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[Subdane]

I was just wondering, are you not supposed to recieve an message and the game pauses when an forgotten beast/uninvited guest arrives?

I noticed a message in the log saying,
the forgotten beast is no longer enraged! followed by
cave swallow man is engulfed in flames! over and over again.

I quickly sealed off my fortress from the caverns, but still its annoying that I havent recieved a message and cannot find the FB in the creature log...

[Yag Alone]

You do not get the message when the beast arrive in the area, but only when it enter an explored area.

I have 2-3 FBs wandering around sealed caverns layers (those two facts are quite linked), and I get at least one of those messages per season whenever one of them appears to wander in an explored area

[Subdane]

Ah great thx for the info
Guess I now know what my militia got in store.... FIRE!

[Quietust]

You do not get the message when the beast arrive in the area, but only when it enter an explored area.

I have 2-3 FBs wandering around sealed caverns layers (those two facts are quite linked), and I get at least one of those messages per season whenever one of them appears to wander in an explored area

You only get an announcement when a forgotten beast enters an explored area for the first time - otherwise, if it decided to pace back and forth between a revealed area and an unrevealed area, you'd get spammed with announcements. Thus, you've got quite a few more forgotten beasts than you realize...

[Yag Alone]

You only get an announcement when a forgotten beast enters an explored area for the first time - otherwise, if it decided to pace back and forth between a revealed area and an unrevealed area, you'd get spammed with announcements. Thus, you've got quite a few more forgotten beasts than you realize...

nah, I only have 6 of them (still alive) right now. Beside, only one of those is made of pure flame, and I've seen its announcement at least three time (a zoom to a burning area or a boiling lake is quite noticeable)

Perhaps the "announced" status is not saved... If the beast goes in an unexplored area before I save, then reappear after the reloading, maybe the announcement is replayed... I'll try it.

Or perhaps my fortress is quite buggy - I had a very strange mason mood today : the dwarf grabbed dozens and dozens of chalk stones... had to put him in a burrow to calm his chalkgasm, and he managed to build a 338K worth chalk hatch with 10 pages of chalk decorations :s

[YetAnotherStupidDorf]

Or perhaps my fortress is quite buggy - I had a very strange mason mood today : the dwarf grabbed dozens and dozens of chalk stones... had to put him in a burrow to calm his chalkgasm, and he managed to build a 338K worth chalk hatch with 10 pages of chalk decorations :s

This is strange, because usually this kind of bug is due to burrows. You are sure he was not assinged previously to other burrow?

[Yag Alone]

Or perhaps my fortress is quite buggy - I had a very strange mason mood today : the dwarf grabbed dozens and dozens of chalk stones... had to put him in a burrow to calm his chalkgasm, and he managed to build a 338K worth chalk hatch with 10 pages of chalk decorations :s

This is strange, because usually this kind of bug is due to burrows. You are sure he was not assinged previously to other burrow?

Spot on : A siege appeared during his mood, and my reaction -as always- was to set all civilians to the "run to the hills" burrow.

More on the "announcement" front : I tried my planned test and I got no announcement. Quietust is probably right, and it means that I have at least 7 of those unholy horrors lurking around...Fun

[Subdane]

Well my forgotten beast is dead. The question is, did it take out all of the swallow men before it died....