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[stormtemplar]

So I was playing my peasantry fortress (Spend zero points on embark.) and I got this message: ónul Kosothosing, expedition leader cancels Make wooden Barrel: Unconscious. So I assumed he fell asleep, but then I saw what looked like him and one of my yak calfs fighting. I checked the reports and this is what I found: The yak calf gores the expedition leader in the upper body, breaking the middle spine's bone. Can he recover from this? It didn't say anything about nerve damage so I dunno if it's just the broken bone, but for the time being, my expedition leader is useless since he keeps passing out from pain. T.T

Butchering time

Anyone else ever have something like this happen (It was tame too t.t)

[glinmaleldur]

yes. just lost a legendary bowyer to a yak. usually happens when they are hungry i think.
is you have nothing on embark, you will lose your dwarf to infection before you get a hospital set up. you don't need a hospital, but you will need cloth, buckets, soap, thread probably, plaster probably, traction bench likely, and if you get all that, i've never had a dwarf with spinal damage walk again. I did have a dwarf with feet claim all the food in the fortress which he couldn't eat because he was too injured, causing starvation and making all the dwarves swarm the caravan when it arrived, leading to massive casualties when a siege showed up. by the time the tantrum spiral and ensuing punishments were finished i had lost 50 dwarves. so you might want to leave him for dead if you don't have any food. or at least keep your eye on what food and drink he is claiming.

[stormtemplar]

Well he seems to be conscious now, do infections occur even if there are no open wounds? His middle spine is red but everything else is white. There's no way I can get cloth or a hospital in any way, I still have yet to penetrate the aquifer. I just bought a pick and some materials from the caravan with the stupid amount of plants I gathered (Basically stripped my side of the river of edible vegetation for 9 months.)

[Loud Whispers]

Did you set multiple/a large meeting point? If you don't, they will cluster around together, and the animals don't like it when this happens...

[Wannazzaki]

I read the title, i assumed something pornographic. I am sorely disappointed.

Right...spinal injuries may or may not result in unrecoverable nerve damage, i HAVE had random rogue tame animals, it baffles me too.

[Scelly9]

I read the title, i assumed something pornographic. I am sorely disappointed.

Funny, I assumed fire.

[stormtemplar]

I think the latter is more dwarfy, I think I might burn the animal once I penetrate the frigging aquifer and get to lava.

[Azure]

Designate pastures and assign livestock to it so overcrowding doesn't occur. http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Grazer has the approx. size you will want to assign.

[glinmaleldur]

do infections occur even if there are no open wounds?

Not 100% sure on that, but if you look at the health screen in the dwarf's (z) menu, you can scroll from left to right and see if he has any infections and what treatment he needs, assuming he's been diagnosed.