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[Shakkara]

I've had some dwarfs disappearing without a trace and have been reloading an autosave to figure out what is going on.

So far nothing strange I thought, but then I noticed this goose slowly crawling into my fortress, and it's spreading worms and ticks everywhere (they spawn in tiles the goose walks over and sometimes crawl in front of it too). The goose has been a long time pet. I did have a visit from a werebeast thing lately but so far none of my dwarves seem infected.

What is this thing? A werebeastzombiegooseofdoom?

Can't easily get rid of it, because it is a pet.

[Button]

Nah, fowl do that normally now.

[Talvieno]

Welcome to Dwarf Fortress, the only game where you can say, "My civilization was destroyed because a goose initiated a tantrum spiral that started a civil war that started an apocalypse."

Not really, but it's fun to say anyway.

So is Goose of Doom.

[NullForceOmega]

Since .34 and the introduction of interactions, several animals now have a 'rooting' action that disturbs vermin.  In both fortress and adventure mode they use this action incessantly, resulting in the numerous vermin you have described here, if you want it to stop, you have to alter the RAWs for that interaction.

[Talvieno]

It doesn't really harm anything, though. It won't hurt to leave it in.

[King Mir]

You might want to keep dwarves that hate vermin away from you fowl however. But the bugs are otherwise harmless.

[GenericOverusedName]

Ah, I was wondering why my peahens were suddenly surrounded by worms and the like. That's pretty interesting. Do the poultry eat / interact with the vermin yet, or are they just kicking up dirt for fun?

[Talvieno]

Ah, I was wondering why my peahens were suddenly surrounded by worms and the like. That's pretty interesting. Do the poultry eat / interact with the vermin yet, or are they just kicking up dirt for fun?

Kicking up dirt for fun, mostly. They don't actually "need" to eat.

[IndigoFenix]

If you give them the GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS tag, they will eat vermin they step on that have the correct class (without leaving remains, unlike cats).  If they are vermin hunters, they will chase them down too.

[Talvieno]

If you give them the GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS tag, they will eat vermin they step on that have the correct class (without leaving remains, unlike cats).  If they are vermin hunters, they will chase them down too.

True, but it's not technically "eating", though - they're just disappearing. Perhaps I should've been clearer. +1, in any case.

[IndigoFenix]

If you give them the GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS tag, they will eat vermin they step on that have the correct class (without leaving remains, unlike cats).  If they are vermin hunters, they will chase them down too.

True, but it's not technically "eating", though - they're just disappearing. Perhaps I should've been clearer. +1, in any case.

It is eating, actually - if the animals speak and therefore need to eat, it will replenish their hunger, and if the vermin's main material contains an ingestable syndrome, the creature will be affected by it.  Most creatures don't need to eat to survive, but they still can eat.

[Talvieno]

If you give them the GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS tag, they will eat vermin they step on that have the correct class (without leaving remains, unlike cats).  If they are vermin hunters, they will chase them down too.

True, but it's not technically "eating", though - they're just disappearing. Perhaps I should've been clearer. +1, in any case.

It is eating, actually - if the animals speak and therefore need to eat, it will replenish their hunger, and if the vermin's main material contains an ingestable syndrome, the creature will be affected by it.  Most creatures don't need to eat to survive, but they still can eat.

Huh, nice. Learn something new every day.

[Loud Whispers]

Can't easily get rid of it, because it is a pet.

Pasture the goose next to a cat. The cat'll kill whatever the goose disturbs.

[Urist McVoyager]

While that's the best solution for those who don't want to mod the raws, the results are subpar compared to just adding GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS, since you'll have an overwhelming number of vermin corpses to dispose of.

[Talvieno]

While that's the best solution for those who don't want to mod the raws, the results are subpar compared to just adding GOBBLE_VERMIN_CLASS, since you'll have an overwhelming number of vermin corpses to dispose of.

Nah, just pasture it aboveground in a little walled-off area. Nobody will care, so long as you don't have it set for the dwarves to move outside refuse.