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Sutremaine

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Bandit migrant arrives, I feed bad
« on: January 12, 2015, 03:16:12 am »

Migrant arrives, nothing out of the ordinary. Some time later, I start getting a bunch of cancellation messages related to a wax worker (it might have been when I updated to 40.24?). No idea why. Going through his thoughts screen, I see he's not really part of the fortress...

The Molten Shields are a bandit group, and Doren himself might be randomly generated due his lack of Legends mode history and there being so little left of the dwarven civ. Originally I was just going to let him die from exposure or wait for one of the military to catch up to him (checked via savescumming -- this doesn't cause a loyalty cascade), but after watching him running back and forth between the food stockpile and the wilderness and starving to death I felt rather bad for him. He seems pleasant enough, and there's never anything nasty in his thoughts screen quote.

Once DFHack updates I'll try and repatriate him. Until then, I'll build him a little hut with its own burrow and see if he'll pick up a crossbow. He does appear in the military screen, though he won't do any jobs.

Has anyone else had a misfit migrant like this?
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I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
Honestly at the time, I didn't see what could go wrong with crowding 80 military Dwarves into a small room with a necromancer for the purpose of making bacon.

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Re: Bandit migrant arrives, I feed bad
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2015, 03:22:11 am »

Updating from 40.23 to 40.24 has some problems.
At least my fort had strange stockpile related bugs so I started a new game.

But your situation seems more interesting, could be an awesom feature.
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The troglodyte head shakes The Troglodyte around by the head, tearing apart the head's muscle!

Risen Asteshdakas, Ghostly Recruit has risen and is haunting the fortress!

Sutremaine

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Re: Bandit migrant arrives, I feed bad
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2015, 05:44:18 pm »

I updated from 40.19, and the world itself was generated in 40.12. There might be some weirdness going on behind the scenes.
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I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
Honestly at the time, I didn't see what could go wrong with crowding 80 military Dwarves into a small room with a necromancer for the purpose of making bacon.