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[CyberUrist]

What does this mean? What should I do?

[Niyazov]

What does this mean? What should I do?

Werebeasts are historical figures who were cursed by a god or bitten by a werecreature during worldgen. They are elves, humans, dwarves, goblins or animal people who turn into an animal-like monster during the full moon.

A werebeast attack is like a semimegabeast attack- it is a strong aggressive enemy who will try to get into your fort and kill your dwarves. Some werecreatures are very strong; others are not- it generally depends on the strength of the animal type they derive from. A wereelephant is a terrifying foe; a weremonkey is probably not but still should be treated with caution.

However, it is possible that the phase of the moon will change and it will transform back into a person before it even reaches your fort.

If a dwarf is bitten by a werebeast during the attack hard enough to cause an injury more severe than bruising, it may transform into a werebeast every full moon, leading to !!FUN!!.

[CyberUrist]

Well great, my military is so weak that I use the term 'military' in a loose sense of the word. I think I might be screwed.

[CyberUrist]

It says it is weak and small in it's description, IDK if that helps.

WTF??

[Niyazov]

It says it is weak and small in it's description, IDK if that helps.

WTF??

They are elves, humans, dwarves, goblins or animal people who turn into an animal-like monster during the full moon.

However, it is possible that the phase of the moon will change and it will transform back into a person before it even reaches your fort.

[Garath]

It says it is weak and small in it's description, IDK if that helps.

WTF??

They are elves, humans, dwarves, goblins or animal people who turn into an animal-like monster during the full moon.

However, it is possible that the phase of the moon will change and it will transform back into a person before it even reaches your fort.

and run away

[Tirion]

Fun fact: werebeasts are [TRAPAVOID], but only when in beast form. A were-something feline rushed into my fort, and began wrestling with the dozen war animals pastured near my trade depot. Neither side succeeded in causing serious harm (though a war giant rat has bitten off a few fingers of the creature) until the poor thing transformed back into it's normal form. Right on top of a weapon trap containing 5 serrated steel discs. He regained the missing fingers, and promptly lost a leg, both arms, his guts, and a lung.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Wait, it got a lung cut out? Man, that's an exact trap.

[Garath]

dwarven craftsdwarfship, accept nothing else

[Lordraymond]

Don't you love it when your *Adamantine Great Axe* manages to knock out a chipmunk's left lower back teeth without damaging anything else on its body?

There are plenty stranger injuries in DF which you should question.

[Tirion]

Wait, it got a lung cut out? Man, that's an exact trap.

Well, not cut out, but teared apart. Functionally the same, poor schmuck bled to death in a tick.

[Sus]

Don't you love it when your *Adamantine Great Axe* manages to knock out a chipmunk's left lower back teeth without damaging anything else on its body?

There are plenty stranger injuries in DF which you should question.

Oh, that's nothing compared to a goblin biting your wrestler in the left upper arm. After the wrestler just grabbed the goblin's lower left back teeth with his right lower leg. Try picturing that.