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[athenalras]

Not sure if this has already been reported. Things are collapsing on the surface almost all the time. It's already killed 2 dwarves, a merchant, and a couple of animals. In addition, the trees seem to demolish my surface buildings at leisure. These trees are more deadly than goblins methinks.

Now I'm not sure if its actually falling tree branches or something but I'm pretty sure these occurrences are objects falling from trees. If this is, in fact, an issue, has Toady addressed this? I'd like to know if I have to turn off physics when I play from now on because trees keep hurting every living creature that is not a tree.

Or maybe this is one of Toady's new factions in progress: the passive-aggressive paraplegic ents.
 

[athenalras]

I forgot to mention, this is 0.40.04 of Dwarf Fortress that I'm playing. I have no clue whether people are experience similar issues in earlier 0.40.xx versions.

[athenalras]

Ah, a short anecdote from my game:

Elves came to trade. They had suck-y goods. I bought some cranberries. Elves left. Things collapse on the surface. 1 elf is dead. A great horned owl was crushed. Okay.

Fast forward a few months. I'm building a 3 story building. There's a tall "scaffolding" on the side. Things collapse on the surface. Destroys half of my building and the scaffolding which had a dwarf on it. Dwarf suffers broken legs.

Next month (or sometime later), things collapse again. Dwarf fishing got knocked into lake. Attacked by a pack of crocodiles. Dies.

I forgot to mention, some of the caravan animals became 'stark raving mad' after being struck. And the merchants either become incapacitated or berserk.

And I just checked, there's an elf merchant and his yak stuck up my tree all mad. They aren't getting down.

Dwarf who suffered broken legs died in the hospital from dehydration. Lol, noob mistake there. But I'm still blaming the trees for causing this to happen.

[Melting Sky]

Trees are all sorts of gory fun. Respect their ferocity or die.

[thvaz]

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[Starwing]

Its the work of Armok. You should be grateful.

Don't believe me?

Check this screenshot of my adventurer who walked into forest retreat where tree suddenly collapsed because Armok hates these tree hugging hippies (Hint: check log).

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[arbarbonif]

Why do you think the elves try to get you to stop chopping trees?  They don't want to make them mad.  They don't love the trees, they are terrified of them.  The trees!!!!!!

[Lord_lemonpie]

there's an elf merchant and his yak stuck up my tree all mad. They aren't getting down.

Sigged

[Iamblichos]

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This won my interwebs today.

[athenalras]

Also, if Toady reads this, please take note that trees are growing too fast now in 0.40.04.

It's like a bad horror movie. I cut one tree down, 3 more spring up in its place. Not only that, they're crushing and engulfing most of my outdoor structures like a post-apocalyptic scene. They're growing WAY too fast.

[Xazo-Tak]

Also, if Toady reads this, please take note that trees are growing too fast now in 0.40.04.

It's like a bad horror movie. I cut one tree down, 3 more spring up in its place. Not only that, they're crushing and engulfing most of my outdoor structures like a post-apocalyptic scene. They're growing WAY too fast.

I like that description.
Decrease the default, have a variable in advanced worldgen.

[Keldane]

I noticed trees doing this the other night. I couldn't find a bug report about it on the tracker, so I made one. I also made one for cutting trees down causing nearby constructed floors to cease to exist.

With that said, I happened to have a tree grow right near my wagon as my thirsty dwarves were gathering near the pack animals. About seven combat reports, mostly consisting of logs being deflected by clothing, followed by a horse up a tree. I'm pretty sure this isn't what they signed up for.

[Pirate Bob]

It's the elves finally taking their revenge on us for chopping down all those trees.  Their weapons and armor are worthless, so they just convinced all the trees to commit suicide and take out as many dwarves as possible  .

On a serious note, does this happen completely at random, or just when you dig up the roots?  I haven't tried 40.04 yet, but in 40.03 trees would collapse if you dug up the roots on the Z level below.  If this is the case, you might be able to avoid treemurder by chopping down the trees before mining underneath them.

Either that, or just dedicate your fort to chopping down all trees, all the time.  Kill all the trees.  And the elves.  Elves make the trees grow faster.

[Keldane]

The problem is that this happens when the trees grow from saplings, at least in my experience. Saplings explode in a burst of logs, leaving behind a tree.

[King Mir]

I've had trees collapse on their own in dwarf mode. With no one around.