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[Relee]

I'm on a map with a river instead of a brook. The river is full of fish which are registered on the Unit List as Wild Animals.

When my dwarves tried to go to the river for a drink after I ran out of alcohol, they kept getting scared away by a Sea Lamprey. I tried to have them drink from a Murky Pool but they said it was foul.

I've never seen fish appear on the Unit List before.

[Flame11235]

There's vermin fish, which fisherdwarves catch, and animal fish, which catch fisherdwarves.

[Blacken]

There's vermin fish, which fisherdwarves catch, and animal fish, which catch fisherdwarves.

Totally sigging that.

[Dame de la Licorne]

And the animal fish are listed as wild animals.  They include such dreaded creatures as carp, sturgeon aaannnnd....sea lampreys.  Enjoy! 

[Relee]

Also Pike. So this isn't a bug then... I guess these fish don't appear in murky pools or brooks. ^.^;;

Will hunters go after them?

[Dame de la Licorne]

Will hunters go after them?

Hunters will go after anything labeled "wild animal" but, are you very attached to that hunter?  Because he/she won't be coming back.

[Duke 2.0]

Will hunters go after them?

Hunters will go after anything labeled "wild animal" but, are you very attached to that hunter?  Because he/she won't be coming back.

 Unless they happen to be a good swimmer. Or you have a lot of ramps around the edges of the water-source.

[Alenth Eneil]

There's vermin fish, which fisherdwarves catch, and animal fish, which catch fisherdwarves.

Totally sigging that.

This should be one of the random messages on the main wiki page.

[Dame de la Licorne]

Will hunters go after them?

Hunters will go after anything labeled "wild animal" but, are you very attached to that hunter?  Because he/she won't be coming back.

 Unless they happen to be a good swimmer. Or you have a lot of ramps around the edges of the water-source.

I have never yet had a hunter (or any dwarf, military or otherwise, for that matter) return from a disagreement with an animal fish, regardless of swimming skill or ramps.

[Relee]

Geez if I had known rivers were so dangerous I would have found someplace with a brook instead of a stream. Oh well, live and learn...

[Ubersoldat]

Their danger is a bit exaggerated sometimes. Rivers are really only a problem for fisherdwarves and thirsty dwarves that try to drink from the river.

Now, if the river is in a terrifying area, then that's dangerous. Skeletal fish will hunt dwarves down and murder everything.

[SocietalEclipse]

In 38c they did appear in murky pools at the start but I'm not sure if they respawned because that fortress got crushed quickly.

[Relee]

GYAH you guys weren't kidding. I just had a kobold get discovered and run from my fort. I ignored him since he was leaving, but shortly after I got an announcement that someone stopped drinking 'cause of a longnose gar, and when I went to the river to check (I had them drinking out of an uninhabited part up stream) I noticed that the kobold had been torn asunder, and exploded, by the fish's death ray.

P.S. It's really neat watching the blood flow downstream. o.o;;