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[Eviltyphoon]

So, I got the first migrant wave in my fortress today, and they entered the map right near my chasm. Needless to say, not all migrants made it. One of them was a pump operator, who is now lying wounded near the edge of my map. No problem you say, he'll just go and rest in a bed till he is healed, but no, here's what he does:



Now, the problem is, that there isn't actually a batman anywhere near him... I tried stationing my military near him with harass dangerous wild animals on, but they just stand there...

Any idea how to fix this?

[Imp]

Batmen can fly, so it's likely there's a batman a few z-levels up or down, within notice range of your injured fellow.

He's hurt to bad to walk, so he's trying to rest on the ground while he waits to be rescued - for someone to take him to an unoccupied bed, or one you've assigned him.

Sometimes I've noticed that my dwarves won't appear to notice an injured one until that one gets thirsty or hungry - then they feed/water then and then the hurt one is finally carried to a bed.


Short term answer for the batman, get some crossbows on those guarding troops, so they can reach the flighty batman and force combat.

[Eviltyphoon]

I checked the skies as well, the closest batman was flying 6 Z-levels and about 30 tiles away... But, the good news is, that from the moment I made this topic, he suddenly realised he had nothing to fear and ran to a bed...

[Aspgren]

 It's a bug. I posted this just now: "...I noticed that in spite of being in bed, she would not rest. She cried and shouted and spammed me that she was being harassed by a goblin.."

 I'm not sure why. But when dwarves are scared and pass out they can get stuck with imaginary assaulters. You're lucky he could snap out of it and run to a bed ... if they had to drag him, you might have had to execute him just to shut him the elf up.

[DarkDragon]

I had a dwarf once that was so traumatized by getting ambushed by goblins, she spent every moment after that incident lying in her bed screaming that the goblins were gonna get her.

No goblins were still alive or free on the map, and she was still screaming about the goblins.

I did have a few prisoners so I thought maybe tossing them into the magma would make her feel better.

Not two seconds after tossing the last goblin into the magma she got up out of bed, and promptly bled to death.

Very strange.

[Quietust]

Your dwarf is having nightmares. Happens all the time.