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[camz123]

My most recent (vampire) adventurer recently got punched in the heart by a bogey man and in his injuries list his heart is shown as cyan. Would functionality loss in the heart be fatal in a non undead adventurer or is it just a minor nusciance for a normal character?

[Eric Blank]

I believe it shows as a mortal wound, but as long as the heart isn't damaged in such a way that it is spewing blood, there's no permanent health risk and it will be in decent shape again once you sleep/wait/travel.

[Broken]

The heart is a completely non-vital organ that just happens to bleed a lot if injuried (something like a spleen in reality). I once saw a
dwarf whose heart was surgically removed survive.

[NRDL]

I love this game.

The surgery system could use more manual controls though. 

[Cassandra]

Heck, if you happen to be a thrall, you can have your heart ripped apart with a battle-axe, and bleed out, and not care.

[Dyret]

Function loss of the Heart should be a song.

[miauw62]

Yup, the only vital are gans are the brain, the lungs (you can survive on one) and the upper (and middle?) spine. I tested it out with a syndrome that caused the hart to cease function.

[Scow2]

I wonder if adventurer heart non-criticalness has something to do with the player controlling the adventurer...

[miauw62]

No, if your dwarves have their heart stop working they wont suffer either.

[Funk]

miauw62:
the spine in of its self is not vital , only its nerve tissue is need for your lungs to work.
 

[miauw62]

That makes it vital enough for me. The lungs arent vital either, they are just needed to get oxygen to your cells.

[Gaybarowner]

beaiting people down with your heart!

[Argonnek]

beaiting people down with your heart!

I suppose it's as sensible as beating a man to death with a spool of thread (which I totally did once. Took forever.).

[Scow2]

That makes it vital enough for me. The lungs arent vital either, they are just needed to get oxygen to your cells.

While that might be true in real life, in Dwarf Fortress, you need lungs or else the character Suffocates to death.
However, in Dwarf Fortress, you can [theoretically] have the spine get smashed open/torn out without it automatically destroying the nerves. If your bones are missing but nerves are intact, you're good to go.

[Starver]

Function loss of the Heart should be a song.

Spoiler: Wot, you mean /something/ like... (click to show/hide)

Strike them down... every now and then I get a little enemy that I can't sneak around,
Strike them down... every now and then I get a little stone a-whistling to their brain through their ears,
Strike them down... every now and then I wield two little scourges to stop the goblin general go by,
Strike them down... every now and then I get a body that has died and then has gone and been zombified,
Strike them down... every now and then I hit and they fall apart,
Strike them down... every now and then I hit and they fall apart.

[...]

And I need campfires at night,
And I need to not pull levers,
And as you strangle tight,
I'll be westling you forever,
And we'll only continue our fight,
'Cos we're both just as strong as each other,
We can take it to the edge of a rise,
Your hold is set upon me as firm as a vice,
I can't tell what to do as the world it turns to dark,
I've got you by your lower leg and on your neck I park,
I need to kill you tinight,
The bother's gonna start tonight,
The bother's gonna start tonight.

Once upon a time I was felling my foes,
But now I'm only falling apart,
There's nothing I can do,
With functional loss of the heart.
Once upon a time there were bolts and a knife,
But now there's only bits from a shark,
Nothing I can wield,
With a functional loss of the heart.

[...]

(With apologies to Urist McTyler.  It needs an awful lot of cleaning up and narrative transitioning... )