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[Snikers]

My volcano-and-sand glass fortress has been pretty good about staying out of the fire imps' ways for the most part, but recently a refuse-gathering engineer was blasted repeatedly. Somehow (probably due to her Tough ability) she survived long enough for a Potash Maker Recruit to wrestle the imp to death, but suffered a yellow wound to the lower spine in the process. Looking at the wiki, this makes her a permanent invalid.

However! I saw her drag herself a couple of tiles during the fight with that broken spine (not quickly, but she was mobile) so she isn't totally paralyzed. What the wiki seems to imply, however, is that she'll try to heal until she dies of old age or she gets hammered for not fulfilling a mandate. So I ask this:

• When she was moving, was she crawling? Does a lower spine wound mean she still has use of her arms?
• If I deconstruct her bed (after she heals her other injuries) will she pathetically drag herself around the fortress, veeeery sloooowly going through the normal dwarven life?
• Hypothetically, can someone be bedridden and still socialize? Or does that Unconscious tag stay until they recover?

[CrazyEyes]

As long as she's not bedridden, she can still make an excellent Marksdwarf.  They don't need to move to attack.

[Talion]

My current fortress has an elite wrestler who was bed ridden for many years with a yellow lower spine injury. I was sure he would stay there forever (like the fortress leader, the poor liaison is still waiting for him to regain conciousness). Then one season he was suddenly up and about and even when he suffered an upper spine injury in the course of his duties, he remained active.

[Dadamh]

As long as she's not bedridden, she can still make an excellent Marksdwarf.  They don't need to move to attack.

If you have three seasons for her to drag herself to the fortifications.

But to the original question, she's pretty much slowed and useless for life.  She will likely go to a bed and set there with the "rest" job forever.

[Snikers]

As long as she's not bedridden, she can still make an excellent Marksdwarf.  They don't need to move to attack.

If you have three seasons for her to drag herself to the fortifications.

But to the original question, she's pretty much slowed and useless for life.  She will likely go to a bed and set there with the "rest" job forever.

Enh. Mechanics isn't one of those skills that you need done very quickly. And it'd just be too depressing for her to get in a tussle with fireballs and survive, only to remain in a coma forever.

[Boatmurderer]

She wouldn't be comatose. Just bedridden with peasants waiting on her hand and foot. A bucket of water whenever she's thirsty, and food whenever she's hungry. It probably makes her want to die the thought of staying sober for the rest of her life, so maybe it would have been better if she was in a coma.

[Snikers]

Based on my cursory experiences dwarves pass out for the length of their healing times, though maybe I was just checking on badly-off dwarves. If she's sleeping the whole time, she's essentially comatose. A bedridden but awake dwarf will at least converse with friends, and may even become useful for good thoughts if I plop her in a meeting place.

Imagine that. The mechanic becomes a happiness machine herself...

[Jackrabbit]

the problem with spine wounds is they cannot spar any more, no matter the wound. a yellow injury is, however, far more serious. that dwarf is useless, unfortunately but if you give her a crossbow she can defend her room and any other place she is at at the time

[Madcat]

Could you make her a workshop in her room?

[John Johnston]

I've got a Royal Guard stuck in barracks with a bad case of yellowspine.  He's been there for twenty years. 

[Aardvark]

I've got a Royal Guard stuck in barracks with a bad case of yellowspine.  He's been there for twenty years. 

What is wrong with that?
You have a uselss guard dwarf who doesn't drink up your alcohol

[LegacyCWAL]

I've got a Royal Guard stuck in barracks with a bad case of yellowspine.  He's been there for twenty years. 

Hey, that's a good thing.  Royal Guards aren't worth anything anyways, so it's a good place to put dwarves that are the same way.

[Boatmurderer]

Royal Guard duty is the best place for permanently crippled dwarves.

[Bromor Neckbeard]

I'm nthing the Royal Guard idea.  Also, she could make a good craftsdwarf.  One of my current "Original Seven" got a yellow lower spine injury when I learned that trying to dig a ramp under a tree is a bad idea.  I set him up with a bed next to a craftsdwarf's workshop next to stockpiles of bone and food, and have had him churning out bone bolts ever since to give my Marksdwarves something to practice with.  Once he got to Legendary, I switched him to making totems and crafts to bring in some money.  He also had a fey mood and produced a bone scepter or something worth well over 10000 gold, so he's more than paid for his keep.

[Jetman123]

Well, the Royal Guard escort the nobles. At the same time they often end up defending the dwarves around the nobles. And since they don't beat on criminals, why not give them shields and weapons? I have them all as swordsdwarves. They're frighteningly effective at taking down any gobboes that get past my military.