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[BoogieMan]

I caught an Ettin and chained it near the entrance to the fortress to deter invaders.

A few minutes after I chained it in place, it killed a passing Marksdwarf on the way to an individual combat drill. According to the combat log, the Ettin attacked first. There were a number of other Dwarfs and pets in the area, no one else seems to be concerned and the Ettin just chilled while the stone it was standing on was smoothed.

 The wiki says this shouldn't be happening?



EDIT: Looks like I need to move it anyway.

My first tavern guest got strangled the moment he stepped into the room. I thought the Ettin would be a good Tavern attraction.

[Vaporo]

Ok, so I think this is a bug with megabeasts and the military. Some megabeasts (like dragons and hydras) can be tamed. However, since they are still megabeasts, the military considers them to be an "enemy" and will attack them.

I think this may be a related bug. The ettin was forced by its restraint to be passive towards your citizens, but no such restrictions existed with the military, so it killed the first one it could get its hands on. The same problem may have existed with your tavern guest. Were they military? Or it could simply be because they were part of a different civilization.

I recently made a thread (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=170756.0) asking advice on taming dragons, so that's where I found this out.

[BoogieMan]

Sounds plausible. I relocated it and haven't had any more issues. The visitor it throttled to death was a visiting warrior heading to the tavern/inn.

Captured a cyclops next, and it's going to guard the entrance from the caverns. Hopefully semi-megabeasts and megabeasts are hostile to each other?

[thegoatgod_pan]

I think the specific nature of the bug is linked to civilization enemies: if a megabest kills a civ member, it becomes an enemy of that civ forever, if it is later tamed into a citizen, the enemy of the civ status remains and so does the hostility—this is why it is hard to tame dragons, for example.