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[IceShade]

Hi there, I've looked around a bit but I haven't been able to find an answer to my question.

Currently, I've got 3 champions bedridden for probably 2 years now, and I just received another casualty.. he was a rather skilled crossbowdwarf, and he went through his bolts within seconds. Fired as fast as a machinegun, he did. When he ran out, he decided to close up and smack them with his crossbow, but that didn't really end up well for him. Even though he was fighting a lasher with a whip, or one with a scourge (that's all I could see), his right lower leg got ripped off.

In any case, I've got 4 injured in bed now:
2x "yellow"/broken lower spine
1x "grey" minor wounded lower spine
1x lopped off lower right leg

Will any of these ever recover? Will the guy with one leg missing still be useful, or will he be in bed for the rest of his life?

I already had to put some other guy to rest after he recovered from broken limbs with a mangled lung after 3 years. If I knew he'd be useless (he kept dropping in and out of unconsciousness) I would have let him die a lot sooner.

[Hyndis]

Nervous system damage will never heal, but its generally not too big of an issue. The dwarf will never spar again, but they can still be useful, such as performing various crafts or using crossbows.

Lopped off limbs will never heal, obviously, and the dwarf is usually confined to bed for life. An ideal candidate for a guard! 

Yellow and red wounds to other body parts will heal over time. Red wounds take much longer to heal than yellow wounds, but they should heal. Eventually.

[IceShade]

Never sparring again is not much of an issue, they're already champions. As such, they can't do anything else other than be a soldier... will they still make for good soldiers? If they're not even going to fight, I might as well kill them off.

[goudegamer]

Nah he can still be useful. Stick him in a bed near the entrance and you have a cheap kobold catcher.

[yossarin]

This bring one question i have.

When you have a crippled dwarf ,one that can't walk .

How do he survive when economy starts ?

He can't pey rent ? He can't pay for food ?

??

[Pilsu]

Everyone gets to eat, regardless of how poor they are

Plunk him at some appropriate spot so he can die with some dignity when a siege arrives

[Skorpion]

Nervous system damage will never heal, but its generally not too big of an issue. The dwarf will never spar again, but they can still be useful, such as performing various crafts or using crossbows.

Lopped off limbs will never heal, obviously, and the dwarf is usually confined to bed for life. An ideal candidate for a guard! 

Yellow and red wounds to other body parts will heal over time. Red wounds take much longer to heal than yellow wounds, but they should heal. Eventually.

Well, looks like Blinky the Legendary Woodcrafter is doomed to moderate brain damage and a lopped off eye, then.
His mangled lung is probably going to heal eventually, though, like his broken head.
I'm still shocked he survived at all.

[yossarin]

Everyone gets to eat, regardless of how poor they are

Plunk him at some appropriate spot so he can die with some dignity when a siege arrives

Like a soon to be filled with magma moat ?

[LegacyCWAL]

2x "yellow"/broken lower spine

Bedridden for life.

1x "grey" minor wounded lower spine

Will never spar again, but otherwise he'll be fine once he recovers from any other injuries he may have.  He'll even still use the archery range if you give him a crossbow.

1x lopped off lower right leg

He's either bedridden for life or else useless anyways.  Put him in the Royal Guard if you can.


*I've had guys with red lung wounds that never heal, but that don't seem to hinder them beyond getting winded more easily and never sparring.

[IceShade]

Nervous system damage will never heal, but its generally not too big of an issue. The dwarf will never spar again, but they can still be useful, such as performing various crafts or using crossbows.

Lopped off limbs will never heal, obviously, and the dwarf is usually confined to bed for life. An ideal candidate for a guard! 

Yellow and red wounds to other body parts will heal over time. Red wounds take much longer to heal than yellow wounds, but they should heal. Eventually.

Well, looks like Blinky the Legendary Woodcrafter is doomed to moderate brain damage and a lopped off eye, then.
His mangled lung is probably going to heal eventually, though, like his broken head.
I'm still shocked he survived at all.

I had a guy with a mangled lung (red). It never healed. He was winded easily and dropped in and out of unconsciousness regularly.

2x "yellow"/broken lower spine

Bedridden for life.

1x "grey" minor wounded lower spine

Will never spar again, but otherwise he'll be fine once he recovers from any other injuries he may have.  He'll even still use the archery range if you give him a crossbow.

1x lopped off lower right leg

He's either bedridden for life or else useless anyways.  Put him in the Royal Guard if you can.


*I've had guys with red lung wounds that never heal, but that don't seem to hinder them beyond getting winded more easily and never sparring.

Those are the answers I seek, even though I do not like them. I'll have to end their lives one by one with long intervals, to avoid tantrum spirals. The one with the grey lower spine recovered, but I can live with the fact that he won't spar. As long as he fights, I'm happy with that.

Hey, I've only got so many beds and my well is going dry quite rapidly with all the wounded, and I've got a population cap. Time to let someone else have a chance at life!

[zchris13]

Fortress Guard!

[IceShade]

Heh, well, mr. minor spine injury is doing great. He already strangled a kobold, and two dromedaries while randomly wandering out in the desert. Mr. missing one leg is now part of the royal guard (I would have starved him, but he has a lot of friends), as the only one. No need for a royal guard, as I promptly threw the nobles (tax collector, hammerer, baron and baroness) in their suicide booths when they arrived. I disabled the economy for a reason, and I dont want any snobby good for nothing nobles to just barge in, take residence and start demanding stuff. Try it somewhere else.

One of the yellow spineys is now dead. He was a guard with no friends, nothing. Just a deity.

The other one is still in bed, and I'll have to do something about him.

So far so good.

[numerobis]

Lungs also never heal.  I usually make a one-lunged or one-eyed dwarf be my sheriff.

[kefkakrazy]

Note that your wounded dwarves will probably have to deal with cave adaptation-the first time I ever had a problem with it was when a miner got caught in a cavein, had a mangled leg, and by the time she healed up she'd adopted half the cats in the fortress and puked every time she saw the sun.

[IceShade]

Pretty much everyone pukes their intestines out once they reach the surface. My courtyard is one big green mess...