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Kaos

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[40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« on: July 09, 2014, 09:42:18 pm »
I embarked with a bunch of animals and they get random panic attacks and when I "V"iew them it says "experiencing mortal fear", any clue to what does it mean?
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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2014, 09:49:21 pm »
It means the morale system needs some tweaking  ;)

But really, something (probably unintended) is frighting the animals into a state of maximum panic. This is pretty common for everything right now.
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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2014, 09:50:34 pm »
Animals in my pastures used to kick the hell out of each other to the point of breaking all their limbs, so maybe they're going to START combat with each other, and then they get scared of the combat that hasn't happened, then run away from each other.
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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2014, 03:32:02 pm »
In adventurer mode, I unretired my adventurer who experienced mortal fear of his own shadow (there were no other creatures anywhere), causing him to disobey my commands by pulling out his weapon and fall from a cliff.
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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2014, 02:00:15 am »
This seems like a serious issue, I shall have to add [No Fear] to everything.
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Kaos

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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2014, 08:03:29 pm »
it's still present in [40.02] but seems to be a feature... It seems that now creatures get scared off by wild creatures and get that status, in my forts I've figured that it was flyng creatures that were scaring my animals...
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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2014, 08:06:00 pm »
You can fix it by adding NOFEAR to your livestock species. But it is a feature because animals often scare each other even in real life.
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Kaos

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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2014, 11:36:44 pm »
Actually it makes sense... I got a kobold thief.... and instead of beelining to the closest map border he started runing around the forest scared, climbing trees, trying to hide... my recruit was able to reach him and hack his head this way... in older versions it would have been impossible the kobold would have outrun him by far...
« Last Edit: July 14, 2014, 11:41:07 pm by Kaos »
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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2014, 11:48:08 pm »
You might want to check out this mod: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=140460.0
Among the changes is adding NATURAL_SKILL_DISCIPLINE:1 to all civilized creatures, predators, trainable creatures, etc.
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Quote from: NonconsensualSurgery on March 26, 2012, 09:11:55 pm
They're nearly as bad as badgers. Build a couple of anti-buzzard SAM sites marksdwarf towers and your fortress will look like Baghdad in 2003 from all the aerial bolt spam. You waste a lot of ammo and everything is covered in unslightly exploded buzzard bits and broken bolts.

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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2014, 02:44:31 pm »
Playing 40.13 now. I have a dwarven child, a lone survivor (out of a fort of 200). He is stuck outside the fort. The goblins, trolls, demons, and forgotten beasts are inside (along with all the rotting corpses). He is very unhappy, and: "Reg Ginetonul, Dwarven Child cancels Sleep: Mortally Afraid". He must be having a blast.
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Re: [40.01] Creatures experiencing mortal fear
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2014, 03:18:54 pm »
Quote from: maxcat61 on November 01, 2014, 02:44:31 pm
Playing 40.13 now. I have a dwarven child, a lone survivor (out of a fort of 200). He is stuck outside the fort. The goblins, trolls, demons, and forgotten beasts are inside (along with all the rotting corpses). He is very unhappy, and: "Reg Ginetonul, Dwarven Child cancels Sleep: Mortally Afraid". He must be having a blast.

... if you managed to keep that child alive and restart the fort... that will be freaking impressive. 
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