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[Naryar]

So, I've fought and beaten a forgotten beast with noxious secretions. Now a good bunch of my dwarves are "dizzy" since a few DF months. It seems to slow them down generally, and is annoying.

What I am supposed to do ? I just made an hospital, most of the dizzy higher ups (these who fought the FB) went and rest in it, and my chief medical dwarf went and diagnosed patients. He doesn't seems to make anything more if clean a bit of forgotten beast blood.

I also built a pit, and dwarves are not cleaning. Do I need soap or something ? Isn't soap bugged ?

I'm going to try a dwarf bath.

[GrueSlayer]

Put the dizzy dwarves into a small chamber, wash with magma. magma is a wonderful disinfectant/antibacterial agent.

[Naryar]

Put the dizzy dwarves into a small chamber, wash with magma. magma is a wonderful disinfectant/antibacterial agent.

Should have expected this. You ask something on this forum, first answer is bound to include MAGMA as an answer.

So, does anyone has a constructive answer ?

[PCpaste]

The only way I can think to solve FB blood is by making a waterfall above a floor grate, feeding into a sewer system or back into itself. Kind of like a shower, except it also makes them very happy from the mist.

Get back on me on how it works if you try it. It is of course, just a theory. You could call it !!SCIENCE!!, if you will.

Just make the involved guinnea pigs scientist dwarves sign a paper saying that the devine overlord is not responsible if they somehow drown.

[Sphalerite]

There's no cure for dizzyness, but it should go away eventually.  This may take a while.

Your higher priority should be finding and cleaning all the forgotten beast extract and blood.  Build wells, dwarves will clean themselves at wells without needing soap.  Check the floors for pool/smears/spatters of forgotten beast contamination.  When you find it, you can manually remove it by building floors or other constructions or buildings on top of it, then removing them.

[Newbunkle]

You could try one of those 3/7 water-filled channels across a busy hallway. They should automatically get washed off as they pass through it.

[Urist McGyver]

Put the dizzy dwarves into a small chamber, wash with magma. magma is a wonderful disinfectant/antibacterial agent.

Should have expected this. You ask something on this forum, first answer is bound to include MAGMA as an answer.

So, does anyone has a constructive answer ?

Construct a magma shower. Pump the magma to a Z level up, and release when the dwarf is under it.

[ledgekindred]

There's no cure for dizzyness, but it should go away eventually.  This may take a while.

There's always a possibility that the syndrome is permanent.  If it's already been a few in-game months, I'm afraid this might be the case since every FB syndrome I've seen are quickly fatal, wear off in a short time or permanent. 

In which case yes, the "cure" is magma.  Or spike traps.  Or walling them off. 

If it is permanent, then you definitely try to find and clean up any remaining FB goop or the rest of your dwarves could become permanently dizzy as well.

[Urist McGyver]

Or you can make those dwarves fortress guards. They will never catch law infractors

[Naryar]

I am not killing my best dwarves and starting seven !

The baron maybe, because he's really damn useless, but the rest are my nobles, overseers and other useful miners/engravers/woodcutters/etc.

[ledgekindred]

That's the thing about forgotten beasts usually.  Your best military are the ones who are going to get there first and going to be the ones to get spit in the face with the crap that makes their skin melt off and then go permanently insane.

If you can't bear to slaughter them, then you might have to put up with them being permanently dizzy.  Give them a couple more seasons to see if it wears off but honestly I've never seen a FB syndrome that lasted that long that wasn't permanent.

[Naryar]

Well, some did not recovered, but they still thwarted a gobbo siege, so i'm fine with dizziness.

[Urist McGyver]

If they're valuable, then just keep them. It you hinder the fort, but its better than having loads of !!FUN!! with a forgotten beast that savaged the fort.

[Naryar]

They're valuable, excepted for the baron. That is ON BREAK since two years. Despite having a room fit for a king.

It's kinda sad because he was my main engraver and a legendary miner as well. As well as general all-purpose noble, broker, bookkeeper, manager, etc.

[Urist McGyver]

Some nobles such as the baron, the count, the duke and the monarch have a [LAZY] tag that prevents them from doing any work.

http://df.magmawiki.com/nobles