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[The Axiom]

A friend asked the question (completely unrelated to DF but hey) and it got me wondering. In your opinion what is the single most dangerous and fear inducing creature in the current build of DF?

[Hurize]

A friend asked the question (completely unrelated to DF but hey) and it got me wondering. In your opinion what is the single most dangerous and fear inducing creature in the current build of DF?

Were-Hoary Marmots....

[GreatWyrmGold]

Dwarves.

Followed by thralls, inorganic clowns with syndromes, inorganic titans and FBs with syndromes, bogeymen, inorganic clowns, inorganic titans and FBs, bronze colossi, dragons, organic titans and FBs with syndromes, necromancers, most other megabeasts in some order, goblins, giant badgers, semimegabeasts, elephants and other massive animals, badger men vampires, badgers, hooved animals, thieving birds, etc, in roughly that order. I probably left some out, but that's the general idea.

Zombies were left out on purpose--the zombifier is the dangerous bit.

[Mapleguy555]

Crundles.

Search it up on the urban dictionary.
I'll leave this ocean of brain magma for you...

[Loud Whispers]

A friend asked the question (completely unrelated to DF but hey) and it got me wondering. In your opinion what is the single most dangerous and fear inducing creature in the current build of DF?

Whichever;

• Is most numerous
• Is most horrific
• Flies
• All of the above
• Ravens

[Splint]

I personally hate things with hooves, crundles, fliers in general.

Hooves - Speaks for itself.
Crundles - They KEEP CLOGGING MY DAMN CAGE TRAPS. I Set those up for real animals, not an annoying bitey pieces of toothy taintskin.
Fliers -  They'll either flat murderize your people or suck away FOS worse than an army of land animals with thier pathing when they come in groups of 5 or bigger.

[MoonLightBird]

I hate hooves! Had a were-camel take out a few dozen workers before my axe lord, who was 10 tiles away, could get to him.

[Starver]

edit: Oy!  I was just editing and it posted!  Must have hit a hot-key combo...

Whichever;

• Is most numerous Possibly fluffy wamblers
  
• Is most horrific Possibly fluffy wamblers
  
• Flies Something fluffy wamblers are famous for doing (aided)
  
• All of the above So, yes...
  
• Ravens No, it must be bunnies! fluffy wamblers!
  

[Supernerd]

A murderous ghost that you cannot memorialize for some reason. It'll just periodically kill off your dwarves and there's nothing you can do about it until the ghost dies of old age.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Murderous, immemoriable, vampiric or necromantic ghosts. My list contains more common foes, though.

[Talvieno]

Hooves themselves aren't actually lethal, contrary to what you might expect. Giving dwarves hooves, for example, doesn't make them any deadlier than their non-hooved counterparts in melee combat. What cows, horses, yaks and camels have going for them is their size. A cow, in case you've never looked, is exactly ten times the weight of a dwarf. Assuming the average human body weight to be roughly (very roughly) around 150 lbs, and a dwarf to be 6/7 the weight of a human, what this comes out to is a 1300 pound cow. This is actually a lot more than real-life cows, which weigh anywhere from 600 to 1000 pounds. Dwarf Fortress cows are huge.

With that in mind, I'd say whatever's biggest.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Moist hooved animals are big. The hooves sure don't hurt, though. They're hard, that's gotta count for something.

[Talvieno]

Try cloning cows and removing the hooves from one, and running a few arena tests where the two types fight each other. Hooved cows won't have much of an advantage. I actually ran this test myself, and was surprised with the results.

[misko27]

Giant badger thralls, giant capybara Thralls,

BEWARE THE UNDEAD SPONGE! IT IS TRULY UNSTOPABLE!

[GreatWyrmGold]

Even cat thralls are scary.

Not the least because they still carry the thrallifying stuff on their hide...[shudder]