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[Clumsy Robot]

I'm still running my first fortress. It's finally gone over sixty dorfs, since goblins have been pretty efficient in keeping our numbers down. I don't have any particularly interesting projects at the moment; I'm just expanding slightly and making sure my happy dwarves don't randomly run out of food again.

Our increases in population seems to be due to finally having a few soldiers that don't die after their first engagement. I've had more than a couple champions who reached that skill level without killing a single goblin who die off twice as fast as my recruits.

Looking over my units, I realized that I can't really remember who individual dwarves are anymore. I named a few of them according to their jobs or the like. Then I noticed one of my soldiers. Ten noticable kills, though none of them recent. It seems clear why: he has no eyes.

I looked at the wounds screen for a moment, unsure if there was something I should be doing with the situation. My hands moved on their own, opening up his profile and giving him a new name.

Zatoichi.


How do I see to it that this handicapable dwarf becomes a great boon to my fortress? Neither him or my one-lunged Spearmaster seem to be dying on their patrols and my brain-damaged guy has been dealing with every ambush we've had, so that's something, but as far as I know he won't spar or drink. Is there anything a novice such as myself can do?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Station him in your entrance. Give the brain the [SIGHT] token in /raw/body_default. Have fun.

[Retro]

Dwarves with any amount of brain damage will no longer spar - if you want them to again, you have to use a 3rd-party tool to heal them.

[numerobis]

Make him the captain of the guard.  Being blind, the beatings he'll administer won't be as lethal, nor will he train in the barracks anymore to get stronger.

[InsanityPrelude]

Eyes are part of the brain now?

[assimilateur]

Station him in your entrance. Give the brain the [SIGHT] token in /raw/body_default. Have fun.

Why? I thought blind dwarves had no problem fighting or working, as long as they've been able to deal with the phantom pain. If the OP's blind dwarf is passing out, then he needs to make him train at the gym (pump operating) or in bookkeeping.

[sonerohi]

Toady has actually made it so blind dwarves cannot see properly. There's a video on DFMA of someone's blind crossbowdwarf trying to shoot at an archery target for practice, and just shooting in a circle around himself. I'd imagine that melee dwarves would have extreme difficulties in finding their targets also.

[Clumsy Robot]

He's doing fine from what I can see. He hasn't had any issues with pain.

Eyes are part of the brain now?

Whoops, thought that dwarves wouldn't spar if they're injured at all. My mistake. Well, he isn't a blind swordsdwarf yet, this gives me a chance to fix him.

[Retro]

Toady has actually made it so blind dwarves cannot see properly. There's a video on DFMA of someone's blind crossbowdwarf trying to shoot at an archery target for practice, and just shooting in a circle around himself. I'd imagine that melee dwarves would have extreme difficulties in finding their targets also.

If I recall correctly, I think blindness works so that dwarves can 'see' in the eight squares (ten? not sure about up/down) immediately surrounding them. So melee dwarves should be about to do fine in battle as long as they're not against ranged enemies.

[Sysice]

He'll do almost entirely fine, but keep in mind that total blindness will affect skill rolls, accuracy, and I think damage.

[assimilateur]

If I recall correctly, I think blindness works so that dwarves can 'see' in the eight squares (ten? not sure about up/down) immediately surrounding them. So melee dwarves should be about to do fine in battle as long as they're not against ranged enemies.

How about blind civilians? Will they be able to path correctly?

[SkyRender]

Toady has actually made it so blind dwarves cannot see properly. There's a video on DFMA of someone's blind crossbowdwarf trying to shoot at an archery target for practice, and just shooting in a circle around himself. I'd imagine that melee dwarves would have extreme difficulties in finding their targets also.

You mention something that awesome(ly tragic) and don't even link to it?  What kind of Dwarf are you?

[Sir Iryn]

Toady has actually made it so blind dwarves cannot see properly. There's a video on DFMA of someone's blind crossbowdwarf trying to shoot at an archery target for practice, and just shooting in a circle around himself. I'd imagine that melee dwarves would have extreme difficulties in finding their targets also.

I gotta see this...

Anyone have the link?

[assimilateur]

Lightning the Blind Crossbow Champion

[Sir Iryn]

He's a champion too..

Should've named him Eagle-eye.

http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/eagle-eye-smith.html?cid=vplayer_robot-chicken_eagle-eye-smith

I can't be the only one who thought of this.