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[Anvilsmith]

I'm not sure how it happened, although I suspect it's related to the fact that one of my masons got possessed by a spirit, and soon after went insane. The fellow managed to die to my guards fairly quickly, but everyone around him (including the guards themselves) seems to have become enraged.

I dropped from a population of 50 to 15 in five minutes; it doesn't look as though I'm going to survive, as even if only being near the corpse triggers the berzerker reaction, the fellow practically died right in the middle of the cramped hallway leading outside. What's funny is that I had kept him locked down, but got so many "cannot bring item to depot" messages that I unlocked his door anyway at some point before he went mad. Now I'm being spammed with "interrupted by combat" messages.

Are dwarves supposed to turn enraged and slaughter their mates every time they see someone die, or was it all a consequence of the spirit possession? In the latter case, well... I'm hoping the programmer will get rid of this "feature" before more unfortunate dwarves (and possibly players) lose their minds. I got no warning, no option to kill the possessed dwarf or remove the spirit somehow, and no idea that he would've caused such havoc. Having to quit because of a random event just isn't fun, despite what the game urges everyone to think.

[Captain Mayday]

That sounds like the civil war bug. Are you running the most recent version? That shouldn't happen anymore unless they're all being starved to death and begin to turn on each other.

[Anvilsmith]

I'm using v0.21.93.19a... Which I downloaded a few days ago, if I remember straight. Not exactly the newest version. Right now, my fortress has gone down to a single inhabitant, which, according to these forums, seems to be the norm for the civil war bug.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Dwarf fortress is an outstanding game, though it does have its frustrating moments.

I'll see if I can import my gameworld and fortress in the next version...

[Toady One]

You can just copy over your "data\save" folder into the newly extracted dwarves zip.  Unless something horrible happened to it in the meantime.