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[sadron]

I think these goblin ambushers brought a necromancer with them because I just got a giant incursion of skeletons and crap. My military literally slug its way through our refuse piles XD they must have like 100 kills on them.

EDIT: I think my fort is fucked guys. They just keep reviving. I have no idea what the hell is resurrecting them.

EDIT2: Ah well, !!FUN!! was had.

[Stromko]

Maybe at some point Toady can implement the destruction of body parts if they're raised up and broken down enough. Or just a random chance that they get destroyed any time they're 'killed' again, so that the items don't have to track any additional info such as how many times they've been raised. Or perhaps they can simply become ineligible for necromancy after a few times.

Though it might be fine if there was just more of a delay between raisings, so that you have a chance of dumping them down a pit or something.

[sadron]

I'm just wondering who or what was resurrecting them.

[parlor_tricks]

A necromancer snuck onto your map and was resurrecting people where you couldn't see him.

[sadron]

Yeah. Even with all of our dwarves on the surface running everywhere. I'm not good enough at fortress defense design and stuff to have salvaged that T_T

[UberNube]

Maybe at some point Toady can implement the destruction of body parts if they're raised up and broken down enough. Or just a random chance that they get destroyed any time they're 'killed' again, so that the items don't have to track any additional info such as how many times they've been raised. Or perhaps they can simply become ineligible for necromancy after a few times.

This is an excellent idea. Maybe it could work in a way similar to how slash attacks can sever parts. Any kind of attack against a body part has a chance of simply pulverising that part, and the chance would be much higher for smaller parts. Hammers and other blunt weapons should be the best at this, while spears and whips should be the worst. It could have the same effect as severing a part, but instead of simply cutting it off the part would be removed from the game and replaced by a load of blood splatter. The big difference would be that you could pulverise a part even if it wasn't connected to anything else. This would mean that if you walked into a room full of undead hands, you could reasonably smash them all into a bloody paste with a hammer rather than just being endlessly swarmed by them.

[Nyxalinth]

My one and only Necro visit the guy showed up with some friends, my military destroyed them, he ran off the map before they could be rezzed.

I got off lucky or unlucky, depending on your point of view.

[Supernerd]

Urist McHammerdwarf strikes the Animated Water Buffalo Bone Powder.

[sadron]

Oh dude, I was getting assaulted by finger bones, heads, things that have no actual way of propelling themselves. It was ridiculous.

[Hyndis]

Necromancers are also ambushers. They can sneak around while hidden and cause all kinds of mayhem.

Necromancers are not trap avoid, however. Clever use of cage traps can shut down roving necromancers, unless the cage traps get clogged up with shambling corpses.

[i2amroy]

Maybe at some point Toady can implement the destruction of body parts if they're raised up and broken down enough. Or just a random chance that they get destroyed any time they're 'killed' again, so that the items don't have to track any additional info such as how many times they've been raised. Or perhaps they can simply become ineligible for necromancy after a few times.

It's planned for future versions to have the option to "pulverize" parts so they are unable to be revived, Toady has referred to it several times, though I don't believe that it will be coming in the next version.