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[WDDworf]

I was looking through the legends to explain a few strange figures from dwarf mode:
- Olm man vampire leading Humans (peace)
- Goblin leading Dwarves (peace)
- Elf & Goblin leading Goblins (war)
- No elves nearby left
- Some human Favane getting 99% of all engravings

Looking in the records of the Dwarven settlement nearby, which housed the last Dwarven citizens (around 400-500 they went missing).
It makes no notion of actual wars/fights with goblins, but from one year to another only Goblins started to assume positions.
There were quite a lot of abductions, which also explained the Elf at the Goblins. (didn't research that further, but I expect the Elves to be obliterated around my area)

Is it possible for the Dwarves and Goblins to just intermingle, having the Dwarves die of old age?
The Goblin liaison of the Dwarves is from year 0 and the last Dwarven baron died of old age around 436 (world is at 1050)

The Humans seemed to be led by different animal species, also being vampires at around their 60th. Before the olm man vampire there was a cave fish woman vampire, who defeated a regular Human vampire to get there.

Maybe I am missing important legends information.. I did get normal migrant waves with 2 vampires total (208 population now - 30-40 normal births)
Perhaps they are all from nearby groups?  (The Favane guy also came from a "Group of Beasts")

If it is relevant, I am near/at the arctic.

[Bearskie]

Regarding armor sizes, would it be possible for a werebeast to wear large armor (ie from humans) since most of them outgrow their dwarf armor size when transforming?

[Magistrum]

Sadly werebeasts are not fortress citizens when transformed and don't wear any armor when transformed as that would require using a military outfit.

[greycat]

So can you not butcher dead animals, I've tried to butcher recently starved/killed weasels, cows, horses, dogs, and yaks, but I've always gotten a error that there isn't an unrotten carcase nearby.

I know this is a late reply, and I know this question comes up all the freakin' time, but I was disappointed not to see a correct answer to this iteration of it.

There are two different jobs that can take place in a Butcher Shop: butchering and slaughtering.

Butchering is when you take an animal corpse and chop it into meat and bones and skin and stuff.  Butchering takes a while.  You can only butcher a corpse if all of the following are true:

• The animal was wild (the corpse must not say "Stray").
  
• The animal was not sentient (no butchering elves or goblins or humans).
• The animal was large enough (I don't know the exact cut-off point).

Butchering does not require a refuse stockpile.  The previous answer stating that corpses must be brought to a refuse stockpile before they can be butchered was wrong.  The only thing that matters is proximity.  Dump (and reclaim) the corpse near the Butcher Shop, or build a new Butcher Shop near the corpse.

Slaughtering is when you take a live animal to the Butcher Shop and chop it into meat and bones and skin and stuff.  Slaughtering is instantaneous.  You can only slaughter an animal that is not wild (doesn't have to be all the way domesticated -- any partial taming is enough).

If a non-wild animal dies of starvation, injury, old age, or any other cause that wasn't slaughtering, you can't butcher it.  Ever.  It's just a useless hunk of waste material.  You can atom-smash it, or dump it in magma.  That's it.

[Badger Storm]

When you gen a world, is it normal for the map to "bounce" slightly onscreen at the beginning and end of the history part of worldgen?  (i.e. the time between year 0 and the year you stop) 

[pisskop]

My maps tend to pull southeast   Is it accompanied by actual issues?

[Badger Storm]

As far as I can tell, no.

[faloxx]

So in 40.19 I tried going to a fort I had created myself (and retired afterwards) with my character in adventure mode, but everytime I come near the boundaries of my fort the game just crashes. I tried fast travelling and just plain walking there but it crashes anyway. Is this a bug or would there be something else wrong?

Edit: Well nevermind this question. After loading up a backup I made in fortress mode and retiring the fort again, the game no longer crashes when I neared the fort. So it was indeed a bug.

[Bearskie]

Alright how about this - are GCS'es tameable? Apparently I've read many accounts of players with tame GCS'es, but the wiki page notes it as "Not trainable".

[Bumber]

Alright how about this - are GCS'es tameable? Apparently I've read many accounts of players with tame GCS'es, but the wiki page notes it as "Not trainable".

Tameable but not trainable. That is, you can't have hunting/war GCSs.

[Bearskie]

Ah. Understood.

This is gonna be so awesome (Unless said GCS reverts into a wild state midway in my dining hall).

[Badger Storm]

Ah. Understood.

This is gonna be so awesome (Especially if said GCS reverts into a wild state midway in my dining hall).

Fixed that for you.

[pisskop]

Ah. Understood.

This is gonna be so awesome (Especially when said GCS reverts into a wild state midway in my dining hall).

Fixed that for you.

FTFFY

[Badger Storm]

Question about wild animal populations.

If I have a pack of animals enter the map, mill around for however long, then leave the map, will that count against the allotted population number, meaning I have x fewer animals in my local population?  As an example, say I had 42 giant parakeets on my map.  If seven flocks of six came onto the map, one flock at a time, then all left without a single one getting killed or trapped, would that count as extinction, meaning no more giant parakeets, or would they eventually come back or regenerate?

[pisskop]

killing them reduces their regional numbers.  idk about taming one or two.  them leaving does not