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angelious

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friendly trolls?
« on: October 21, 2015, 01:04:16 pm »
are trolls supposed to be friendly?

i have a troll in my fort that is just..sitting next to my wood burners...he doesnt do anything, he just stand there...has stood there for quite a long time actually...i would send my military to kill him but..i dont have any equipment for the poor lad so he would most likely get butchered...
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PatrikLundell

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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2015, 01:23:37 pm »
Are you sure the troll isn't doing anything? Trolls are building destroyers, so it might very well be occupied with destroying a wood furnace...

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Having said that, there are a lot of odd cases where supposedly hostile critters just pass your dorfs by and neither party seems to react, even in single tile wide corridors.
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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2015, 02:19:08 pm »
Quote from: angelious on October 21, 2015, 01:04:16 pm
are trolls supposed to be friendly?

i have a troll in my fort that is just..sitting next to my wood burners...he doesnt do anything, he just stand there...has stood there for quite a long time actually...i would send my military to kill him but..i dont have any equipment for the poor lad so he would most likely get butchered...

Yes they are supposed to be friendly.  Not to buildings but to people.
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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2015, 02:20:48 pm »
I remember reading some dwarf fortress story that included a friendly troll. Was this troll wild or was he from a civilization, did he come to your fort during the life of the current fort or did you reclaim the fort?
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angelious

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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2015, 02:21:22 pm »
Quote from: PatrikLundell on October 21, 2015, 01:23:37 pm
Are you sure the troll isn't doing anything? Trolls are building destroyers, so it might very well be occupied with destroying a wood furnace...

Edit:
Having said that, there are a lot of odd cases where supposedly hostile critters just pass your dorfs by and neither party seems to react, even in single tile wide corridors.

no its just...standing on the door way...im kinda surprised it hasnt died of hunger yet...
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angelious

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« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2015, 02:29:10 pm »
ok update: the troll woke up. attacked a dwarf. gonna send my military to kill it


edit: ok idk what happened but...shortly after the troll was killed all of my industrial workshops just...vanished...it cant be a second troll neither because i have the mines locked up with a steel door thats tightly sealed and its still there...
« Last Edit: October 21, 2015, 02:48:16 pm by angelious »
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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2015, 02:52:52 pm »
Quote from: angelious on October 21, 2015, 02:29:10 pm
ok update: the troll woke up. attacked a dwarf. gonna send my military to kill it


edit: ok idk what happened but...shortly after the troll was killed all of my industrial workshops just...vanished...it cant be a second troll neither because i have the mines locked up with a steel door thats tightly sealed and its still there...
I guess he was busy destroying those workshops then. Unless they vanished on the spot with you looking, in which case it might be a new bug.
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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2015, 02:58:19 pm »
Quote from: latias1290 on October 21, 2015, 02:52:52 pm
Quote from: angelious on October 21, 2015, 02:29:10 pm
ok update: the troll woke up. attacked a dwarf. gonna send my military to kill it


edit: ok idk what happened but...shortly after the troll was killed all of my industrial workshops just...vanished...it cant be a second troll neither because i have the mines locked up with a steel door thats tightly sealed and its still there...
I guess he was busy destroying those workshops then. Unless they vanished on the spot with you looking, in which case it might be a new bug.

the thing is, those things got destroyed few minutes AFTER the troll was dead..

it stood still for like half a year on a doorway,5 paces away from the nearest workshop,then one moment it just suddenly attacks a farmer that killed it.

then fastforward a couple of minutes and BOOM. suddenly all my workshops are gone.


really crippled the industry...
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« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2015, 05:34:00 pm »
Must be a really smart troll who left a last straw keeping each shop together and then hooked them all up to a hand held dead man's grip lever...
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angelious

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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2015, 05:41:13 pm »
Quote from: PatrikLundell on October 21, 2015, 05:34:00 pm
Must be a really smart troll who left a last straw keeping each shop together and then hooked them all up to a hand held dead man's grip lever...

so it seems..after that a namened troll actually hanged out and took care of the kids left behind by a forgotten beast that killed everybody in my fort...it died of bloodloss tho...
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Re: friendly trolls?
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2015, 06:41:47 pm »
Quote from: angelious on October 21, 2015, 02:29:10 pm
ok update: the troll woke up. attacked a dwarf. gonna send my military to kill it


edit: ok idk what happened but...shortly after the troll was killed all of my industrial workshops just...vanished...it cant be a second troll neither because i have the mines locked up with a steel door thats tightly sealed and its still there...


Will you just stop with all those annoying pauses? It makes your posts infuriating to read and makes me imagine you as being barely able to coherently pronounce a sentence. Every post is full of this annoying crapola.
« Last Edit: October 23, 2015, 06:43:21 pm by Proudnerd »
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Re: friendly trolls?
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2015, 12:20:25 pm »
Quote from: Proudnerd on October 23, 2015, 06:41:47 pm
Quote from: angelious on October 21, 2015, 02:29:10 pm
ok update: the troll woke up. attacked a dwarf. gonna send my military to kill it


edit: ok idk what happened but...shortly after the troll was killed all of my industrial workshops just...vanished...it cant be a second troll neither because i have the mines locked up with a steel door thats tightly sealed and its still there...


Will you just stop with all those annoying pauses? It makes your posts infuriating to read and makes me imagine you as being barely able to coherently pronounce a sentence. Every post is full of this annoying crapola.


wow.



someones cranky.
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