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[Aspgren]

Sorry if this has been posted earlier, I didn't find anything like it in the search.

I wonder. What's the most permanent injuries one of your dwarves has sustained, and still maintained usability? I don't mean like. One who is attacked by a titan and breaks EVERYTHING - but ultimately recovers. No I mean missing toes, fingers, eyes, hands, feet, arms. Broken spines and braindamage, ruptured lungs - yet not spending his days in bed.

I had a speardwarf who had spinal injuries from sparring, and then he took a goblin arrow to the face - lost an eye and couldn't think properly no more. He ultimately died but I got to thinking - man how AWESOME it would have been to keep him in the army.

Any interesting stories?

[DWeird]

I heard there was a dwarf with two mangled lungs and a mangled heart who went around his business like it was nothing.

[pushy]

I heard there was a dwarf with two mangled lungs and a mangled heart who went around his business like it was nothing.

I highly doubt that - he'd die of blood loss or suffocation very, very quickly.

[Danarca]

I heard there was a dwarf with two mangled lungs and a mangled heart who went around his business like it was nothing.

Yeah I read that as well, can't remember which topic, it's pretty recent...
But he died after 2 weeks

Of course he was a champion

[Rowanas]

Okilzas the god dwarf. He took a lung shot, had one eye taken out,  one leg removed and yet he still kept going. He was my finest Fortress Guardsdwarf. there was a major bug or something because he never slept, ate, drank or moved except when goblin raiders came, at which point he would spring into action with his empty crossbow (he never reloaded or got new bolts) and beat half the invading goblin force to death. When all the goblins were disposed of he would just sit there in the place he was when the last goblin died until the next goblin ambush came. Weird.

[Cruxador]

Okilzas the god dwarf. He took a lung shot, had one eye taken out,  one leg removed and yet he still kept going. He was my finest Fortress Guardsdwarf. there was a major bug or something because he never slept, ate, drank or moved except when goblin raiders came, at which point he would spring into action with his empty crossbow (he never reloaded or got new bolts) and beat half the invading goblin force to death. When all the goblins were disposed of he would just sit there in the place he was when the last goblin died until the next goblin ambush came. Weird.

I find it telling that his name is an exclamation followed by a phonetic expression of what he does, from the gobbo's point of view.

[Myroc]

One of my fortress guards in the 2D version has a red injury to one of his lungs, and is still walking around happily. Granted, he keeps falling unconscious all the time (a trait which he shares with a mechanic who has lost an eye), but he's alive and kicking.

[Blackburn]

My only story doesn't compare. I had a hunter named Cilob out killing unicorns. One of them stabbed him in the eye with its horn. Cilob then wandered the countryside, falling unconscious a lot, until I took away his hunting task, upon which he returned to the fort. After a while, he recovered and I sent him out to hunt unicorns again.

He was eventually killed by unicorns. But he'd killed so many by himself, his name and title didn't fit on the screen. Too bad I can't remember it.

I exterminated those unicorns, by the way. All dead.

[guale]

I had a hunter loose an arm to a giant eagle and he kept on going. He probably would have kept on hunting had I not retired him to guard duty. Lost the whole left arm, shoulder down.

[Dwarf]

Okilzas the god dwarf. He took a lung shot, had one eye taken out,  one leg removed and yet he still kept going. He was my finest Fortress Guardsdwarf. there was a major bug or something because he never slept, ate, drank or moved except when goblin raiders came, at which point he would spring into action with his empty crossbow (he never reloaded or got new bolts) and beat half the invading goblin force to death. When all the goblins were disposed of he would just sit there in the place he was when the last goblin died until the next goblin ambush came. Weird.

I find it telling that his name is an exclamation followed by a phonetic expression of what he does, from the gobbo's point of view.

Awsum

[Summoner]

I had a dwarf named Patman and i made a office for him but i wasn't watching and 3 bears somehow got in and i looked and saw Patman broke his arms and legs but the 3 bears were dead and blood all over. I dont know how he did it but he killed 3 bears with his hands 0-0.

[ManaUser]

I find it telling that his name is an exclamation followed by a phonetic expression of what he does, from the gobbo's point of view.

Funny, I thought it meant Test Crystal. Though in the tongue of the Goblins, it might be interpreted as Angry Ilzas.

[Vampire Penguin]

I have a former Sheriff with brain damage, one eye, and spinal damage who takes walks around the outside of my fortress. Being the badass he is, he saved quite a few people from Fire Imps; even one on the brink of death, who is now down to only two yellow injuries.

[nil]

I got a guy with a bad spine, one eye, and a 115 kills...  or, for a different type of scarring, in one of the last Sparkgear games we had a champion marksdwarf with two full screen of friends, every last one of which was dead from orcs, magma, drowning, or a tantrum spiral (well after he survived all of them)

[LegoLord]

Once, on a freezing mountain/glacier map, anyone who spent significant time outdoors wound up with permanent nervous damage. Some of them who stayed out particularly long wound up with random limbs or body parts mangled.  It was not uncommon for a civilian to suddenly bleed to death while in his room, sleeping, from wounds they got outside.

The most awesome dwarf imaginable would be a one-armed, legless, artifact-adamantine-sword wielding champion swordsdwarf with all facial features except for his mouth and throat removed.  Basically, a torso with a round, bearded lump and long, pointy stick poking out of it.