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[Lord_lemonpie]

After retiring my fort for quite some time, i discovered that some humans settled there and one of them became my hammerer. Didn't even know that that could happen.

[Madman198237]

Thank you for the answer, Aristion. Oh, and the pastry comedy.
I had the thought that it could be something related to that.

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The "Devil" gave it away. So, the HFS trap tunnel shall alternate kitchens and weapons traps loaded with *steel whips*.

[Splint]

After retiring my fort for quite some time, i discovered that some humans settled there and one of them became my hammerer. Didn't even know that that could happen.

Based on what i've seen, lots of nonplayer race creatures will migrate into dwarven (or elven, or human) sites and take up residence during worldgen. They're likely the result of previous conquests or possibly regular old immigrants who felt a dwarven fort had more to offer than a human city. I once had a random worldgen adventurer visit my fort and hang out by the wagon now that I think of it.

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Welp, out of boredom I've had my manager queue up enough coffins and slabs for everyone in the fortress and have the masons now pulling double duty as engravers to smooth this place out. The hospital is complete, all 8 melee militia more or less equipped in light armor (leather armor, helmets, gloves, and high boots as well wooden shields, mail shirts, and weapons of thier choice,) with metal gauntlets and boots for the leaders. Same for the 6 marksdwarves and their leader, though they don't get shields or melee weapons.

God damn am I bored. All the fighting's on the other side of the ocean up north. And speaking of north, merchants seem to favor that way so a paved road is probably going to be needed that aways. A wagon just broke trying to navigate the rough unpaved northern way into my fort, killing any hope for trade this fall.

[ZzarkLinux]

Sad news in The Joyful Land of Ghouls. The Cavy Drop does remove unwanted pets, but I don't think it trains "has witnessed death". The wiki may confirm it, because it says only dwarves dying will cause that thought. Also, my military screen is unable to equip my militia captain with the Legendary Horse Leather Leggings 

[Splint]

Sad news in The Joyful Land of Ghouls. The Cavy Drop does remove unwanted pets, but I don't think it trains "has witnessed death". The wiki may confirm it, because it says only dwarves dying will cause that thought. Also, my military screen is unable to equip my militia captain with the Legendary Horse Leather Leggings 

If the spikes are getting them instead of death by impact the spike trap may be a factor (they hit and become 'jammed' in the trap rather than just dying on top of it, causing the death to technically not be seen from what I can tell.) my milita just wiped out a bunch of trogs and crundles and got the has witnessed death thought.

[ZzarkLinux]

Sad news in The Joyful Land of Ghouls. The Cavy Drop does remove unwanted pets, but I don't think it trains "has witnessed death". The wiki may confirm it, because it says only dwarves dying will cause that thought.

If the spikes are getting them instead of death by impact the spike trap may be a factor (they hit and become 'jammed' in the trap rather than just dying on top of it, causing the death to technically not be seen from what I can tell.) my milita just wiped out a bunch of trogs and crundles and got the has witnessed death thought.

You might be right. I see that when the spears go "upright", then the corpse vanishes. Using the "k" key to review the square only shows spikes and nothing else. The corpse is only visible on inspection by (1) retracting the spike or (2) the coprse reanimates. Also, i got fortifications which I assume the dwarves can see through.

I suppose more testing is needed, maybe removing the spike, removing the fortifications, but then the trap seems non-lethal for cavy pups. Still it's worth a shot.

Thanks for the advice

[Solon64]

It has been suggested by some that only the death of intelligent creatures will increment the "has witnessed death" counter.  In the anecdotal example here, i believe trogs have the [INTELLIGENT] tag, so they'd do it.  Cavys.... do not.  So I don't think they'll do it.

I may be wrong, though dropping puppies and kittens has always worked for me.

Hmm, no, after searching through the raws, neither dogs, cats, crundles, cavys, or trogs have the intelligent tag.  It's likely then some vision issue.  Try glass windows instead of fortifications?  Or try removing the spike traps and letting them bleed out on the ground instead, that's gotta be more horrifying than instant spiky death

[vjek]

Testing armor/weapons and dwarf->hostile combat, in fortress mode..

Embarked with magnetite and magma, made a squad of 9 a full set of iron weapons/armor.

Necromancer squad shows up.  I ensure they're all properly wearing everything they should, and send them to the surface.  They're all killed in about... oh 10 seconds.

So, next test.  Set them up training full time, wait until they're legendary fighters (and corresponding highly skilled in other aspects of combat from training), send them out again.  By this time, the undead has increased to 31 total, and the squad absolutely crushes them.    They take some injuries, but nothing that requires hospitalization.

So, lesson learned.  Raw recruits are useless! (in 40.x)

[userpay]

I just had 4 or 5 dwarves fall asleep for absolutely no reason. No sleep blinking arrow or nothing.

[vjek]

That's right, you rat bastard...

[Aristion]

I was looking at the civ screen for the dwarf civ and i didn't see the king on the list,  so i was thinking; Wonder when a dwarf will become king despite there being a lot of baron(ess)s on it. Turns out there are enough nobles for a half pages king on it and i didn't even think of scrolling.

[Chevaleresse]

I recently discovered that the average miner can quickly dismember the average troglodyte.

Oh, and I managed to dig a staircase straight down into the caverns. Yay. Fortunately, the entrance to the mines is controlled by a stone door and a drawbridge.

[Aristion]

Has anyone noticed that cats are naturally legendary climbers?

[varnish]

Has anyone noticed that cats are naturally legendary climbers?

I have. Sadly, there are no climbing skills that can save them from the butcher's shop.

[lianopbs]

My douchy has mandated a zinc bed, how obnoxious