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[HavingPhun]

   So I just had an Idea. Alot of the time when people make bastions or whatever you want to call them as the last hope for dwarven kind and seal off the mini fortress the dwarfs eventually go insane. Mostly. So what if we did that on purpose and then sent all the insane beserking dwarfs to the surface to fight monsters and sieges? What do you guys think?

   Do dwarfs calm down after awhile or keep on beserking? If they don't calm down we could cage them up and release them on sieges. Elf sieges... 

[Laserhead]

Provided you could keep them from killing each other, they'd calm down of thirst or starvation eventually, unless they were vampires.

[ledgekindred]

Thing is, they only occasionally go berserk.  I seem to mostly get melancholy or insane rather than berserk.  Melancholy or insane dorfs won't do much of anything to defend themselves, so they'd be easily slain.  Berserk dorfs attack anything they can reach, but they aren't any tougher than regular dorfs, just (more) insane. 

Then you'd have to figure out how to actually get your nutso dorfs in place, since insane dorfs won't follow burrow or squad orders. 

They never do regain their sanity.  An insane dorf is effectively dead dorf walking, one way or another.

[Fishybang]

An insane dorf is effectively dead dorf walking

Then find the necromancer.

[Melzer]

It isn't a good idea. When dwarfs go insane they have 3 options: melancholy, stark raving mad and berserk. Only if they go berserk they're capable to kill things. after a while they die of hunger or thirst.

[therealmarauder]

Alot

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

Provided you could keep them from killing each other, they'd calm down of thirst or starvation eventually, unless they were vampires.

Perform a rite of vampire well in the refuge.

[misko27]

wait a minute, so a insane vampire can be insane forever? how sad. Never really occured to me.

[Thecard]

Alot

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

Thank you.

[ZeroSumHappiness]

wait a minute, so a insane vampire can be insane forever? how sad. Never really occured to me.

New plan?  198 insane vampires locked into individual cells.

[DarkWolfXV]

I always work to catch my berserk dwarves, even i use useless migrants for army of the insane. I lock those poor bastards into a room with some food, and drop in corpses, give them copper weapons and armor, and make some cage traps outside, after few years i probably have few berzerkers for pit fights.

[Jalen]

I have seen melancholy dwarves kick some serious ass. Don't ever try to send inexperienced military dwarves after that sad legendary miner. He will rip them apart. Of course i don't think they will do much against marksman.

[TheDanish]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Any time one of my dorfs goes berserk I find it difficult to "funnel" him in any direction.

My first fort -ever- saw two berserk dorfs.  The first I managed to lock in the dining room, along with another poor individual who, of course, found the entirety of his remaining existence defined by an absence of limbs.

[misko27]

Welcome to the forums. We hope you will enjoy your stay. Heres a elf-leather sock.

I gennerally ignore the insane. The melancholy are confined to their rooms if I can. Berzerkers I try to catch, since cage traps affect them. Mostly though, they spend time beating up children before the police arive with sharp objects and remind them whos the boss.

[DrKillPatient]

Can insanity type be manipulated? For instance, if violence causes a dwarf to go insane, is he/she more likely to go berserk? (If so, grief might cause melancholy more often, and perhaps stark-raving-mad is just a sort of "general" madness?)

[HavingPhun]

Alot

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

Provided you could keep them from killing each other, they'd calm down of thirst or starvation eventually, unless they were vampires.

Perform a rite of vampire well in the refuge.

That made me laugh alot. Oh,therealmaruader I had to tell you that made laugh. I have to stop talking to alot...