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Author Topic: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!  (Read 904 times)

LockeCarnelia

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Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« on: September 12, 2009, 09:45:40 am »
So I barricaded a fey mooded craftsman in because I didn't have the materials he wanted with Fortifications.  Unfortunately, this is in the middle of my fortress, so everyone and their mother is running away, and we have a massive pileup in the offices of Dwarves running away, then running back, then running away, it's havoc.

What do I do?
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Akigagak

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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2009, 09:47:42 am »
Tunnel around?
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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2009, 09:48:13 am »
I tried.  They're cancelling their digging operations out of fear of a caged berserk dwarf peasant.
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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2009, 09:49:46 am »
Get some marksdwarves trained and station them at the fortification. Don't forget the bolts. That should silence the berserk dwarf.
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LockeCarnelia

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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2009, 09:55:29 am »
Great, he's got bolts, I told him to station there, and he's standing around in the statue garden doing nothing and going HERPADERP.
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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2009, 10:37:51 am »
Magma.
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« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2009, 11:38:27 am »
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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2009, 12:00:29 pm »
Quote from: LockeCarnelia on September 12, 2009, 09:55:29 am
Great, he's got bolts, I told him to station there, and he's standing around in the statue garden doing nothing and going HERPADERP.

He is on duty, right?
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Quote from: Lord Dakoth on September 17, 2009, 10:47:58 pm
It's amazing how dwarves can make a stack of bones completely waterproof and magmaproof.
Quote from: Neruz on September 18, 2009, 06:58:26 am
It's amazing how they can make an entire floodgate out of the bones of 2 cats.

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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2009, 12:03:49 pm »
Quote from: LockeCarnelia on September 12, 2009, 09:55:29 am
Great, he's got bolts, I told him to station there, and he's standing around in the statue garden doing nothing and going HERPADERP.

Is he on duty? Is he still holding someone elses sock from his days as a wrestler?
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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2009, 02:25:42 pm »
Yes, he has a crossbow equipped, he has 5 bolts, and he's standing there doing nothing.  Unless he's shooting and I haven't noticed.
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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2009, 02:45:38 pm »
Make sure to station him somewhere he can actually reach.  If you try to station him inside the sealed-off area, he'll ignore you.  Station him just outside.
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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2009, 04:14:47 pm »
Either use wardogs and/or military to put him out of your misery, or just wall him off so no one can actually see him.

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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2009, 04:59:09 pm »
Make sure you station him far enough away - if you put him too close, he'll want to switch to melee attacks and won't do anything.
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Quote from: Lord Dakoth on September 17, 2009, 10:47:58 pm
It's amazing how dwarves can make a stack of bones completely waterproof and magmaproof.
Quote from: Neruz on September 18, 2009, 06:58:26 am
It's amazing how they can make an entire floodgate out of the bones of 2 cats.

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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2009, 07:23:45 pm »
Too late.  -.-

Everyone died of thirst and hunger.  Literally.  Everyone.  And then Goblins came and finished off.  Restarting.  XD
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Malicus

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Re: Halp! Everyone's Running Away!
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2009, 07:28:20 pm »
Why did you use fortifications?  Dwarves can see through fortifications.
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