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[Aslandus]

Old age? Nonsense! You must search high and low for the cause of this "peacefully" and cover it in magma! It is the dwarven way!

[NoobKid]

Take random dwarves into "interrogation rooms" with magma and a black guy.

[§k]

How old is your world and your fort? Since the initial turkey just died, it shouldn't be an old fort.

I've never have a dwarf living long enough to die of old age.

[Garath]

with the 'new' way of mostly historical figures as migrants, some would arrive at a ripe old age and die a few years later at your fort. It really pissed me off one time when I got a highly skilled weapon smith as a migrant who dropped dead a year or two later.

[PatrikLundell]

I've reached my 6:th winter now, so the death occurred at the 5 year mark. Sorting the dwarves in age order in Dwarf Therapist shows there are a few dwarves eligible for spontaneous croaking. The world is the standard 250 years old. The dead one has been replaced by a baby, so I'm back at the full count (I think) of 220. It's a fair number of years until any of the children grow up, however (one has grown up, but that's it for a while).

[kevinfragger2427]

Hee hee, yeah. It's so weird how the game calculates age on a yearly basis, so now I've suddenly got sections of my population kneeling over at the arrival of spring. Kinda makes it a bit depressing, considering spring is usually celebrated for giving birth to new lift.

But death comes before birth. Only in Dwarf Fortress.

[Garath]

spring is coming, oh no, prepare the coffins!

[Stormfeather]

Certainly gives a new meaning to "spring cleaning."