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[Amperzand]

I have just come to the realization that DF is a world in which the elderly could legitimately reminisce about the days when they hadn't figured houses out yet and occasionally hunted dinosaurs.

[TheBiggerFish]

Except the dinosaurs are actually leftovers from before time started.

[Saiko Kila]

To me all this "before time" business was always a metaphor. It was more a belief than reality, similar to people who believe that Earth is 6 thousand years old or so. I read time as "sanctioned, recorded and official history".  After all the land modelling, erosion and all, didn't happen overnight, right?

[Reverie]

Except the dinosaurs are actually leftovers from before time started.

Did you just make a reference to the film title 'Land Before Time', specifically?

[TheBiggerFish]

Except the dinosaurs are actually leftovers from before time started.

Did you just make a reference to the film title 'Land Before Time', specifically?

No.
Just to worldgen/FBs.

[Bumber]

OK, here's a weird one. Spring arrived, the military squads rotated, and suddenly... a crapload of deaths. Here's who died: three pets, four stray (tamed) weasels, and four citizens. They died all over the map, above ground and underground, and all apparently at the same time. There was no combat log, no "interrupted by...", no cave-ins, no syndromes that I'm aware of, no warning of any kind. The only thing that connects them is that they were all performers, though I don't remember if they were active at the time, or whether they were in my (very crowded) inn or the temple Weirdly, three of the four were in my fortress guard. The fortress guard is identical to my other three crossbow squads except they've been assigned (unavailable, as yet) featherwood rather than steel crossbows. The fourth casualty was a swordsman. They weren't even all dwarves! Two were human! What the hell is going on?! Maybe they were all part of the same performing group, all very old, and simultaneously died of old age with the pets and weasels? Or there's some kind of unknown syndrome going around the tavern, passed by the occasional brawl or poisoned drink?

Very confused. Anyway, I have a siege to deal with now.

Armok did some Spring cleaning.

Someone built an AI script that plays DF. How long before it breaks free and drowns us all in magma?

[mgotthard]

Speaking of cooking, why do dwarves think that mixing everything with tallow results in an edible dish?

It does, though.  McDonalds chips contain beef tallow for flavour.  Tallow makes everything better.

[EBannion]

OK, here's a weird one. Spring arrived, the military squads rotated, and suddenly... a crapload of deaths. Here's who died: three pets, four stray (tamed) weasels, and four citizens. They died all over the map, above ground and underground, and all apparently at the same time. There was no combat log, no "interrupted by...", no cave-ins, no syndromes that I'm aware of, no warning of any kind. The only thing that connects them is that they were all performers, though I don't remember if they were active at the time, or whether they were in my (very crowded) inn or the temple Weirdly, three of the four were in my fortress guard. The fortress guard is identical to my other three crossbow squads except they've been assigned (unavailable, as yet) featherwood rather than steel crossbows. The fourth casualty was a swordsman. They weren't even all dwarves! Two were human! What the hell is going on?! Maybe they were all part of the same performing group, all very old, and simultaneously died of old age with the pets and weasels? Or there's some kind of unknown syndrome going around the tavern, passed by the occasional brawl or poisoned drink?

Very confused. Anyway, I have a siege to deal with now.

If one of them was a dwarf, you should be able to build a slab for them, even if they didn't live in your fort. The slab should say what they supposedly died of.

If you ca'n't do that, write down on eo f their names and then use the Legends Viewer to look up their cause of death.

[pikachu17]

OK, here's a weird one. Spring arrived, the military squads rotated, and suddenly... a crapload of deaths. Here's who died: three pets, four stray (tamed) weasels, and four citizens. They died all over the map, above ground and underground, and all apparently at the same time. There was no combat log, no "interrupted by...", no cave-ins, no syndromes that I'm aware of, no warning of any kind. The only thing that connects them is that they were all performers, though I don't remember if they were active at the time, or whether they were in my (very crowded) inn or the temple Weirdly, three of the four were in my fortress guard. The fortress guard is identical to my other three crossbow squads except they've been assigned (unavailable, as yet) featherwood rather than steel crossbows. The fourth casualty was a swordsman. They weren't even all dwarves! Two were human! What the hell is going on?! Maybe they were all part of the same performing group, all very old, and simultaneously died of old age with the pets and weasels? Or there's some kind of unknown syndrome going around the tavern, passed by the occasional brawl or poisoned drink?

Very confused. Anyway, I have a siege to deal with now.

maybe toady secretly adding lovecraftian stuff. maybe you have a horrifying monster living in the caverns that is killing people with pure thought

[nik the dwarf]

First of Spring is the day when things die of old age. Death by old age does not give any announcement or report (far as I know).

[Button]

OK, here's a weird one. Spring arrived, the military squads rotated, and suddenly... a crapload of deaths. Here's who died: three pets, four stray (tamed) weasels, and four citizens. They died all over the map, above ground and underground, and all apparently at the same time. There was no combat log, no "interrupted by...", no cave-ins, no syndromes that I'm aware of, no warning of any kind. The only thing that connects them is that they were all performers, though I don't remember if they were active at the time, or whether they were in my (very crowded) inn or the temple Weirdly, three of the four were in my fortress guard. The fortress guard is identical to my other three crossbow squads except they've been assigned (unavailable, as yet) featherwood rather than steel crossbows. The fourth casualty was a swordsman. They weren't even all dwarves! Two were human! What the hell is going on?! Maybe they were all part of the same performing group, all very old, and simultaneously died of old age with the pets and weasels? Or there's some kind of unknown syndrome going around the tavern, passed by the occasional brawl or poisoned drink?

Very confused. Anyway, I have a siege to deal with now.

The Spring turnover is when deaths of old age are calculated. It's nothing to be alarmed about.

My guess would be that the age of randomly-generated immigrants is based on the ages of the civilization's base race, not the race of the immigrant in question. That would explain why both of your humans dropped dead in the same year - they were generated at ages old by dwarven standards, but ancient by human standards.

[Bumber]

Someone built an AI script that plays DF. How long before it breaks free and drowns us all in magma?

It's started butchering human poets. Not much longer.

[khearn]

Dwarves really like keeping stuff together in barrels/bins. It's hard to get them to split things up again.

[khearn]

I have never seen such a whiny goblin.

I earlier versions, trying to pit a goblin thief would usually result in its escape, but goblin soldiers were quite docile when being pitted. But that's not what you just experienced, so things have clearly changed,

[CaptainMcClellan]

WELL a cave crocodile just climbed up my well rope without breaking it. How does this happen?