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[JoshBrickstien]

Title says it all, really. What the hell killed it? It was sitting in the middle of the new dormitories under construction, dead. Combat logs says it was killed by rock salt, but it couldn't have been mined above, I had finished that hours before. There's also way more orcks on that one tile than there should be. Not that I really mind that an immigrant orphan died... But why?

Edit: Of note, the cause of death was suffocation, if that helps at all. I assume a crushed lung.

[TruePikachu]

Are there bridges anywhere? Were there tantrums? Was that particular tile mined "hours ago"? Was it from above _there_?

EDIT: Dump designation and zone? Are the rocks forbidden?

[JoshBrickstien]

Are there bridges anywhere? Were there tantrums? Was that particular tile mined "hours ago"? Was it from above _there_?

EDIT: Dump designation and zone? Are the rocks forbidden?

No bridges, no tantrums, the dorms are 2 z levels high, the top level had been gone for an hour of play or more, and it's just barely under the soil layer, so no, it's not _there_. Also no dump zones or forbidden rocks.

[itg]

Sounds like a deconstruction accident. Were you deconstructing anything in the area?

[Anathe]

Armok has shown his displeasure.

[AutomataKittay]

Mysterious pile of rock, was there deconstruction recently? There're a bug in latest version that teleport an area of loose material onto the dwarf when they deconstructs floor or wall, it won't crush dwarves, though.

As for children dead by rock, it's gotta fall onto the child, it can take a while for them to die of suffocation, but from sound of it, they got dropped.

Was there any deconstruction going on? They could've stupidly stand over the tile they're deconstructing and fell from there.

[Larix]

Check the combat report and then 'zoom to location'. Chances are pretty good that the place you found the corpse isn't the place where the child died: inexplicable massive heaps of items in one place are the telltale sign of "deconstruction teleportation": http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5994

This bug affects _all_ loose items, including e.g. corpses of dwarven children lying in the area. It's not only possible but even likely that the child was killed by a dumped rock, by a cave-in or by a deconstructed-from-below staircase falling in its face somewhere nearby, and later deconstruction dragged the corpse into the location where you found it sitting under a heap of rocks. The actual location of the 'combat' and death might give better hints as to what really happened.

[Niyazov]

Title says it all, really. What the hell killed it? It was sitting in the middle of the new dormitories under construction, dead. Combat logs says it was killed by rock salt, but it couldn't have been mined above, I had finished that hours before. There's also way more orcks on that one tile than there should be. Not that I really mind that an immigrant orphan died... But why?

Edit: Of note, the cause of death was suffocation, if that helps at all. I assume a crushed lung.

could there be a minecart misadventure involved? or are you using catapults anywhere? could a cat stone reaching max range and then falling multiple z levels cause injury, even though they aren't normally dangerous to dwarves?

[JoshBrickstien]

Check the combat report and then 'zoom to location'. Chances are pretty good that the place you found the corpse isn't the place where the child died: inexplicable massive heaps of items in one place are the telltale sign of "deconstruction teleportation": http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5994

This bug affects _all_ loose items, including e.g. corpses of dwarven children lying in the area. It's not only possible but even likely that the child was killed by a dumped rock, by a cave-in or by a deconstructed-from-below staircase falling in its face somewhere nearby, and later deconstruction dragged the corpse into the location where you found it sitting under a heap of rocks. The actual location of the 'combat' and death might give better hints as to what really happened.

This seems most likely, as there was a bit of wooden scaffolding I'd used nearby that I ordered destroyed. Perhaps the child tried to destroy it and got pelted by flying rocks. Otherwise, there are no bridges, catapults, minecarts, tantrums, wheelbarrows, etc.

[TruePikachu]

I actually forgot about that bug. I've patched it out of my install...

[Rocktomato]

I think this is probably the only forum on the internet where a person can say "Not that I really mind that an immigrant orphan died" and nobody will bat an eye.

[enolate]

I think this is probably the only forum on the internet where a person can say "Not that I really mind that an immigrant orphan died" and nobody will bat an eye.

Stormfront

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

I think this is probably the only forum on the internet where a person can say "Not that I really mind that an immigrant orphan died" and nobody will bat an eye.

This should be bay12's tagline or something.

[GiglameshDespair]

Sounds just like every friday.

[ORCACommander]

what i think of is that you had a cave in on a floor above and it cascaded down to where the child was