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[MickEfinn]

I'll admit I haven't played since the pre-March bee release. So check me on this.

I have a little mine over to the west of my wagon when I started out. Nothing much, just to get some tin and marble. I was experimenting with the above ground walls and such, and I became a bit concerned when badger men started trickling around my crude little startup fort. But they weren't aggressive, and hadn't harmed anyone, so I figured we could let bygones be bygones... until I had some walls and crossbows. Then something odd happened. they were getting enraged and stopping, enraged and stopping. Then they took over my mine to the west. There must be 15+ in there at the moment.

Is this normal? Are they making a nest/den? Should I be worried?

[Oliolli]

Have you been around on the forums after the release? Badgers are nasty. They're like land-carp.

[Loud Whispers]

THERE IS NOTHING TO BE FEARED.

OPEN THE GATES AND LET THE FRIENDLY BADGER PEOPLE INSIDE.

YOU DO NOT SUSPECT.

[MickEfinn]

That's the thing, they aren't aggressive at all, no one is harmed, and my walls aren't complete. They circle carefully around my little fellas, and since they don't steal or anything, or attack anyone, I've left them alone. I'm not sure about why they are going in and out of being enraged, or why they have decided to live in my 9x9 little tin mine, but I was wondering if they were starting a tribe or something. Could I enslave them, teach them to kill my foes? So much to learn anew.

[Keldane]

That's the thing, they aren't aggressive at all, no one is harmed, and my walls aren't complete. They circle carefully around my little fellas, and since they don't steal or anything, or attack anyone, I've left them alone. I'm not sure about why they are going in and out of being enraged, or why they have decided to live in my 9x9 little tin mine, but I was wondering if they were starting a tribe or something. Could I enslave them, teach them to kill my foes? So much to learn anew.

Hmm...

Spoiler: Game Mechanics Answer (click to show/hide)

Badgers, Badger People, Honey Badgers, and Giant Badgers all have the [PRONE_TO_RAGE:X] tag in their RAW files, where X is presumed to be a percent chance that they will become enraged when encountering a threat. My personal suspicion is that this also determines the likelihood of staying enraged. Badgers, badger people, and giant badgers all have [PRONE_TO_RAGE:1] and typically enrage then calm down rapidly, while honey badgers have [PRONE_TO_RAGE:10], and are known to roll up and maul giant jaguars and the like.

Sadly, there's currently no way to employ them... but in theory, with some modding, and a utility like DFusion, you could make them a part of your fort. Give the modding section a glance and you may just find you have yourself some of the most badass surface warriors ever.

[Cruxador]

Tribes and clusters of creatures generally pick a place to chill, and stay there for a while. I'd say just abandon that mine until/unless they leave. If you're lucky they'll deal with things like sieges and titans for you.

[Frelus]

Damn, this is so typically for DF:
"Badgermen have taken over my Mine! What should I do?"
Next post:
"Is there a way to weaponize them?"

I think you should let them live there, until you can somehow manage to get them up a cliff, and then throw them 20 z-levels down to sever their bodyparts and make badgermen crowns.
As a sign of your superiority over them.
greetz

[MickEfinn]

After being scared out of the mine by a turkey gobbler and his hen, the badger people have decided to loiter around the refuse pile to the north now.
Amazing the little touches of the game can be.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Try to catch them, and put them in a pit. Drop in unarmed, unarmored goblins, cavies, and other weak creatures you find. Since badgerpeople are intelligent, they will learn. They will become super-powerful badger people. Then you can release them on sieges. Scary, no? Correct about the no: Their punches and bites won't pierce armor, bowgoblins will make badgerpeople no-longer-walking arrow repositories very quickly, and aside from making them more likely to attack, enraging won't do anything.

[i2amroy]

Enraging also makes creatures hit harder with their attacks then they would if they weren't enraged. No bonuses to hitting or anything, but the damage that they deal with attacks is increased. Not that it still will help them that much against armored foes, though it will increase their capabilities against unarmored ones.

[hudders]

I corralled some into my (dry) moat and periodically drop goblins on them. The moat is just deep enough to cripple the goblins and give the badger men a chance.