Yet another question, more or less a follow up to my last one. I've had a spreading infection in my fortress, but I managed to contain it and after burying all the pets that died, most of the dwarves are happy again.
But although he was treated, my best swords dwarf still has an infection. He won't go to the hospital, so in the long run he'll just die from it.
So I want to get him injured again, maybe then he'll get a proper treatment for the infection as well. I set him up in one-on-one fights with a few (armed and armored) goblins that I had caught, but he just trampled them in the ground in an instant, without even getting a blister (his nickname isn't Goblin Gnasher for no reason - he's basically a one-man army).
Any suggestions how I could injure him enough to get him into the hospital without killing him? I don't want to drop him down somewhere, risking that he has to use a crutch afterwards, if I can avoid it.
Is there a chance that this'll work at all (i.e. will his infection be treated if I get him into the hospital somehow)?
set him to his own squad. make his uniform naked, so he takes his armor off. set up an upright spear trap using training spears. link this trap to some sort of repeater (pressure plate in a busy area, level pull on repeat, etc. make sure to build this out of the way. station the lone dwarf on the trap.
I'll try that, thank you. Might be a good setup for getting some volunteers for medical training, too.
Really, spreading infection? I didn't think it was in .31.25.
Soap and wound cleaning labor and ... dorf's "disease resistance" parameter are involved.
Well, that's what seemed to be happening. My hospital is fully stocked including soap, buckets, and access to water, and I have four full-time medics/nurses.
I realised that something was going on when I suddenly caught one of my dwarves in a cage trap. He was spreading miasma because of rotting feet. I looked around and found a few cats with the same syndrome. After that, I butchered a whole lot of kittens and puppies and assigned the rest to pens on the surface, 3-4 animals/pen, and tried to separate the ill animals. But in some of the "healthy" pens an animal would get ill and then at least another animal would get ill as well (a few of the pens died out completely), while in other pens, none of the animals got ill. A lot of my dwarves were ill, too.
I only opened up the first cavern layer and I completely secured an area there, nothing can come in, not even flying FBs. While this whole
mess FUN was happening, tho, I had to dig a new cistern for my hospital well (luckily, I have a second well in my meeting area) because a child had fallen in.
In the process, I had to open up a wall to the unsecured part of the cavern, so I stationed a squad there and restricted traffic in the area. After it was all done, without any FBs coming near, I let my squad go. After that, there was suddenly a splatter of FB goo* where the squad had been. It was on top of a newly built floor tile, so it must've gotten there while the squad was standing there. I looked at all dwarves that entered the area during the building process and sure enough, one of my squad members had rotten feet, too. So I assume that he must've left the infectious goo there.
My conclusion is that somehow a cat got infected, maybe before the cavern was closed off (the first dwarf that got ill was a legendary planter, with all hauling skills but food disabled, who probably never had been to the cavern layer), and left piles of infectious goo for other animals and dwarves to step in, who then in turn got infected and infectious.
Alternatively, I'm imagining things. I wouldn't exclude that outright, I've been ill at home with nothing much else to do than playing DF, so I might've overdone it a bit...
tl;dr: But it looked like a spreading infection. So, there.
* An FB who is still around, btw, so it couldn't have been from the FBs I already killed. That was my first guess, that an FB corpse was causing the infection.
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