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Ok, so, I have found a vampire in my fort, temporarily assigned an injustice dwarf, made her confess to a murder, removed the justice personnel, convicted her, assigned her to a new squad random gen aptly named "The Gloved Tests" despite her outright refusing wear the damn gauntlets until I reassigned the uniform several times, made her a barracks in a completely walled off section of the fortress with an "airlock" composed of two bridges that are never opened at the same time and a dump zone between them for supplying new stuff to her new lodgings. *breathes in* Now she is constantly astonished at having her punishment delayed and has enough stuff to do to be decently happy-ish.

So. How do I feed her?

I read somewhere that any sleeping creature will do so I captured a forgotten beast that has a breath that has the "drowsy" effect. I can reliably make war dogs fall asleep when chained next to a fortification the beast can see through.

1. Will this make her feed on whatever sleeping creature I chain in that spot?
2. Will this prevent her getting slowed down by unsatisfied alcohol/food needs?
3. If no, then I am considering making a tavern and assigning her as a bartender to force feed herself drinks, do I need two vampire bartenders for this to work or will she able to force feed herself?

I am pretty certain I got a bloodsucker in my fort (a vampire) as I got a dwarf that died from getting all of blood drained. But how do I find which one it is?

I might be a little late on this but I did some minor -science- and:

1. most of the time they have very green/grey face sprites
2. their kill list tab says "Zero kill"
3. very often they are "terrified of seeing X die", X being their last victim
4. they have unsatisfied needs to drink and eat despite your tavern being fully stocked and all the rest of your dwarves are euphoric from inebriation except this one

Probably had bugs that were just not at all a priority considering the next update is on siegers and others being able to knock down doors and bridges so all that code has to be rewritten anyhow.

Oooh. Makes sense. Enemies knocking down bridges is a tough pill to swallow though... It was annoying enough to trap demons and fbs with one tile bridges, if I have to fiddle with cave ins and obsidian generators just to stop a random titan from barging into my fortress it's gonna be a rough time. The old way of raised drawbridge = wall was actually fine even with an occasional flame beast melting one or two.

Apparently not in the new version, at least not with doors. I used to do the same trick with bridges in classic but it looks like doors are OP as hell in premium.

That there - is a butchery... I was kinda hoping to use that contraption as a way of killing caged mokeys and foxes until I found out that a Dwarf would rather jump off himself or tear the poor thing apart with his bare hands. Sometimes, both. The little bloodstain on the top is all that's left of a rhesus macaque. Goblins and elves, however, are quite willing to be thrown down.

How was I supposed to know how to build stuff? It's my first try at an execution tower, so I built it using the wisdom and architectural knowledge of a drunken dwarf and his crew of part-time laborers.

Well... The result is kinda as you see it. A noodle-shaped monument of Armok himself. Feed your Blood God! Armok is hungryyyy!
I think I'm gonna post some more screenshots of my cozy little outpost a bit later.
Well, here it is. Not much to look at, and I'm not sure the Dwarves will survive another year with me being stupid enough to crank savagery and number of beasts up to high for my second fortress. But bloody mayhem is worth it, I guess.