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[Callista]

I plan to add a section to this Wiki article:
Wounds

We've all encountered the issue of having dwarves incapacitated by injury. Sure, you could just arrange an Unfortunate Accident, but maybe the dwarf in question is a military hero, a Starting Seven member, or a member of a dwindling population you're trying to keep alive (ex., starting in a world where dwarves are extinct, so you receive no migrants).

Common problems with injured dwarves:
--Dwarf with no use of his hands (or no hands at all). Cannot work and sends you those annoying cancellation messages.
--Dwarf who moves very slowly because of nerve injury that keeps him from walking.
--Military dwarf who cannot fight well because of an injury, but can still work or train soldiers.
--Dwarf with a long-term syndrome from cave spider bite or similar, causing dizziness and lowering the quality of his work.
--A dwarf with eyes missing or damaged, resulting in blindness.

I'd like a good list of ways to use these dwarves, to put on the wiki page. So how have you employed your injured dwarves?

[Loud Whispers]

--Dwarf with no use of his hands (or no hands at all). Cannot work and sends you those annoying cancellation messages.

Care home. A royal bedroom with access to the finest in dining and entertainment facilities available. Sparring with Dwarven kick/bite/beard fighting practice.

--Dwarf who moves very slowly because of nerve injury that keeps him from walking.

Making rock blocks/Marksdwarf.

--Military dwarf who cannot fight well because of an injury, but can still work or train soldiers.

Teacher.

--Dwarf with a long-term syndrome from cave spider bite or similar, causing dizziness and lowering the quality of his work.

Military close quarters combat fighter / hauler / mason / farmer.

[0cu]

Any ideas what to do with veteran macedwarfs (one of them being legendary), who cannot stand anymore and have to use crutches?

[Tally]

--Dwarf who moves very slowly because of nerve injury that keeps him from walking.

If this dwarf has high skills in an important workshop job (such as smithing), build him a bedroom and dining room with a small (2 or 3 tiles) prepared food and booze stockpile, all next to his workshop, and the bar stockpile next to it (or just upstairs/downstairs from the workshop). Now assign a burrow to all that and assign him to it.

[XXSockXX]

Any ideas what to do with veteran macedwarfs (one of them being legendary), who cannot stand anymore and have to use crutches?

Crutches do wonders, I have had lots of military dwarfs and hunters who continued to function perfectly fine with crutches. They can still equip weapons and shields in addition to the crutch and if they are legendary crutch-walkers (which happens quite fast) they are not slower than any other dwarf.

[Drazinononda]

Any ideas what to do with veteran macedwarfs (one of them being legendary), who cannot stand anymore and have to use crutches?

If he can stand with a crutch (dwarves will never take two crutches to walk on if both legs are injured) then give it to him and put him back to what he was doing before. Either the leg will heal up and he's good as new, or it won't and he'll become a Legendary Crutch-walker and can bash in skulls with either his mace or his crutch.

[katana]

Blind dwarves can be siege operators, but in recent versions, not much else.

[Callista]

Wiki article has been modified. Please add your ideas as well.

[nbp]

Blind dwarves are useful for any task that involves not getting scared because they spot an enemy.  If I had a good way to blind dwarves in a controlled fashion, I'd probably blind a good half dozen of my masons.  I want them building stuff outside above ground, but they're constantly getting spooked and cancel spamming because of wandering zombies and the like.  Those zombies have no path to the dwarves, and so there's zero danger, but they little bastards still panic anyway.

[AutomataKittay]

Common problems with injured dwarves:
--Dwarf with no use of his hands (or no hands at all). Cannot work and sends you those annoying cancellation messages.

Bookkeeper, manager, or really I usually just seal them into their room until they dies, since they can't put on new clothings anymore and goes insane sooner or later ( might've been changed by 34.11, I'm using 34.09 )

--Dwarf who moves very slowly because of nerve injury that keeps him from walking.

Crossbowier, if they're military, I don't really bother to reassign them since they can still work, just moving slowly.

--Military dwarf who cannot fight well because of an injury, but can still work or train soldiers.

If they're skilled or good as a teacher, I forms a teaching squad. Or bring them back into civilian job. This kind of injury almost never happens, though, so I can't really say much. That or I just don't notice it with how messy my military is.

--Dwarf with a long-term syndrome from cave spider bite or similar, causing dizziness and lowering the quality of his work.

Haulers. Almost never get those dwarves, though, they tend to die from attacks or from worse side effect.

--A dwarf with eyes missing or damaged, resulting in blindness.

Haulers or no quality jobs. I've seen some people use them for siege engines, but I've not had many of those dwarves, nor interest in siege engines

[Jetman123]

I generally take any injured veterans who aren't too mangled - as in, they can still hold a weapon and, preferably, move without a crutch, although that's not always a requirement - and assign them to the Captain of the Guard, and keep the squad in reserve as a last line of defense to defend the civilian burrow during a siege. When they're not under siege, I have them patrol the fortress looking for goblin snatchers and kobold thieves, who they have actually managed to catch quite a few of. Really, anti-snatcher patrols are the best way to make use of your battle-scarred veterans I've found.

[Berossus]

Just give them really good, expensive crutches. Like gold or silver, maybe steel.

"You still got both legs? Sucks to be you, ive got this neat golden crutch instead, haha!"

[Findulidas]

Care home. A royal bedroom with access to the finest in dining and entertainment facilities available. Sparring with Dwarven kick/bite/beard fighting practice.

I didnt know dwarves could fight with thier beards. Must be quite a sight.

[fourpotatoes]

If he can stand with a crutch (dwarves will never take two crutches to walk on if both legs are injured) then give it to him and put him back to what he was doing before. Either the leg will heal up and he's good as new, or it won't and he'll become a Legendary Crutch-walker and can bash in skulls with either his mace or his crutch.

This (and an adventure-mode rampage with a stolen crutch) is why I make silver crutches.

--Dwarf with no use of his hands (or no hands at all). Cannot work and sends you those annoying cancellation messages.

The most memorable of these I had was a war hero named Fath Rameral, some time between 31.12 and 31.25, while dwarves equipping clothing was broken. I reduced the cancellation spam by assigning her to a cripple squad (the Theaters of Fighting) with an empty uniform set to replace civilian clothes and giving her a barracks to train in but leaving her squad set to no orders. She'd still spam a bit trying to store owned items, but then she'd go train quietly until she got hungry or thirsty.

Before I realized I could do this, I imagined her telling stories to the children in the legendary dining halls. Once she got back into the military, I envisioned her as a ceremonial guard and sent her deep into the mines to patrol the sacrificial shrine I'd built to a forgotten beast. I put her on duty whenever I was transferring prisoners to the execution room or The Pit. She probably wouldn't have been able to stop a breakout on her own, but she'd have delayed an escape and protected civilians while the militia piled out of Fortress Security.

(If you're not averse to modding, temporarily giving mouths [GRASP] will also solve this problem. It'll also make goblins show up chewing on extra shields.)

[Baijiu]

One of my ladydwarf soldiers had her hands sliced off in combat. Took me a while to figure out where the job cancellation spam was coming from but still, even though I was annoyed I tried to take are of her. Assigned her some small quarters but she preferred to hang out in the meeting hall and bother everyone by leaving food to rot everywhere.

Eventually my patience wore out and built what I thought was an adequately deep drop pit and assigned her to pull the lever that would drop her to her death. She pulled, fell, and broke both her legs and crawled around in a tiny pit until she died of thirst.

I bet her screams were loud enough so everyone knew but no one seemed to care.

I felt so bad.