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[Urist Da Vinci]

Vampires won't drown, so you can process all migrants through a flooding trap room, set up to drain quickly after a second or two so no-one actually dies. Pause the game and see who isn't worried about the lack of air...

[Broseph Stalin]

Vampires won't drown, so you can process all migrants through a flooding trap room, set up to drain quickly after a second or two so no-one actually dies. Pause the game and see who isn't worried about the lack of air...

You can also break their necks and see if it kills them. It's not as easy or efficient but break their necks. 

[Lord Dullard]

Shouldn't be that hard to get booze to them without endangering your dwarves. Just seal them in a barracks/room. Put another room above it with a hole in the floor (call it a 'booze chute') marked as a garbage zone. When you need to give the toothy little buggers a drink to speed them up, just have your dwarves toss a couple of hundred booze down the chute, unforbid the booze once it lands on the next level down with the vampires, then go back to business as usual until you have to repeat the process.

[BigD145]

-Appears vampires don't suffocate, use this knowledge wisely.

It's a good thing I'm experienced at making drowning traps.

[Kavalion]

Can vampires ever be stopped before finishing the act if witnessed?  Or is draining instant?

I believe it is instant, so far they have been caught in the act, however the victim always seems to die.

I have a dwarf that has seemingly survived when a witness popped up.  It was Pale, now merely Faint.  But no one reported the vampire having done anything... Unless I just have to wait for the job to queue.

[Wastedlabor]

I assume booze haulers will be ok, as long as they don't fall asleep in the vampire nest.

[Vehudur]

If a vampire is hungry enough they will grab and drink from an awake dwarf.

[Wastedlabor]

Dang. I hope they like dog blood.

[Splint]

Has anyone tried throwing blood barrels down to them?

[Urist McKiwi]

If a vampire is hungry enough they will grab and drink from an awake dwarf.

If this includes cheesemakers and nobles, there's a use for this.

[Protesilaus]

My only vampire was a Dwarven law-giver of a human city who showed up as a diplomat. Nothing happened while he was there and the next year the humans had a new leader (who was then killed by goblins so they seiged me).

I had one weird death that I could figure out. In the middle of the dining room 2 dwarves got into a fight. Both were happy, one kicked the head of the other in. He was convicted with a dozen witnesses turning him in. The two dwarves were passing acquaintances.

[Kavalion]

It appears that vampires never sleep, and so never claim a room.  Checking a suspect's holdings can help figure out who the vampire is.

I'm hoping the sheriff/hammerer will be revamped a bit to be a useful tag-team of investigation and execution of vampires in the future.

[thegoatgod_pan]

I think vampires should be sheriff/captain of the guard. Much more elegant that hammering to death. Just burrow them into the prison.

[miauw62]

Dont vampires in adventure mode have tons of human leather/tooth stuff?
I'm not sure if they would bring this, but this is a neat guide, when magmawiki makes a new namespace, this should be copied over in some way or another.

[Moosey]

Wait, I got it!  Make a bunch of cloth, dye it black, and make cloaks out of it.  Whoever starts hoarding black cloaks is obviously a vampire!