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[Sirbug]

After skirmish with "Deadly dust" forgotten beast my lovely fort may now see its end.

I get reports from all across the fortress, dorfs get paralyzed and die from suffocation. Is there anything I can do to survive?

[Chaia]

Check dwarves which are coated in dust and burrow them somewhere, where they can't reach the other dwarves. Try to avoid any contaminated thing with your dwarves at any cost, maybe you are able to start a new fort in this map with your clean dwarves

[Sirbug]

I don't think checking all dorfs with coating was humanly possible, but I think I've managed to stop spreading by dumping everything around battlefield and those who died from suffocation into magma.

UPD: Spoke too soon - here we die again.

[Garath]

most likely some items got coated with the dust. If your dorfs don't have gloves or mittens or something, they get infected when they pick the item up to dump it. Most likely the gear from your dead militia was covered in the stuff, as were they. Make mittens and gloves, your civilians will pick them up and prevent infection (I hope this is the problem. It's one of the problems I know of).

To purify objects either wash them off with water, destroy them or put them in a safe place

[Sirbug]

I had to abandon the fort after all, my attempt at quarantine failed. I nobody of my haulers get infected, they all wore gloves, as I bought lots of cloth and made lots of clothing. Problem is that they put contaminated clothes on themselves. Also, there seem to be contaminated ground. I wouldn't be surprised if food was infected as well, considering how many dorfs died while eating.

I couldn't find anyone with coating of dust, like Chaia suggested, but likely they all instantly dropped dead.

[jcochran]

In the future, you might want to construct a "bathtub" that the dwarves path through while going into and out of the main part of the fortress.

[Sirbug]

I guess I should.

By now I can only giggle imagining some unfortunate soul to waltz into my fortress and put on contaminated shirt. Shame, it won't actually happen.

[Raphite1]

They need shoes or socks or boots or some other foot covering, or they'll be affected by the poison every time they walk over a covered tile.

I think I've heard that the game doesn't model hands actually touching hauled objects, so gloves don't matter nearly as much as shoes.

[Baijiu]

Or use dfhack and use the cleanall command. Problem solved.

[Uggh]

By now I can only giggle imagining some unfortunate soul to waltz into my fortress and put on contaminated shirt. Shame, it won't actually happen.

Why not? Visit your fort in adventure mode and see...