would like to see a story put together of this 
well my 14 year old fort has had a vampire attack, only problem, the usual tactics will not work, we embarked on year 5 of the world so the vampire is no different from the rest of the dwarves.
I had recently marked all the barrels of blood and ichor to be dumped, I'm wondering if my vampire has been drinking from them for the past three years instead of getting it fresher.
I have several dwarves that have no drinking thoughts, ok the one that likes mead, no I've not had mead in the fort, perhaps that dwarf just needs some mead, but the rest, I'm afraid I got a vampire blood spill in the well. Time to un-dump the blood, put them in a blood only stockpile and see who drinks there.
I don't think vampires are sated from drinking spilled blood, only by feeding directly on a living victim. That's how it works in Adventurer mode at least, I've never had a fort survive long enough to receive a vampire.
and the vamps are created from spilled blood in DF if a vamp infected teh blood. The wiki describes how to do so.
Ok I gave all 72 dwarves numbers and watched as they ate , slept or drank and shortly every dwarf had been observed to do one of the three items. Could it be, yes that dwarf died of old age in his bed.
on the last goblin ambush only two squads showed up, and I did not restrict my dwarves inside, I could not close any doors due to them still being choked with dead goblins and their possessions I was trading with the humans, and... no dwarves were even scared, even though the goblins were fully able to path right into my trade depot, my war grizzlies took care of it, losing 8 grizzlies due to lightsabres, but still I added to my collection of goblin hands and feet. The Grizzlies bite a hand and shake it and tear it off, ditto for the feet, they usually can't kill the goblin unless I get a real mob going, there was no siege this year, I think the goblin civ is about worn out.
DWARVES 72 Trained animals 83, other animals 218. Military 11 dwarves that have not lifted a weapon in a year. 127 caged prisoners, 2360 dead/missing with 524 dead trolls and goblins, and yes hundreds of dead dwarves humans and elves. It's taken me two years to clean up from the last siege, my migrant waves were only 2 to 3 dwarves the last couple of times.
I have things to draw invaders away , like 5-6 beehives surrounded with cage and weapon traps I do not have a blocked path or any bridges I do have three doors in a row so the cats would have to deposit three vermin to let the goblins in, which they did manage to do one time, and then the trolls have knocked down all the doors. I only have 3 or 4 weapon traps in front of my door just so they CAN do so. My ores are cobalite and cinnabar, so all my metals have been imported one way or another. Fortunately I do have clay, sand and lignite. There is only one child in the fortress, and she and her sister were immigrant children, I do not have a meeting zone and everybody's been working flat out, everybody only has passing acquaintances except for the sisters mentioned. My mayor only knows 6 dwarves, and his social skills are mostly V rusty or rusty. Chance of tantrum spiral is nearly nil, even with a fort filled with dead dwarves goblins, bears and trolls rotting in the halls, only a few dwarves had the red arrows.
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