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[em1LL]

I had two strange cases in my fortress recently.

The first one is a dead military dwarf inside the training room. There are no combat reports and his health was good enough to live a long life.



The second one just happened. My dwarves found two corpses inside a tavern -- tavern keeper and goblin guest.



There are no combat reports and it seems that I don't have a vampire in my fortress because the only citizens that don't have a bedroom are the dwarf from the starting squad and a child (according to the Wiki, they can't be vampires).

There are no information about these cases in the "Justice" menu either.

What can it be?

[em1LL]

There is no vomit around their corpses so I don't think that it's an alcohol poisoning either.

[em1LL]

Here's my save file -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/ebvrbk993vopqn3/region1.zip?dl=0

[Bumber]

Check legends or engrave a slab. It could have just been old age.

[PatrikLundell]

Old age deaths happens on the turn of the year (all at the same time). There's a DFHack command ("deathcause" or something like that) that might give an indication.

[em1LL]

Old age deaths happens on the turn of the year (all at the same time). There's a DFHack command ("deathcause" or something like that) that might give an indication.

Is DFHack available for 0.43.01?

[levraininjaneer]

not yet. I am waiting in anticipation for it to be, though,

[Dunamisdeos]

Colonel Urist, in the tavern, with the +gneiss scepter+.

[em1LL]

Suffocated? What does it mean?

[Dunamisdeos]

Suffocated? What does it mean?

Sounds like alcohol, perhaps? The only other things I can think of that cause suffocation are lung damage (via wound or syndrome) or being choked to death.

[em1LL]

Suffocated? What does it mean?

Sounds like alcohol, perhaps?

But there was no vomit around them.

[Dunamisdeos]

Have you killed any titans or forgotten beasts lately? A syndrome is the only other option I can think of, since you already checked combat logs. Their blood can have interesting and delayed effects.

[PatrikLundell]

Dorfs have a tendency to clean up vomit, especially to locations that are close to where they happen to be... Death by suffocation in the tavern: very likely to be alcohol poisoning, unless syndromes, etc. can reasonably be suspected. It is possible for a bar brawl where the opponent damaged the victim's lungs sufficiently for suffocation, but excessive alcohol consumption is still the most likely cause by far. It usually takes a number of attempts from the tavern keeper/performer to successfully generate enough compound lung damage to kill the victims. but unless you monitor your tavern patrons you'll usually discover it when it's too late.

[PopTart]

I used to have this problem so I transferred all tavern personnel to the temple. So far it seems to be working, but if other dwarfs can serve alcohol, it won't probably.

[PatrikLundell]

As long as you remove the performers as well there won't be any poisoning activity in the tavern (barring syndromes dragged in and animals let lose).