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Oh don't worry about me, i figured out that the reason my fort was lagging was because i had crammed some 50 bards (or more) into a small 5x5, 6X6 tavern? Somewhere around there, and then had my 100 dwarves also use that tavern... Needless to say, there was a lot of collisions. And my game handled that fine enough! Then 70 zombies decided to path to one river tile. That's when i started getting problems.

I appreciate your concern, and it might be getting time to get a new computer anyway, but for my df needs, i think i'm fine

Yeah, i usually have some fifty guests around at any one time... Definitely leaving at default next time.

Huh, that's interesting. What impact does age have then?

So, the dead walk, i get ready, some 70 corpses show up with a necromancer. With only ten (mostly) legendary military dwarfs i decided to let them come to me through my traps first.

I was not accounting for them to just... walk straight into the river instead. In a small area at the edge, it's constantly 5-6 levels of water as it drains. For some reason, the undead army + necromancer has decided that those five tiles (and some surrounding water tiles) are their new favourite tiles. They will not move away from the water, and the few that haven't gotten in is sticking within some twenty tiles of their bathing master. 3 Zombies have so far attacked my fort, two of them busy killing a straggler (For some reason forbidding the corpse he was carrying did nothing, and neither did it for his luckier compatriot who was only carrying an iron bolt) and the last entering my trap chamber, and getting hit so hard by a mace that his corpse disappeared entirely, leaving only his clothes behind.

That corpse was lucky it got raptured, cause unlike them i'm still stuck in this situation. My game is running kinda slow already (250 years of history seemed like a good idea at the time. A decision i regret) and adding 70 corpses has the game running at a crawl. Needless to say, i need to get rid of the bastards. But ten dwarfs against 70 is.. not good odds. Has anybody had a problem like this before?

So i just take the nearest horse and say, "Nobody would mind if i took this horse right?" and since toady hasn't programmed in a response to that it's perfectly legal. Cool, thanks for the swift response!

Thank you for the speedy response, even if my own has become slightly tardy. It's good to know that nothing game breaking is happening, even if it is a bit annoying. I suppose it does make it easier to spot the new arrivals if nothing else.