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[Noodz]

So i have a nice pretty embark with lots with cool stuff and biomes. Most of it is terrifying tropical shrubland, but it's not naturally zombifying, all giant thrips and mosquitoes spawn alive, and so far i managed to safely butcher stuff. It does rains human blood though, but my starting 7 can suck it up until i manage to secure the area.

Or so i thought. It turns out that after a couple of months, EVERYONE, including all farm animals, became undead, represented by @ flashing Ñ. It all happened instantaneously, so i didn't have a chance to analyze what was going on before the game over screen. However, i never saw that blood rain could zombify before.

Any precedents on this?

[DavionFuxa]

Human Blood is just Human Blood.

Was there an Evil Cloud of some sort that could have 'husked' everything that you might have saw?

[Noodz]

Nope, nothing. And even if there was some evil cloud, i could probably see it coming. What happened in this case is that everyone just turned into zombies where they were standing, all at the same time, in two occasions.

I do use a cornucopia of raw mods, one of which is that i made blood EDIBLE_COOKED. I wonder if that is somehow related.

I will try to play once again, but now i will try to spare some dwarves by digging down as soon as i spawn, to avoid them getting covered with blood.

[Friendstrange]

If you use mods thats probably it.

But what you are describing sounds like evil cloud behavior. It could also be that the dwarfs died to something and were instantly revived.

Ive seen evil ocean beaches that reanimate dead bodies the second they stop having a heartbeat.

[SRD]

If you use mods thats probably it.

But what you are describing sounds like evil cloud behavior. It could also be that the dwarfs died to something and were instantly revived.

Ive seen evil ocean beaches that reanimate dead bodies the second they stop having a heartbeat.

Does that re-animate re-animated parts/bodies?

[Azated]

If you use mods thats probably it.

But what you are describing sounds like evil cloud behavior. It could also be that the dwarfs died to something and were instantly revived.

Ive seen evil ocean beaches that reanimate dead bodies the second they stop having a heartbeat.

Does that re-animate re-animated parts/bodies?

All evil biomes do. I often cut my enemies up so much that I have an army of fingers and toes beating my dwarves up. I've got to say, that would not be a pleasant sight.

[Broken]

If you use mods thats probably it.

But what you are describing sounds like evil cloud behavior. It could also be that the dwarfs died to something and were instantly revived.

Ive seen evil ocean beaches that reanimate dead bodies the second they stop having a heartbeat.

Does that re-animate re-animated parts/bodies?

All evil biomes do. I often cut my enemies up so much that I have an army of fingers and toes beating my dwarves up. I've got to say, that would not be a pleasant sight.

No, not all of them do. An evil biome can have evil rain, evil clouds or reanimation, and conbinations of those. Reanimation is not always
present.

[Sutremaine]

Evil biomes can also have normal weather. If it's raining while an evil cloud is on the site, the ground gets covered in scattered piles of cloud material. This can be a problem in areas of thrall-producing clouds.

[Bralbaard]

So i have a nice pretty embark with lots with cool stuff and biomes. Most of it is terrifying tropical shrubland, but it's not naturally zombifying, all giant thrips and mosquitoes spawn alive, and so far i managed to safely butcher stuff. It does rains human blood though, but my starting 7 can suck it up until i manage to secure the area.

Or so i thought. It turns out that after a couple of months, EVERYONE, including all farm animals, became undead, represented by @ flashing Ñ. It all happened instantaneously, so i didn't have a chance to analyze what was going on before the game over screen. However, i never saw that blood rain could zombify before.

Any precedents on this?

Had this once, in one of the first DF versions that had evil weather. It happened in a (unmodded, with original raws) world that I had already played a couple of fortresses in, the delay was not a couple of months like in your case, but a couple of days, and I think it was raining some kind of sludge instead of blood. all other details sound the same, it also happened when I started new fortresses in other evil regions in that world, I guess the world somehow got corrupted.