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Title: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 11, 2011, 05:54:22 pm
So, this Forgotten Beast appears in my fortress.  The last line of its description was "Beware its deadly dust!"  Naturally, I completely ignored this and sent my entire military to strike down the fell monstrosity.  That, as it turns out, was a mistake.  Everyone who came into contact with the "deadly dust" very quickly came down with advanced rot in all their skin, and turned into walking clouds of miasma.  Fortunately, there do not seem to be any other effects, but it's really too early to tell whether or not my entire military will suddenly collapse with spinal rot or something.  :-\

EDIT:  This just in!  I looked at one of the dwarves who had been in contact with the dust, and saw on the wound screen that pretty much all her muscles are completely numb.  (Also, her leg is broken, and the wound was allowed to fester, so she's not likely to live much longer.  :( )
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Bloxace on August 11, 2011, 06:10:21 pm
Bad stories have been told about these kind of syndromes. If it is not too late, quarantine those effected by it, and seal off areas that have it in them. Then wait to see if it is fatal.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Gizogin on August 11, 2011, 06:15:30 pm
Quote from: Bloxace on August 11, 2011, 06:10:21 pm
If it is not too late, quarantine those effected by it, and seal off areas that have it in them.

Actually, the dust evaporated pretty much instantaneously, so there's no residue left.  That, at least, is a blessing.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Lagslayer on August 11, 2011, 06:16:35 pm
Exactly which parts of the body are rotting? If they are going numb all over, then this disease was a blessing, as your dwarves are now immune to pain.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Max176 on August 11, 2011, 06:17:53 pm
Capture this thing. Now, if it still alive. Then use it to make ALL OF YOUR DWARVES IMMUNE TO PAIN! How wonderfully useful.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Gizogin on August 11, 2011, 06:21:48 pm
Quote from: Lagslayer on August 11, 2011, 06:16:35 pm
Exactly which parts of the body are rotting? If they are going numb all over, then this disease was a blessing, as your dwarves are now immune to pain.

The rotting parts are now largely done rotting, I guess numbness is stage two.  A few of the dwarves are still creating the occasional miasma cloud.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: sneakey pete on August 11, 2011, 07:51:12 pm
So their skin just rotted off? Jesus..
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Ultimuh on August 11, 2011, 07:59:10 pm
Quote from: sneakey pete on August 11, 2011, 07:51:12 pm
So their skin just rotted off? Jesus..

If I know these forums well enough.. Sooner or later, someone is going to draw art of skinless Dwarves.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: BeforeLifer on August 11, 2011, 08:03:51 pm
Ah gota love compound syptoms, first you get insted nercrosis and then everything that rots goes numb.
O_O
YOU GOT LIVING ZOMBIES :D
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Gergination on August 11, 2011, 08:04:48 pm
I had a FB with dust that caused every single body part to instantly fill with blood and simultaneously rot.

Those dwarves didn't last very long...
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Gizogin on August 11, 2011, 08:15:54 pm
Quote from: BeforeLifer on August 11, 2011, 08:03:51 pm
Ah gota love compound syptoms, first you get insted nercrosis and then everything that rots goes numb.
O_O
YOU GOT LIVING ZOMBIES :D

LEGENDARY CARP, YOU'RE RIGHT!  :o
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: franti on August 11, 2011, 08:25:36 pm
"Let's expose our military to zombie-dust so they can't feel pain. They don't NEED skin."
I'm 99% sure this is how Resident Evil started.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Bloxace on August 11, 2011, 09:11:47 pm
Resident Fortress: Armok Edition
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Gizogin on August 11, 2011, 09:13:42 pm
Quote from: franti on August 11, 2011, 08:25:36 pm
"Let's expose our military to zombie-dust so they can't feel pain. They don't NEED skin."

I'm sigging this.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: twwolfe on August 11, 2011, 09:16:41 pm
watch as there's a stage 3 that makes them go berserk, then start attacking and infecting other dwarves  ;D
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: sir_laser on August 11, 2011, 09:23:14 pm
From experience, your dwarves will either die due to paralysis (asphyxiation), cerebral necrosis, or be bedridden (unconscious aka eternal sleep).

Have fun! And don't forget to butcher the FB for meat!
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Gizogin on August 11, 2011, 09:30:48 pm
Quote from: sir_laser on August 11, 2011, 09:23:14 pm
Have fun! And don't forget to butcher the FB for meat!

WAY ahead of you.  It's already been made into *forgotten beast tallow roasts*.  They are delicious.

EDIT: We need to come up with a name for this.  Though it might be better to wait until I know exactly what it does.  BTW, as far as I can tell, it's not spreading (so no fortress full of skinless, immune-to-pain dwarves. Only the military are affected).
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Makigall on August 11, 2011, 10:15:07 pm
I had dust once that gave a dwarf brain rot.  He promptly headed back to the barracks to spar, all with a rotten brain.  I ended up losing the save to some dfhack mode changes to see if the syndrome was still active or not.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Camper2490 on August 12, 2011, 01:41:16 am
Illnesses like this are often referred to as kitten rot or kitten plague, as it easily infects small animals. Even though this disease causes numbness you should make quarantine priority one. Also check if it has a spatter effect, for this could spread the disease. If it's rotting their skin then its probably contact necrosis, and if spatter exposure is present it could begin to rot the newly exposed muscle layers.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: ZhangC1459 on August 12, 2011, 02:05:32 am
Quote from: Camper2490 on August 12, 2011, 01:41:16 am
Illnesses like this are often referred to as kitten rot or kitten plague, as it easily infects small animals. Even though this disease causes numbness you should make quarantine priority one. Also check if it has a spatter effect, for this could spread the disease. If it's rotting their skin then its probably contact necrosis, and if spatter exposure is present it could begin to rot the newly exposed muscle layers.

Pretty sure he said that the dust insta-evaporates and leaves no residue.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Camper2490 on August 12, 2011, 02:07:47 am
Quote from: ZhangC1459 on August 12, 2011, 02:05:32 am
Quote from: Camper2490 on August 12, 2011, 01:41:16 am
Illnesses like this are often referred to as kitten rot or kitten plague, as it easily infects small animals. Even though this disease causes numbness you should make quarantine priority one. Also check if it has a spatter effect, for this could spread the disease. If it's rotting their skin then its probably contact necrosis, and if spatter exposure is present it could begin to rot the newly exposed muscle layers.

Pretty sure he said that the dust insta-evaporates and leaves no residue.

Then fuck yeah zombie army
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 08:26:05 am
Quote from: Camper2490 on August 12, 2011, 02:07:47 am
Quote from: ZhangC1459 on August 12, 2011, 02:05:32 am
Quote from: Camper2490 on August 12, 2011, 01:41:16 am
Illnesses like this are often referred to as kitten rot or kitten plague, as it easily infects small animals. Even though this disease causes numbness you should make quarantine priority one. Also check if it has a spatter effect, for this could spread the disease. If it's rotting their skin then its probably contact necrosis, and if spatter exposure is present it could begin to rot the newly exposed muscle layers.

Pretty sure he said that the dust insta-evaporates and leaves no residue.

Then fuck yeah zombie army

Yeah, as far as I can tell, there's no way for this to spread beyond those caught in the actual dust clouds, leaving me with the nearest thing to A ZOMBIE ARMY!
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Walking miasma!
Post by: ledgekindred on August 12, 2011, 09:01:05 am
Quote from: Gizogin on August 11, 2011, 09:30:48 pm
EDIT: We need to come up with a name for this.  Though it might be better to wait until I know exactly what it does.  BTW, as far as I can tell, it's not spreading (so no fortress full of skinless, immune-to-pain dwarves. Only the military are affected).

This particular strain is the T-Virus, obviously.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: NRDL on August 12, 2011, 09:08:54 am
Someone really needs to make a "What Syndromes Are You Getting?"  thread.  I really hope it would be as fun as this thread.

Also, can your zombie army even fight properly? 
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 09:24:49 am
Quote from: NRDL on August 12, 2011, 09:08:54 am
Also, can your zombie army even fight properly? 

I haven't had a chance to test them yet.  Actually, if I'm honest, I'm hesitant to use them just yet.  I think I remember something about flesh rot causing instant death from blood loss in any actual combat.  They're sparring normally, which I take as a promising sign.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: NRDL on August 12, 2011, 09:30:04 am
OMG, if these dwarves somehow just stopped aging as well, you, my friend, have created the coolest fighting force in DF.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Putnam on August 12, 2011, 10:21:43 am
If there's necrosis all over the body, the doctors will wash it off with soap.

Then you're left with skeletons with the organs still intact.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 11:00:36 am
Quote from: Putnam on August 12, 2011, 10:21:43 am
If there's necrosis all over the body, the doctors will wash it off with soap.

Then you're left with skeletons with the organs still intact.

Quote from: Gizogin on August 11, 2011, 06:21:48 pm
The rotting parts are now largely done rotting

Also, they're skeletons with muscles and organs.  Just the skin is gone.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: ThatAussieGuy on August 12, 2011, 11:03:32 am
That's kinda awesome AND bad.  One the one hand; unfeeling skeleton army that kills on command.  On the other, no protective fat over the organs. 
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 11:28:56 am
So, I found out what was causing some of the miasma: many of my military dwarves (especially in my crossbow squad) are mothers who take their babies into battle with them.  Several of these babies were exposed to the FB dust, and were never taken to the hospital for treatment.  As a result, they are currently quivering lumps of rotten flesh, and they all have "severe blood loss" from it.  On the plus side, I tested my zombie army against some random cavern dwellers, and they didn't die instantly.  I'll keep you posted on the pain status.

EDIT: some of the miasma is also coming from a dog.  Bizarrely, only his paws are rotten.

EDIT 2: I just lost a dwarven baby to infection.  Not sure yet if it's from the FB rot or not.

EDIT 3: There goes another dwarven baby.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: ThatAussieGuy on August 12, 2011, 11:34:54 am
Pity it's not contagious - you could use the babies as infection vectors to keep churning out skeletal soldiers.  On the plus side, if they survive you could put them in the military when they grow up to increase the ranks of your skeletal horde.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 12:03:25 pm
Current death count to infection (from FB rot because doctors won't do anything for babies or animals):
2 babies  :(
1 puppy
1 cat
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Bloxace on August 12, 2011, 12:27:54 pm
Shame, because if the babies have military mothers they get used as meat shields.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: ledgekindred on August 12, 2011, 12:30:13 pm
Quote from: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 11:28:56 am
EDIT: some of the miasma is also coming from a dog.  Bizarrely, only his paws are rotten.

EDIT 2: I just lost a dwarven baby to infection.  Not sure yet if it's from the FB rot or not.

EDIT 3: There goes another dwarven baby.

The animals probably walked through some contamination.  I'd double-check that there are no contaminants anywhere.  Someone could have washed some off near a well or water source.  I've seen this happen with pets and FB syndromes before.  Everyone is fine but suddenly I see some cats walking around with rotting feet on having stepped in a single-tile puddle of FB secretions.

Sounds like you have the best of all worlds with this syndrome - dwarf zombie army AND dead babies. 
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: franti on August 12, 2011, 12:42:11 pm
We're terrible people.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Ovg on August 12, 2011, 01:01:37 pm
No, my friend. That's glorious insanity!
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 01:15:53 pm
There's still time for a third stage of this beast sickness!  Anyone want to guess what it might be?
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: franti on August 12, 2011, 01:23:51 pm
My guess? the numbness spreads to organs and they die slowly.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: The Scout on August 12, 2011, 02:33:35 pm
Bleeding, Lot's of bleeding.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 03:33:12 pm
Quote from: franti on August 12, 2011, 01:23:51 pm
My guess? the numbness spreads to organs and they die slowly.

Is numbness actually fatal?

EDIT: This is from the DF Wiki page on symptoms:

Quote
Numbness

Effects: Creature will not be able to feel affected body parts. This makes pain a non-issue, but also hampers their use (I.E. Something with numb hands will find using weapons difficult, something who has a leg that's fallen asleep with have difficulty standing). Prolonged numbness will lead to permanent sensory nerve damage.


EDIT 2: All my zombies dwarves with complete body numbness show sensory nerve damage.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Max176 on August 12, 2011, 03:54:29 pm
I have a feeling that it's going to be a long, painful life for them. They'll lose the sensation in limbs, then, slowly, their co-ordination will become terrible, making them much less useful in combat. Eventually, they will lose all function in the limbs. After that, it's anyone's guess  :-\
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on August 12, 2011, 03:57:37 pm
When they begin losing function the contagious stage of the infection begins. The dwarf will seek out highly-populated areas and curl up and die there. As his body rots, it will begin crumbling to dust. This dust will introduce the syndrome in all that inhale it.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Frogwarrior on August 12, 2011, 04:21:52 pm
Aw man, this sounds way cooler than my FB sickness. It only got three military dwarves, who started going numb and getting...

zombie pancreas.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: franti on August 12, 2011, 05:29:14 pm
A FB just slaughtered by army, but It died eventually. It's blood causes kitten rot. For reals.
No dwarves are harmed at all, but all animals that pass through the area die. It's awesome.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: (name here) on August 12, 2011, 05:34:19 pm
I remember my first syndrome. It came from a Zinc Quadruped and caused severe bleeding as stage one.

No one survived to stage 2. Or the emergency sprint to the hospital, for that matter.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Lortath on August 12, 2011, 05:36:29 pm
To franti

You're dwarf get protected of the syndrome by clothings (yea, the pig tail sock is really effective).
Kittens and chield (who are, uh, naked) will rot and die. What is a good thing (or not).
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 07:59:01 pm
Anyone with experience with beast sickness: Will the sickness spread if I get an infected and bleeding dwarf with others in a pool of water?  I don't know how it actually infected them (inhalation or skin contact?), so if you need that information it's going to be difficult to get.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: franti on August 12, 2011, 08:01:52 pm
Take is safe and quarantine him.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: SlimyMarmot on August 12, 2011, 08:03:40 pm
It will only spread through the original extract I believe, so if the infected's clean it should be safe.

Or disappointing, depending on which outcome you were going for.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: ledgekindred on August 12, 2011, 08:08:48 pm
My most dangerous FB to date was some kind of lizardy-dinosaur thing, beware it's deadly dust!  The dust spread by contact, so all my military that managed to get there before it was killed got the syndrome.  They went blind for a couple months, then got better.

I told them to stop playing with their spears like that or they'd go blind.  But they never learn.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: BeforeLifer on August 12, 2011, 08:55:17 pm
Quote from: franti on August 12, 2011, 08:01:52 pm
Take is safe and quarantine him.
Wheres the !!FUN!! in that? I would just let him go along his daily lives just w/o any skin.
If it was a contact syndrom and it only contacted the skin then all it should do is what it already has because  think about it. It caused numbmness which is semi good/bad because now they cant feel pain YAY but now they have proboly have redused physical stats like strenth and agility.
It also caused nercois to the everything that it toutched with what just the skin and since the skin rotted off you your dwarvens should have no more of that syndrom on them. Basicly go with the !!FUN!! route and dont do anything about them :D
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Urist Da Vinci on August 12, 2011, 09:16:29 pm
Quote from: (name here) on August 12, 2011, 05:34:19 pm
I remember my first syndrome. It came from a Zinc Quadruped and caused severe bleeding as stage one.

No one survived to stage 2. Or the emergency sprint to the hospital, for that matter.

The bleeding syndromes can cause faster death than the paralysis-suffocation syndromes.

Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 12, 2011, 09:21:48 pm
Quote from: SlimyMarmot on August 12, 2011, 08:03:40 pm
It will only spread through the original extract I believe, so if the infected's clean it should be safe.

Or disappointing, depending on which outcome you were going for.

Yeah, that's pretty annoying (though I still don't know if there's a stage 3).
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: ThatAussieGuy on August 12, 2011, 09:42:21 pm
Quote from: franti on August 12, 2011, 05:29:14 pm
A FB just slaughtered by army, but It died eventually. It's blood causes kitten rot. For reals.
No dwarves are harmed at all, but all animals that pass through the area die. It's awesome.

I think you're going to have a case of Battlefailed if you're not careful - Don't let any dwarves take of their shoes...
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: NRDL on August 13, 2011, 02:17:55 am
So what's the status of the soldiers?  Gizogin, if you find another syndrome spewing FB, do not kill it.  See the effects, and you can make a pharmaceutical company with a weather-deflection device as the logo.  And if the effects are awesome, try to spread it. 
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 13, 2011, 07:39:31 am
Quote from: NRDL on August 13, 2011, 02:17:55 am
So what's the status of the soldiers?  Gizogin, if you find another syndrome spewing FB, do not kill it.  See the effects, and you can make a pharmaceutical company with a weather-deflection device as the logo.  And if the effects are awesome, try to spread it.

Right now, the soldiers are stable.  Their sickness has not advanced beyond complete numbness, and they've survived a couple of battles (including a fire-breathing FB!) without ill effect.  I'll definitely try to get a hold of another FB to experiment with.

EDIT: yeah, my military is composed largely of elite dwarves with legendary combat skills, which is why they easily beat the FB (also, the fact that it was made of vomit probably helped there)
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 15, 2011, 09:58:09 am
My zombie military just defeated a hydra!  Well, technically it bled to death, but my marksdwarves are entirely responsible for the wounds that caused it to do so.

In mostly unrelated news, I made a magma pump stack!  My FPS has never been lower!  :D
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: NRDL on August 15, 2011, 10:03:30 am
Huh, are they all marksdwarves?  I doubt that, so can you give us a more detailed rundown of your military zombies?  The beating the hydra thing was cool, but that was ranged combat.  Are these things shambling sacks of rotting flesh, or are they ultra-killer B.O.W.s?
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Plank of Wood on August 15, 2011, 10:21:24 am
If they have no skin or body fat, they are fireproof.

You now have the ultimate anti-dragon defence.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 15, 2011, 11:51:35 am
I have three squads (technically four, but my captain of the guard's squad doesn't count).  They are:
The Blockades of Wheeling (10 sworddwarves/macedwarves/wrestlers, 5 of which are zombies)

The Geared Punches (10 marksdwarves, 7 of which are zombies)

The Mechanical Covers (10 sworddwarves/wrestlers, 3 of which are zombies)

That means that, out of an active military of 30 dwarves, 15 have no skin and cannot feel pain. 
(BTW, The Geared Punches, despite being a marksdwarf squad, specialize in bludgeoning their enemies to death with their crossbows when they run out of ammo [which they do very quickly])

EDIT: Sorry, I should also have mentioned that about five babies/children of my military dwarves are also affected.

Quote from: Plank of Wood on August 15, 2011, 10:21:24 am
If they have no skin or body fat, they are fireproof.

You now have the ultimate anti-dragon defence.

I actually don't know whether or not they have fat.  Does anyone know how I can check?

Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Plank of Wood on August 15, 2011, 11:53:39 am
Check their description, if it says "The fat on their [ect] is completely gone" then you have a winner.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 15, 2011, 03:29:35 pm
Quote from: Plank of Wood on August 15, 2011, 11:53:39 am
Check their description, if it says "The fat on their [ect] is completely gone" then you have a winner.

No, that's not there, unfortunately.
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: zombat on August 16, 2011, 03:31:03 am
Nothing a bit of controlled magma won't fix
Title: Re: First FB sickness! Zombie Army!
Post by: Jelle on August 16, 2011, 03:41:04 am
Sounds like it's perfectly treatable, just need a good surgeon to remove all the rotten tissue. If the rot got in there bones they are beyond saving however.

I hate the ones that cause extreme bleeding, effectively bleeding dwarves dry seconds after exposure. Not much you can do against.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 18, 2011, 08:22:35 pm
Hey, I just added a poll!
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: (name here) on August 18, 2011, 08:29:05 pm
I like slow and painful death because of the way it turns your fort into a scene from The Hot Zone and gets your doctors to justify their continued existence.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Eddren on August 18, 2011, 08:59:24 pm
Alright, one final step.
Use Magma Mist to remove their fat, as that will render them nigh invulnerable to flames, thus making them fire-proof, pain-resistant, dwarves.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 18, 2011, 09:12:08 pm
Isn't magma mist toxic to anything that breathes it in?  I'm trying to make them invincible, not dead.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Eddren on August 18, 2011, 09:26:34 pm
No, it's not toxic.
It burns stuff.
Edit: I lied.
It's toxic, too.
Still, extremely small doses of it should be fine..And there's just about no other kind of dose.
One per month should be enough, although this is still under experimentation, and so you may want to perfect it with less important dwarves.

Edit of the edit: Actually, apparently I was right the first time.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Urist Da Vinci on August 18, 2011, 10:19:33 pm
Quote from: Gizogin on August 18, 2011, 09:12:08 pm
Isn't magma mist toxic to anything that breathes it in?  I'm trying to make them invincible, not dead.

No, it only causes serious burns. The down side is that it requires a cave-in to create magma mist, and that will likely kill them or put them permanently in the hospital.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 19, 2011, 08:37:57 pm
The logical next step is to mod in my
Spoiler: fluffballs (click to show/hide)
to cause this syndrome.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Urist Da Vinci on August 19, 2011, 11:55:58 pm
[CE_NUMBNESS:SEV:30000:PROB:100:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL:START:0:PEAK:60]
The syndrome code above will make the afflicted victim feel no pain, permanently.
Tested this in arena mode, the UberDorf was able to keep fighting, even with lots of broken bones.

The syndrome code below will permanently disable eyes, making for excellent siege operators:
[CE_IMPAIR_FUNCTION:SEV:30000:PROB:100:BP:BY_TYPE:SIGHT:ALL:START:0:PEAK:60]

This last syndrome kills anything that bleeds within a few steps:
[CE_BLEEDING:SEV:30000:PROB:100:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL:START:0:PEAK:60]
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 20, 2011, 08:59:20 pm
Quote from: Urist Da Vinci on August 19, 2011, 11:55:58 pm
[CE_NUMBNESS:SEV:30000:PROB:100:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL:START:0:PEAK:60]
The syndrome code above will make the afflicted victim feel no pain, permanently.
Tested this in arena mode, the UberDorf was able to keep fighting, even with lots of broken bones.

The syndrome code below will permanently disable eyes, making for excellent siege operators:
[CE_IMPAIR_FUNCTION:SEV:30000:PROB:100:BP:BY_TYPE:SIGHT:ALL:START:0:PEAK:60]

This last syndrome kills anything that bleeds within a few steps:
[CE_BLEEDING:SEV:30000:PROB:100:BP:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:ALL:START:0:PEAK:60]

You, my friend, are a true credit to !!SCIENCE!!, and I salute you as such.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 23, 2011, 08:19:03 pm
Now I need to get this sickness in all my forts.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Gizogin on August 24, 2011, 09:59:01 pm
I have officially made mini-dwarves, and they inject bite victims with a poison that destroys their eyes and pain receptors while rotting off their skin and fat.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: NRDL on August 25, 2011, 02:23:33 am
You created a biological weapon that spreads a virus to you dwarves, thus turning them into biological weapons?  That's awesome.  Congratulations, Gizogin, you are the Albert Wesker of Dwarf Fortress.  Please, make more B.O.W.s
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Pittsy on November 01, 2013, 10:17:36 am
Living biological weapon dorfs. That's metal as hell. I encountered a forgotten beast with 'deadly blood' which, when contacted, causes nausea...and all of the victim's bones to break.

I seriously don't know what caused this, I have no recollection of any syndrome symptom in the raw that causes bones to break, but leave tissue and organs unaffected. Possibly some sort of bizarre rot syndrome?
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Button on November 01, 2013, 02:28:05 pm
Holy necropost batman
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Putnam on November 01, 2013, 05:37:28 pm
It's a damn cool topic, though, so I'll let it slide.
Title: Re: FB Sicknesses are FUN! Zombie Army!
Post by: Aslandus on November 02, 2013, 02:57:05 pm
Well, I've only seen two plague carrying beasts: one forgotten beast had instant death dust that killed about 15 of my civilian dwarves because I didn't know how to deal with forgotten beasts, the second apparently had some kind of sleep dust that knocked my melee militia dwarves unconcious for a bit... I haven't noticed any further symptoms...