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[Iamblichos]

So... my new settlement was doing fairly well, still in the early stages.  Had five seasons and about 50 dwarves.  A werelizard attacked; OK, no big.  Lock the doors and wait for sunrise; only metal on the map is gold, so armor and weapons will take a bit.  EVERY DWARF IN THE FORT runs out and tries to dogpile the lizard.  All of them.  It killed 45 of the 50.

This is new to .42... I never had this problem in .40.  How do I prevent this?

[NedeN]

Burrows. I always set at least one burrow connected to the main dining hall/meeting hall with the still, kitchen and appropriate stockpiles all in the same burrow. Which includes a lever attached to the entrance bridge. Just turn the burrow on through the military screen when youre being attacked and off when the threat is gone.

[therahedwig]

Instill prohibition. Drunkeness is what causes the bravery.

Alternatively, make the effect of alchohol less strong in the raws? Or yeah, a draw bridge to keep your dwarves in would do.

[Niddhoger]

I've never seen this behavior before.  Civilians tend to run away from megabeasts in the first place... however you might have left an open path out of your fort besides that door (a tunnel somewhere that makes a diagonal connection outside?)

Doors make crappy fortress defense anyway- basically all your serious threats (megabeasts, FBs, Titans) are all building destroyers.  Goblins almost always arrive with dozens of BD trolls as well.  This is why we use (draw)bridges instead of doors.  One game I actually stopped to make a normal bridge over a canyon, and busted out laughing.  I was actually making a bridge to just be a bridge, instead of as a cheap floor/cheap roof/flood gate/gateway. 

[MobRules]

I forget where I saw it, but I think there was a comment from Toady somewhere speculating that he may have overdone the drunk=fearless when implementing drunkeness in 42, and that he might scale it back a bit in a later release.

[Iamblichos]

Doors make crappy fortress defense anyway- basically all your serious threats (megabeasts, FBs, Titans) are all building destroyers.  Goblins almost always arrive with dozens of BD trolls as well.  This is why we use (draw)bridges instead of doors.  One game I actually stopped to make a normal bridge over a canyon, and busted out laughing.  I was actually making a bridge to just be a bridge, instead of as a cheap floor/cheap roof/flood gate/gateway.

Yes, as I noted, this was in the first days of my fort.  Werebeasts can be kept out by doors - by the time a real threat showed up, I would have had bridges in place.  Didn't get a chance, though, because every dwarf in the tavern decided it would be the most fun EVER to go try to pound on the werebeast.

[Bakaridjan]

I had a similar experience in one of my early sieges and burrows didn't do a thing. Once my archers started shooting at gobbos from my fortifications I had civilians coming from 60-100 tiles away and start walking out the front door of my fortress past my stationed military dwarves. The weird thing was that they were just walking and would have the same jobs they apparently had before like "Socialize," "Listen to Poetry" etc.

[Naryar]

I'm pretty sure it's the vengeful thoughts from last update.

Solution is locking your fort. Or burrows, possibly both.

[Bakaridjan]

Solution is locking your fort. Or burrows, possibly both.

Yeah, but that's really more of a work-around, than a solution. The idea that civilians have to be behind a locked door to keep them from rushing past your military into the midst of a goblin invasion or other danger seems a little ridiculous.

[Naryar]

Solution is locking your fort. Or burrows, possibly both.

Yeah, but that's really more of a work-around, than a solution. The idea that civilians have to be behind a locked door to keep them from rushing past your military into the midst of a goblin invasion or other danger seems a little ridiculous.

This bug has been around for some time. Civilian dwarves will charge and dogpile enemies they really shouldn't, especially if there have been dwarven deaths.

I think it's been around since the emotion update in last version... when was that ? 0.40.08 or something ?

[Sanctume]

Gold Mugs are your new weapons as each dwarf will hold one and use those mugs as weapons.

[greycat]

The idea that civilians have to be behind a locked door to keep them from rushing past your military into the midst of a goblin invasion or other danger

... is how Dwarf Fortress has always been?  This is nothing new.  In older versions they'd charge into the goblin invasion to clean a trap, or to fetch a sock.  Now it's "to get a little excitement".  Or "the dwarven rum made me do it".  Does the wording really matter?

[Skully]

I had like 95 dwarves all attacking a giant cave spider. I was basically like "well, that's how *this* fort dies." But then they won, with no casualties.
I was like "holy crap they did it!"
and then a forgotten beast arrives with fire breath. like 15 tiles away.
when my FPS settled I was down my entire legion of war rhinos and like 80 dwarves.
And the booze. WE LOST THE BOOZE. Some dwarf must have made it back and evaporated it.
Anyway, fort's still going strong somehow.
Also in this one like 5 minutes after embarking my miner became the new king. Wonder how that happened.
I also have a civ where, as far as I can tell, 100% of the citizens are of a different race from the one it's listed as. :/

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Doors do NOT protect from werebeasts!

[mirrizin]

...Also in this one like 5 minutes after embarking my miner became the new king. Wonder how that happened.

I think, in that case, that means your current fort is the only fort left in your civilization.