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[wereboar]

a gremlin appeared at my fort. couldn't find ANY mention of gremlins in the wiki. what are they?

[omalley]

Hahaha... I never saw a gremlin until I was teaching my friend how to play. He had just set up the farming, and a gremlin appeared and pulled the lever, flooding his fortress. It was hilarious (to me, at least). The gremlin was killed by a cat near instantaneously, but it had done the damage.

So, to answer your question, I think that they're like kobold and goblin thieves, but rather than steal goods or children, they pull levers. At least, that was my only experience.

[Soulwynd]

Alas, an army of warcats could save the day!

[Fieari]

Gremlins are on the Creatures page of the wiki.  I've added a redirect so that searching for Gremlin or Gremlins will take you there.  They're chasm monsters, and only appear on "evil" maps, apparently. And as has been noted, they pull levers.

[wereboar]

neat.  

[Gaulgath]

Aside from that, they are pretty weak. And do not double when they touch water.

[OldMiner]

I've seen a gremlin on my current fort map which is most definitely /not/ evil.  The population outside consists of the occasional pack of wolves, regular herds of deer, and the odd cougar now and again -- The wildlife agree: wilderness at worst.

Worthy of note: gremlins are invisible at first, but seem to actually have a definite spawn place (perhaps the chasm) and path towards a lever.  (My dwarves discovered him most of the way towards the farm-flooding lever, just inside of the dining room which has to be pathed through to get there.)  Following that, the gremlin led a footchase straight back to the chasm.  Upon his reaching it, he promptly disappeared and has not returned.

Sadly, there were no traps guarding the chasm just yet, so I didn't get to see his slimy little head split clean open.  Then again, all he was guilty of at that point was looking strangely and scaring a couple dwarves.  Barons may order a hammering over that sort of thing, but surely us dwarfmongers are better.

Perhaps we are all in this thread guilty of worsening the plot of the merely curious gremlin.  I shall name the next gremlin I see, "George, the mostdoomed".

[wereboar]

gremlins avoid traps.  they are easy pray for cats and dogs tho.  

[darknight]

Given a gremlin's gift for mechanical things, I wouldnt put it past them to even rework traps so that they hit dwarves instead. Now wouldnt THAT be a kick in the teeth?

[Toady One]

Gremlins can occur in any chasm-type environment, and they have a few additional abilities beyond those listed here.