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[bluemotion]

I'm a very new player, only on my second fort. I have a decent grasp of most things (or at least I think I do), but I find myself confused...

In my first fort, I never had problems with miasma. But now, in my second fort, I just got a huge outbreak of it in my dining area! I don't even know why!

Why did it appear? How can I get rid of the stuff??

[Grumman]

Do you have any rotting corpses nearby? I'd look for vermin remains first, as cats have an annoying tendency to just dump them all over the fort.

[bluemotion]

No and no...The dining room had as yet been unused. I was still moving furniture in. There are a couple of rotting goats out near the front of the fort, but theyre nowhere near where the miasma spawned.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Perhaps your food is spoiling.

[bluemotion]

So I assume then that miasma is caused by rotting food or other foul stuff? I can't think of anthing that could have caused it, but oh well.

More importantly, how do I get rid of it? Does it go away on its own eventually?

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Miasma goes away eventually.

Things make miasma when they are rotting. Once they finish rotting, they stop producing miasma.

[bluemotion]

Understood...how much of a negative affect will it have on my fort in the meantime?

[chaoticag]

Sounds like a high traffic area, so possibly moderate, but as long as they are drunk, hardly working and eating in wonderful places, you should be fine.

[Grumman]

If you manage to find what is rotting, if you take it outside or destroy it (with magma or a trash compactor), it will stop producing miasma.

[JoshBrickstien]

This reminds my of my first fortress... I abandoned the fortress when I got miasma, I thought it was deadly. lulz. Then I looked at the wiki.... 

[ancistrus]

If you have cats, kill them. They kill vermin which rots and creates miasma.

[o_O[WTFace]]

 Keep in mind miasma can travel through stairs and stuff, there should be either rotten food or bits of dead creature lying around.  Its possible someone moved it already, or I guess it could be dead vermin although I haven't seen vermin rot in this version. 

[Rvlion]

Try designating a special Refuge stockpile in a specially dug room with a door. All dead vermin will be placed there and rot, while the door will keep away Miasma from the Fortress.

[rodya_mirov]

Or have a refuse stockpile on the surface, where magma can't be generated.

Killing vermin is a *good* thing; you don't want them eating up all your food.

[Jumpp]

Normally your dwarves will quickly move rotting stuff to a refuse stockpile.  If they don't, the cause is most likely that your refuse stockpiles are all full.  This fault is more common than it used to be, since vermin corpses no longer rot away.  Conserve space with a quantum refuse stockpile, possibly combined with an atomsmasher.  If, like me, you prefer to avoid interacting with the aboveground, then make sure you use airlocks at your underground refuse stockpiles to contain the miasma.