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[Guyinthenorth]

Hello,

I had posted this in the Dwarf Fortress reddit community, but due to their festering, boiling hatred of disabled people I have been told to take my stupid question elsewhere to the 1000k+ comment 'daily questions thread' Despite saying that I physically cannot see or read through a 1,000 comment thread due to vision issues and ADHD..... nope, how dare I ask a question. Even after informing that I am disabled and have issues, no response or care. Since I am completely unable to even see my own post in that question thread.... I have had to come here.

Hopefully people are a little more accommodating here.

I was really excited to share a happening that in 10+ years of playing.... has never occurred.

So here I am, in a hopefully more accommodating community.

Anyway...

I have Elephants in my fort. I just had two necromancers arrive.

I want to have them zombify an elephant.

How do I engineer this to happen?

I've been playing well over a decade and I have never had this circumstance come to happen before.

[LuuBluum]

Necromancers tend to raise the dead of anything adjacent to them when they're in a position of "danger", i.e. somehow threatened by a hostile creature. So, the most straightforward approach would be to have the dead elephant be adjacent to the necromancer as they're attacked by some other creature that you've perhaps captured, such as a goblin (who has hopefully been disarmed). The newly-zombified elephant should save them from dying from whatever creature you used to put them in danger.

[Guyinthenorth]

Thank you.

I haven't been able to find anything in the wiki or this posted elsewhere.

I really, really appreciate it!

[Duuvian]

An old tactic is to wall the necro behind fortifications (use a lever attached to their cage beforehand so you can release them) and surround it with drawbridges that can be lowered by lever pull. Chain a puppy in their view so they feel threatened, and put some corpses within range of their undead raising ability. Pull the lever and the bridges lower, the necromancer fears the puppy, and in this way you can create omnicidal undead armies at will.

However I haven't done this yet and it's going off of old threads, such as LoudWhisper's NecroBacon thread.