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[Gizogin]

My current fort is doing well.  Fourth year, solid defenses, ample food, and the general mood is good.  I have a room in the middle of my fortress where I've contained no fewer than five vampires, all of which arrived at different times.  Finding them wasn't too difficult, after I found the first one and knew what to look for.  To contain them, I assigned them all to a vamp-only squad and stationed them in the room, then locked the door once they were all in it.  Now, though, I want to do something with these vampires.  Any suggestions?

Additional info:
I'm currently searching for magma, but I've managed to dig down nearly 100 z-levels without finding it so far, so I'm not sure if that's going to be an option.  I do, however, have plenty of access to steel.  Also, there's a necromancer tower nearby, and I've already been sieged by them a few times.  Same with the goblin civ my dwarves are currently at war with. 

[olopi]

Let them train 24/7, as soon as you get attacked unleash the horde

[luisedgm]

lock them in a room with no doors. only built walls, and throw some slabs there, your fortress will be immortal, and if too many dwarves die outside the room and ghosts try to murder them just place the slabs to make them dissapear

[slothen]

drop a pick in with the vampires too.

Seriously though, just have them train weapon skills 24/7 and use them to bust sieges.  If they get hurt though they'll need to feed, so make some accessible bedrooms near the vampires and assign useless dwarves to them.

[daggerbite]

I have a spare vampire too, I'm thinking of creating a vampire squad room with training equipment and maybe with an airlock room ajoining for peasant lunchtimes. We'll let him out during sieges and beast visits.

Hmm quick question- can you assign children to a bed or is it just adult dwarfs?

[MikaTheCrazy]

Useless dorf disposal system. I like this thread. You could also use them in !!SCIENCE!! experiments that are too dangerous for normal dorfs.

[Zsword]

Useless dorf disposal system. I like this thread. You could also use them in !!SCIENCE!! experiments that are too dangerous for normal dorfs.

There are !!EXPIREMENTS!! too dangerous for normal dwarves?! BAH!

[forsaken1111]

I like the idea of using vampires as an ultimate fail-safe for fortress emergencies. I would build each vampire into a 3x3 iron tomb with a pump attached to nothing and a bed. Have them perpetually pump and sleep to keep them occupied. Stock a storage room with all the essentials (picks, seeds, lumber, etc) packed into metal barrels/bins and then wall that room off as well so there is no possibility of anything getting in or out and vermin won't gnaw through the barrels (do they still do that?). The vampires can be kept busy pumping or doing military


If the fortress falls to some disaster, you can have the vampires deconstruct the constructed iron walls and carry on.

Also I'd love to see a drop test experiment redone with vampires. How far can a vampire fall and survive?

[robertheinrich]

Make one of them your bookie. They never sleep or eat or drink, so there are no distractions from automatically counting your stocks. As for the rest, yeah, training them with every possible weapon type sounds neat.

Alternatively skill important crafting jobs up to legendary and reward them with peasants. Keep them safely contained in a seperate colony where invasions and FBs canīt harm them.

[forsaken1111]

Make one of them your bookie. They never sleep or eat or drink, so there are no distractions from automatically counting your stocks. As for the rest, yeah, training them with every possible weapon type sounds neat.

Alternatively skill important crafting jobs up to legendary and reward them with peasants. Keep them safely contained in a seperate colony where invasions and FBs canīt harm them.

Imagine the legends that would grow up from this.

There is an area of the fortress with an unnatural chill about it. The sounds of constant combat training and crafting fill the air, and slips of paper with the fort's current stockpile fall from a small slit in the wall. All who venture beyond that point are never heard from again.

[brucemo]

Don't drop them in magma unless you want vampire ghosts.

A sane way to kill them is a 1x1 room with an upright spike trap.

[Karakzon]

vampires main advantages are: no food, no drink, no sleep.

Therefore, if you can manage to seperate them from the other dwarves or other outsiders, they would make excellent miners and masons, being able to craft any fortress design you so wish within a shorter amount of time than normal. Though i belive they still need a meeting area for breaks.

[forsaken1111]

Request: DFHack utility which transforms all dwarves into vampires.

Can vampires feed on one another?

[Frogwarrior]

They cannot. They can, however, feed on nobles. They are an excellent unwanted-dwarf disposal system; just drop-trap an unwanted dwarf into the pit with them. Eventually they'll fall asleep........

[robertheinrich]

vampires main advantages are: no food, no drink, no sleep.

Therefore, if you can manage to seperate them from the other dwarves or other outsiders, they would make excellent miners and masons, being able to craft any fortress design you so wish within a shorter amount of time than normal. Though i belive they still need a meeting area for breaks.

When my vamp bookkeeper take breaks sheīll walk to her bedroom and stand around there for a while and admire the masterful engravings and her furniture. I gave her a bedroom and an office (no dining room, no meeting hall). Both masterfully engraved and filled with nice stuff. Then walled off the corridor leading to that section. She has been content for years now, no matter what grueful sieges outside eradicate all my pop. Once you identify and properly isolate them vampires are low-maintenance.