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Author Topic: Bunch of dwarves chasing weregoat, is there a way to make them stop?  (Read 455 times)

Squill

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Bunch of dwarves chasing weregoat, is there a way to make them stop?
« on: December 25, 2015, 07:33:08 pm »

So the U is the human form of the weregoat, and all my military and a bunch of civilians are chasing all over the place. Two questions: Some of them have the blue "thirsty" arrow, do I need to worry about them chasing them too long and dying of dehydration? And, my military is out of ammo, is there a way to get them to restock?
EDIT: Alright, so after several minutes of running around, they finally cornered the bastard and stamped him to death, and the ones who didn't go get drunk took a nap right there on the floor. My question still stands though, is there a way of preventing this in the future?
« Last Edit: December 25, 2015, 07:37:16 pm by Squill »
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Re: Bunch of dwarves chasing weregoat, is there a way to make them stop?
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2015, 08:48:05 pm »
You really can't prevent it.  It's because dwarves are too fearless after drinking alcohol.  Supposedly Toady plans on toning it down a bit.

In the mean time, make gold or platinum mugs.  Dwarves carry them around all the time and because they're dense they'll serve as a decent bashing weapon.
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Re: Bunch of dwarves chasing weregoat, is there a way to make them stop?
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2015, 02:47:19 pm »
Not really. They're feeling vengeful - it's a bug from the emotion update back then. Apparently worsened by the alcohol fearlessness thing.

Just listen to this and follow the chase up to it's conclusion.
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Re: Bunch of dwarves chasing weregoat, is there a way to make them stop?
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2015, 08:40:08 am »
Only thing that has worked for me is burrows...have an area set for civilians and when a werebeast or whatever comes restrict them to the burrow and have your military handle it.

As for reloading mid fight? I think they only do that if they can't path to the enemy. This seems like a feature though....it would be amazingly frustrating if the attackers followed your dwarves to the ammo stores inside your base on account of your dwarves mindlessly seeking ammo instead of fighting.
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