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[SomeUntakenUsername]

One of the later forts I played I succumbed to overwhelming amounts of !!FUN!! with a zombie siege. Everyone was slaughtered except one dwarf. Upon inspection I noticed it was a legendary child... somehow having a negative age...



It seems that because the dwarven child had a negative age, her tissues had no volume so all attacks passed through with no harm. Unfortunately, she was constantly unconscious, and eventually died of dehydration after a few months.

[PatrikLundell]

Was she a migrant? At least the previous version had a bug where the age of migrant children could be incorrect (including negative), which corrected itself either on the turn of the year or their birthday (I don't remember which).
Are you playing a version older than 0.44.01? If so, the head bug would be present. This bug causes sufficiently small targets to never get hit, such as animated head hair and head skin. That bug was fixed in 0.44.01.

[SomeUntakenUsername]

I believe she was a migrant(only one child was born in the fortress and I had about 9 of 'em), however I am playing the latest version (44.02)

[bloop_bleep]

I remember someone talking about something similar in 43.05. We were discussing whether there is a way to possibly weaponize this.

[PatrikLundell]

The age would be explained by the known migrant bug, but as far as I know that doesn't have any effects other than an incorrect display of the age. The failure to hit the infant definitely sounds like the failure to hit small targets bug that should have been solved with 0.44.01, so I'd recommend the filing of a bug tracker report.

[SomeUntakenUsername]

I'm not 100% sure if this is relevant to the bug, but as I was monitoring the child's status, I DID see that the age did indeed count up as time passed(edit: stayed negative but counted up day-by-day)...

I'm fairly sure I gened this world right after 44.02 came out as I had to update my own personal mods (they give adventurers access to metalsmithing, and underground animal races civ's in worldgen)

[Paxiecrunchle]

Go fetus squad!

[Staalo]

Oh hey, looks like little Sazir Dotshot has a friend!

EDIT: There was some stuff here about bugs, but it looks like others have already explained it better in this thread. A rare but funny bug in any case.