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Slight necro, but I made a very interesting (if useless) discovery in my current Fort.  If Dwarves are sheltered from stress for a long time, then exposed to a sufficiently high concentration of stress in a single burst, they can actually change from maximum happiness to depressed in 1 tick.  I used DFHack to reduce stress by the maximum amount, then had to hide from my first siege for ~1.5 years.  Eventually the invaders brawled with a pack of critters, resulting in numerous body parts scattered across my front lawn.  The map also rains Vile Sludge like 8 months of the year.

When the invaders retreated and I allowed everyone outside, a few Dwarves were paralyzed by terror; a combination of the body parts and accumulated sludge rain.  If they had been between early happiness and low stress, the stress hit of this event would have sent them into the unrecoverable 'haggard and drawn' state, effectively instantly.  The only reason I didn't have a considerable number of Dorfs become hopelessly depressed is because I artificially reduced stress by the maximum amount prior to exposure.  As it stands, I still had to pause all of my projects to build some emergency happiness boosters around the Fort.

I realize upon rereading that the last half of this adventure should have seen us killed several times over.  I feel like it's become an epic struggle between MottledPetrel trying his best to keep us alive, and the the community doing exactly the opposite.

As you get dragged out the door, quickly grab the nearest weapon you can find

Quote from: Bumber on December 08, 2018, 09:37:50 pm

Quote from: Immortal-D on December 08, 2018, 07:41:51 pm

If a Route Stop begins on a ramp, the Dwarves will have insufficient momentum to push it, resulting in the cart immediately rolling back over the tile and injuring anything in its' path, including the Dwarf who tried to push it.  This situation can lead to very fast !FUN!, since the Dwarves will immediately attempt to push the cart again, until they injure themselves to the point where they can't walk.

Self-operated danger room?

Yea, is it possible to do a little more !!SCIENCE!! ?, does this traumatic event train any skills or attributes?

The Fort in which I made this discovery is semi-serious, but I will definitely create a test Fort to get more data.

A lot of these pictures have faded, but the save still works; http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=50916.0  This is the gold standard for a Cavern Fortress.

Tavern brawls can generate Curses if the Tavern & Temple share a tile.  You can also get Cursed by knocking over a bookcase in a Library-Temple combo.

One tip; In DFHack, enter "digcircle filled 24" (radius number).  Enjoy.