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[krumlink]

I have a miner walking around with a broken head, which defies logic. How can a miner walk around with a broken skull? I would say if they have wounds above moderate they need to be taken care of.

[Neonivek]

You can walk around with a Broken head in real life... depending on several factors (Not saying it is likely). The most dangerous part about Head Truama isn't the skull but the brain.

Anyhow the reason he is walking around with a head injury is I THINK the head is one of the few Never healing injuries being: Brain, Neck, Spine, and head

I really don't know

[i2amroy]

No, your head will recover, the only things that do not are the body parts with [NERVOUS] or [THOUGHT] in there tags. In vanilla DF, this is just the neck, spine, and brain for humanoids.

[1138]

Dwarf Phineas Gage?

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On September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage was foreman of a work gang blasting rock while clearing the roadbed for a new rail line outside the town of Cavendish, Vermont. After a hole was drilled into a body of rock, one of Gage's duties was to add gunpowder, a fuse, and sand, then tamp the charge down with a large iron rod. Possibly because the sand was omitted, around 4:30 P.M. "the powder exploded, carrying an instrument through his head an inch and a fourth in circumference, and three feet and eight inches in length, which he was using at the time. The iron entered on the side of his face, shattering the upper jaw, and passing back of the left eye, and out at the top of the head" (Boston Post for September 21, shown left, reprinting a report in the Ludlow [Vermont] Free Soil Union). In fact, the iron was 1-1/4 inches in diameter, not "circumference," and was three feet seven inches long. Weighing 13-1/4lb (6 kg), the rod was said to have landed some 80 feet (25 meters) away.

Amazingly, Gage spoke within a few minutes, walked with little or no assistance, and sat upright in a cart for the 3/4-mile ride to town. Though physicians Edward H. Williams and John Martyn Harlow found him weak from hemorrhage, he had a regular pulse of about 60 and was alert and coherent.

Does your guy keep passing out? I have one like that in my current fortress who does, and the job cancellation spam gets really annoying.

[i2amroy]

Does your guy keep passing out? I have one like that in my current fortress who does, and the job cancellation spam gets really annoying.

The answer to that my friend, lies in the simple power of a dwarf, a lever, and a bridge.

[Idiom]

You can fracture your skull and live to recover easy. Happens all the time. When it occurs at the forehead level and up then it's problematic.

[Jetman123]

I read a story once about a highjacking on a FedEx flight where a man brought a heavy object - either a wrench or a hammer, I can't remember - during his stowaway. In midair, he beat the pilot over the head, fracturing his skull right over the crown. Once the highjacker was subdued by the copilot and another man onboard, the pilot was able to land the plane successfully despite having a horribly broken skull, and survived with no ill effects save a bit of blood loss.

It's not at all like a joint or limb. There the joint or limb will not be able to hold weight, and will be in horrible, horrible pain. The skull is just a shield for the head, and is not a joint or a limb. Having it broken means you could get infected if not properly treated and dressed, and you most likely will have a hell of a headache and a good amount of pain, but you would be able to get up, walk around, and even do your job while it heals - so long as someone bandages it up.

[i2amroy]

I read a story once about a highjacking on a FedEx flight where a man brought a heavy object - either a wrench or a hammer, I can't remember - during his stowaway. In midair, he beat the pilot over the head, fracturing his skull right over the crown. Once the highjacker was subdued by the copilot and another man onboard, the pilot was able to land the plane successfully despite having a horribly broken skull, and survived with no ill effects save a bit of blood loss.

It's not at all like a joint or limb. There the joint or limb will not be able to hold weight, and will be in horrible, horrible pain. The skull is just a shield for the head, and is not a joint or a limb. Having it broken means you could get infected if not properly treated and dressed, and you most likely will have a hell of a headache and a good amount of pain, but you would be able to get up, walk around, and even do your job while it heals - so long as someone bandages it up.

Unless it is really bad (i.e. brain is showing though) as then you can be in some pain as your brain is exposed to the outside airs.

[Skizelo]

Dwarf Phineas Gage?

Urist McRailworker cancels build road: gambling.
Do brain damages shake up personality traits? I'm sure Toady has it in him to segment the brain and associate appropriately -  a frontal lobe injury would set the dwarf to seek short term rewards, and so on.

[Eater of Vermin]

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=23797.msg265333

I'm pretty sure brain damage has an effect.   

[CrazyEyes]

The issue isn't whether or not Toady can code brain damage - he clearly can.  The issue is that all dwarven mothers deliberately inflict brain damage on their children at birth as a rite of passage.

[Dae]

He could, but damaged zones would be selected the same way an arrow through the upper body selects organs.
Meaning each and every area would be damaged.
I wonder what would happen.

[Tormy]

I have a miner walking around with a broken head, which defies logic. How can a miner walk around with a broken skull? I would say if they have wounds above moderate they need to be taken care of.

Well you can walk around with a broken skull in real life also, if theres no brain damage at least...

I'm pretty sure brain damage has an effect.   

It does.

[krumlink]

Well it would look akward with a dwarf with a smashed skull walking around.

[Neonivek]

Well it would look akward with a dwarf with a smashed skull walking around.

They don't seem to mind that all their animals are covered head to toe with blood and vomit...  I don't see how a bloody head mangled dwarf would really startle them