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[Raphite1]

Second year, a FB showed up in my first cavern. A humanoid made of salt, with some stylish antennae and deadly dust. I *thought* that it had no access to my fort proper, and it didn't seem to be in a hurry to do anything, so I went about other business.

I went to check on its status a few minutes later, and it was dead. It's corpse was near an emergency well platform I had made on the cavern lake, which I hadn't realized was just barely connected to the rest of the cavern via a near-vertical series of ramps. A couple of dwarfs had just arrived to haul it off to the refuse stockpile.

What had killed it? Beasties in the dark?

I checked the combat reports, and there were only two lines for the FB: Something impacting its upper body, and then its lower body getting taking some other impact. Nothing else. No combat reports for other cavern dwellers, and none in view. No combat reports for any dwarf.

I spend time time checking the kill lists of any dwarf that was working nearby (this was very, very far from my main workshop/stockpile areas; just a few haulers, miners, and well-drinkers), and the FB didn't show up for anyone.

Any ideas on what may have happened to Salt Man?

[Schizotek]

Well.....was "salt man", known from here on out as Lot, in a blacked out area of the caverns? Or was Lot on the edge of one? Cuz I'm almost halfway sure you don't see reports from critters on blacked out zones. Offscreen blowgunner?

[Sphalerite]

Salt is incredibly fragile in DF, and creatures made of salt tend to die on the first impact.

Creatures with undirected deadly dust attacks tend to blast themselves into walls.

It probably triggered its undirected dust attack, blasted itself into a wall, and died.

[Stoup]

Salt is incredibly fragile in DF, and creatures made of salt tend to die on the first impact.

Creatures with undirected deadly dust attacks tend to blast themselves into walls.

It probably triggered its undirected dust attack, blasted itself into a wall, and died.

"Achoo!"
Salt humanoid forgotten beast has blown apart after colliding with an obstacle!

[Raphite1]

Old Lot may indeed have passed through a dark area on his way to the well. I like the theory that he dusted himself into a wall and shattered - I remember thinking the last line of the combat report read like he had gotten knocked into an obstacle

Maybe a hidden colony of something-men triggered the blast, and he knocked himself down to the well area.

[Loud Whispers]

Salt is incredibly fragile in DF, and creatures made of salt tend to die on the first impact.

Creatures with undirected deadly dust attacks tend to blast themselves into walls.

It probably triggered its undirected dust attack, blasted itself into a wall, and died.

"Achoo!"
Salt humanoid forgotten beast has blown apart after colliding with an obstacle!

Now we need a pepper forgotten beast...

[wierd]

The game didn't specify what kind of salt the saltman was made of.

He does have deadly dust, so I would presume a less than edible kind... like lead chromate.

What color does the creature description give for good ol lot?

[Raphite1]

I believe he had no color description. He was represented by a white "H".

[kaijyuu]

One of your dwarves got the jump on him, tried to hit him, he dodged, fell, and died.

[runlvlzero]

Probably can test it easily in the arena enough...