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[Kilroy the Grand]

Will vampires have a different bite attack than regular dwarfs? Or will they have more levels in biting? Will different werebeasts have different skills, such as werecabybaras being excellent swimmers?

[EmperorJon]

Will Vampires require periodic blood feeding, and if so, does it matter which species?


(Vampire gets hungry -> pulls lever to dispense goblin -> nomnomslurp)

[Quatch]

Let me just say, that having a dwarf who has not seen another dwarf for a full year is should be plenty eligible for being "Missing".  Even miners and hunters come back for meals, after all.  I wouldn't call someone THAT isolated being missing unreasonable or going overboard at all!  You'd have to really WORK at it to trigger it, after all.

Finally, a use for those children that run around and follow people to their jobs. They are part of the dwarven secret police, keeping tabs on everyone's location.

[Greiger]

I would be a little worried about my egg layer keepers but that's partially a modding problem.

Egg laying civs will take nest boxes before the animals you are trying to breed do so, I often have to lock one resident in a little room with 30 years worth of food and a well to take care of the animals, and handle one side of the airlock.  With folks not seen for a while disappearing it might be problematic for that.  ....Though I suppose I could just install some windows or fortifications so that the regular fortress residents can see in.

Seems unnecessarily cruel for the poor sap locked in with the smelly beasties though if they can see their friends and family so close...

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

I have a great many question about this new updates for vampires.

Firstly, can a gobrin become a vampire too or just only certain species can be vampire. In that same vein can you encounter vampiric forgotten beasts?

Secondly, how does feeding work? Will the feeding for vampire be similar to how normal dorf eats. (Some vampire canon holds that vampire detests to eat food, etc.) If so, will the feeding always cause death or will it depend on how hungry the vampire is for blood? Essentially, will the time between feedings impact how much blood the vampire takes, and if not all feedings kill, will the vampire attack just cause unconsciousness?

As an aside will the personality of the vampiric dorf also impact how it chooses to feed. I mean essentially, will an angry vampiric dorf be more prone to drain all their 'live'-stock of their blood, and on the opposite spectrum a very nice vampiric dorf would be more apt to avoid taking too much blood from a victim.

In relation to the vampire wounds, will it work how in most vampire canon that the blood will regenerate for the one feeded on over time and if so, would multiple feedings on the same dorf in too short a time create more risk for death, and then to pull back to my questions about personality, one might expect a friendlier vampiric dorf to try to avoid feeding on the same dorf too regularly.

[Footkerchief]

Will Vampires require periodic blood feeding, and if so, does it matter which species?

How urgent is the need for a vampire to feed? Will they starve to death or grow weaker if they don't feed for a long time? Or is it more like a somemthing they are just driven to do without any real benefits to themselves other than filling their bloodlust?

Nothing special yet.

[Organum]

But that doesn't matter because you won't have to wait much longer.

All the same, the list grows shorter and it's exciting to be drawing close to the end of this process.

Yes yes, yes yes yes yes. :|

[monk12]

But that doesn't matter because you won't have to wait much longer.

All the same, the list grows shorter and it's exciting to be drawing close to the end of this process.

Yes yes, yes yes yes yes. :|

Hooray, it'll be right on time for Christmas

[Cruxador]

periodic blood feeding

At first glance, I read that as "period blood feeding". That theoretically should be a possibility, but I doubt most of us would want to deal with it.

Makes me wonder about modding possibilities, though.

[Mel_Vixen]

Hooray, it'll be right on time for Christmas

You know the world ends on the 21st according to the maya?

[Hiiri]

Hooray, it'll be right on time for Christmas

You know the world ends on the 21st according to the maya?

Isn't that supposed to be next year? If not, Toady better hurry, so we can all die happy.

[Dsarker]

Hooray, it'll be right on time for Christmas

You know the world ends on the 21st according to the maya?

Isn't that supposed to be next year? If not, Toady better hurry, so we can all die happy.

Next year, and the Maya didn't think the world was going to end anytime soon. More like several million years from now.

[G-Flex]

Hooray, it'll be right on time for Christmas

You know the world ends on the 21st according to the maya?

Correction: According to a bunch of revisionists wanting to make money off the Maya. The Maya themselves never made any such prediction at all. It's a hoax, like the moon-landing-is-fake people. Shouldn't be a surprise, though.

[DG]

I wonder if assigning five war animals to every dwarf in your fort would give a vampire problems. The second they tried to get a drink they'd be swarmed by tens dogs, both the owners dogs and their own. That also made me think about animals and their superior senses being able to detect non-human non-dwarven creatures masquerading as dwarves because they smell differently. But from what I know of vampires I don't remember anything about them having problems with animals blowing their cover.

[YetAnotherStupidDorf]

That also made me think about animals and their superior senses being able to detect non-human non-dwarven creatures masquerading as dwarves because they smell differently.

AFAIK only smell-related thing implemented in DF as of now is miasma.