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[zooeyglass]

So, I had a WereMammoth Child attack my fortress. He killed a dwarf, swam in my moat, drank some blood, and just left as a goblin child. should I be worried?

Not really - as soon as the moon changes he has reverted to his usual state (goblin child, it would seem) and scarpered.

[Garath]

He might be back for another snack at some point.

[alondite1010]

Would he be hard to kill if he does comeback? He's only a child, and one of my dogs had already ripped off one of his arms

[vorpal+5]

What is the usage of blood sold in barrels?

[Trif]

You can sell it to the next caravan.

Or you could put it in your temple to Armok.

Yeah, it's useless.

[Sphalerite]

What is the usage of blood sold in barrels?

In the vanilla game, none.  Them showing up at all is a bug.  You can however add [EDIBLE_COOKED] to blood to make them usable as cooking ingredients.

[alondite1010]

Mmm, i did that, and 15 of my meals are now "Tallow, blood, blood, and tallow" Wow.... That's.... not wrong at all....

[beefsupreme]

Do building destroyers go after paved roads, or can I have one running the length of my map with no problems from trolls and the like?

[GoldenShadow]

I dont think so. the ones I had ran past straight to beat on the doors.

[Garath]

lowered bridges can be destroyed too it is said, but noone can really confirm it since creatures prefer to walk over them instead of destroying their way into the fort.

[Number7]

Accursed smoke has begun entering my area (this is my first embark into an evil area)

WHAT IS IT GOING TO DO TO MY DWARVES?

[zooeyglass]

Accursed smoke has begun entering my area (this is my first embark into an evil area)

WHAT IS IT GOING TO DO TO MY DWARVES?

find out, for !science!

[Garath]

possibly nothing, possibly turning them into mindless unstoppable killing machines

Wiki time!

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Types of evil weather

Two kinds of evil weather exist - evil rain and evil clouds. The type of weather effect and their associated syndromes (if any) are different and randomly chosen for every evil biome in a generated world. Usually there will be only one weather effect for a given evil biome, often in conjunction with the effect of corpse animation.
 
Evil rain can be made of either the blood of a civilized race (dwarves, goblins, etc.) or a randomly generated inorganic substance. Blood rain typically causes no syndromes, only giving whomever caught in it an unhappy thought. Generated substances are more dangerous, causing minor symptoms such as vomiting, blisters and fevers, as well as inspiring the aforementioned unhappy thought. Dwarves caught into evil rain will spend a lot of time washing up after any outdoors work.
 
Evil clouds are made of a generated inorganic gas or dust. They start in one tile and spread out in a similar manner to miasma vapor; when the game announces the cloud's presence, it will zoom into this tile. Evil clouds cause more serious syndromes than evil rains, similar to those of forgotten beasts, titans and demons. Certain evil clouds transform living beings caught in them into dangerous zombie-like thralls, turning them against all life while significantly increasing their strength and toughness attributes.
 
Name for evil weather is randomly generated, typically something along the lines of "abominable mist", "unholy gloom" (clouds) or "creeping murk", "horrid goo" (rain).
 
Evil weather forms on the edge of the map and moves about the screen. It does not necessarily respect walls, and may enter a fortress to affect your dwarves.
 
[edit] Dangers of evil weather

One of the dangers of evil weather is that ponds will never refill. Store water into underground basins and plan accordingly. Another annoyance is the total lack of wild bees in an evil climate. Though evil rains (excluding rains of blood) usually cause the "milder" types of syndromes, these may still cause death as a secondary result of that syndrome: e.g. suffocation from blisters, dehydration from chronic nausea. Evil clouds inflict worse syndromes than evil rains; thralling clouds are especially dangerous in the extreme, as the zombies produced are much stronger than those produced via ambient effects.
 
Some evil weather effects condense on creatures, making their effects semi-permanent - symptoms won't go away until the source is washed. Those effects also can spread like a disease. In most cases, it will just infect dwarves that carry contaminated bodies to caskets. Thralling dust clouds, however, can quickly lead to an unstoppable zombie apocalypse if the dust is not completely washed off somehow.
 

Thralling clouds are also dangerous in adventure mode. Undead status means hostility from civilized beings, reduced speed and no regeneration. However, other undead will ignore you.
 

[FrisianDude]

Mmm, i did that, and 15 of my meals are now "Tallow, blood, blood, and tallow" Wow.... That's.... not wrong at all....

Sounds better than just tallow, nutritionally.

[Number7]

I really need tips for surviving an evil biome, so far two dwarves became husks, one of which crippled both my military dwarves (tore tendons out of their legs) despite being horribly beaten and cut and stabbed in the brain and spine broken and so much damage done.

so basically i'm 4 dwarves down at this point, how do i salvage the situation?