwolf

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Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« on: March 18, 2012, 02:46:39 pm »
So for no reason in particular there is a HammerDwarf marked as friendly on the map. The HammerDwarf is not one of my Dwarves and just stands around outside doing nothing. The description given is like an animal and I can't see anything else about her. My fort isn't even into its second year yet and I only have 14 Dwarves. There are no merchants. Also the game is completley vanilla. I've been playing for 4 years now and have never come across  this. Is it maybe a bug?

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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2012, 02:48:21 pm »
Could be a werecreature in human form?
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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2012, 02:49:00 pm »
Likely is the same thing as the friendly Trader bug. Do you know if it arrived with a migrant wave?
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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2012, 02:50:15 pm »
I have encountered someting similar in the current version and could be what is known as the  "trader bug". A third of my migrants behave like this.

are you using the current version though? the units list looks like DF2010

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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2012, 02:54:06 pm »
I am using DF 31.21 to be exact.

Will look up friendly trader bug though.

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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2012, 02:55:54 pm »
Basically, friendly dwarves marked as @ (if you're not using a tileset) will show up with waves of migrants and then just hang around until they're killed. Never seen it with anything except traders before, though.
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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2012, 02:57:29 pm »
Seems to be a glitch where traders and/or caravan guards arrive a little bit ahead of schedual.

These dwarves always leave with the caravans for me.
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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2012, 03:02:03 pm »
@Splint

Caravan allready left. I probably just missed her durring a migration. If it is the friendly trader bug.

Didn't know it was in the 2010 DF though.
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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2012, 03:05:03 pm »
I'll see soon if the bug expanded though, dwarven caravan about to leave.
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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2012, 04:07:20 pm »
Hm, I have a fortress in its fourth year with 115 Dwarfs, it's a county, and I got a friendly marksdwarf much like yours. The description and everything is pretty standard; same as the bug-traders and also same as merchants and merchant-guards irt format. The marksdwarf did NOT arrive with a migrant wave, I'm sure of that. 

Actually; checking again, he/she has left. Huh. Okay.
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Re: Random Friendly Hammerdwarf
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2012, 07:24:58 pm »
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Hm, I have a fortress in its fourth year with 115 Dwarfs, it's a county, and I got a friendly marksdwarf much like yours. The description and everything is pretty standard; same as the bug-traders and also same as merchants and merchant-guards irt format. The marksdwarf did NOT arrive with a migrant wave, I'm sure of that. 

Actually; checking again, he/she has left. Huh. Okay.

Yeah same thing for me. The Hammerdwarf just dissapeared after a couple of in-game days. ( Two minutes)
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