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Before you block an attack, set it up so you swing at the enemy at the same time with the multiattack option. I believe this also works for dodging and regular movement.

Grappling works the same way: when you grapple, you can perform a normal attack at the same time.

Breaking opponents bones with joint locks or biting opponents will trigger lethal combat. Scratching opponents will not. Sometimes enemies will escalate to lethal combat on their own, so be careful!

When goblin bandits start harassing you, you can wrestle their weapons away while the combat level is non lethal, then cut down your unarmed enemies.

Additionally, the current plan is that loyalists who are defeated when a site changes hands sometimes become bandits, and it would make sense if they returned to normal citizenship when and if the old rule was placed on the seat of power once more.

I've got a few questions, so I'll try to keep this concise. If I have this right, there are now three sorts of site conflicts:

*The goblin invasions and resultant insurrections, which are lethal combat.

*The harassment based village raids we heard about earlier, which are non-lethal/brawling.

*These new village raids, where the winner captures the site in question. (I'm not sure if these are lethal or not?)

Is that right? If so,

*Where do the old worldgen battles fit into all this? Do they take place during worldgen alongside these other types of conflict, or have these conflicts replaces them?

*What happens when a player starts stabbing enemies during a non-lethal raid?

*How do beaten enemies decide whether to flee into banditry or yield into servitude? Is it based on attributes?

In dwarf mode, sparring is more or less completely safe. And if stamina doesn't change much in the next version, it would also be a non-issue. By the time your character is exausted, he's probably reached legendary in everything you're training him in, or close to it.

And yeah, skill grinding and exploits are popular topics and this can be discussed elsewhere. If people think I'm derailing the thread, I'll give it a break.

As far as we know, there is no way to spar with someone in adventure mode in this version. Sparring makes for "light tapping" combat messages, because it's not real combat, but pretend combat in dwarf mode. The "non-lethal" combat Toady implemented for adventure mode involves people bashing each other with their hands and feet, possibly breaking bones and causing serious injures. The skull has been made bigger, so you probably won't get your head smashed in, but if the mechanics for lungs haven't changed, one deep bruise to each of them means death by suffocation, without any chance of survival.

There should be a full transcript posted soon. I think Mallocs still does those?

Hey friends.

So I want to make a necromancer reaction that involves creating "limited" zombies; that is, the zombies must have an intact head attached to an upper body.

What I've tried doing was making the valid targets both [FIT FOR RESURRECTION] and [FIT FOR RAISING].  It came close; the target had to have a "graspable" limb attached to their upper body.  Basically, as long as the target had one of their hands or their head, they could be raised.  This wasn't quite what I had in mind, though, as a headless body with only one arm left doesn't exactly make sense from a zombie stand point.

The second thing I tried to do cause the targets to transform into a different creature which did NOT have the GRASP tag on their hands; this combined with the fore mentioned reaction allowed re-raising as long as they had their head, but it had a few problems too.  Since they're being transformed into a ZOMBIE creature, any injuries they sustained during their previous life were magically healed, including severed heads.  Besides the frustration of a generic ZOMBIE creature, having to behead a target twice doesn't make any sense.

Does anyone else have any advice? I'd appreciate any help.

Here's an idea; instead of transforming them, give them a syndrome that disables their graspers. I think that MIGHT work.

I got an announcement a while ago that a dwarf has been missing for a week. I'm not a complete stranger to this feature, so I know it means that my poor woodburner is dead, but I don't know how or where to find them. I'm not sure if I have a vampire in my fortress, if they fell into the river, if they somehow got past the locked door into the caverns, or got locked underground last time I raided them, or what else could have happened. I don't want a ghost to start haunting me, and I can't even engrave a slab until I know he's dead. And furthermore, if there's a vampire in my fortress, I want to execute it ASAP. How should I start investigating?