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Ninja'd.

If phoebus is one of those tile sets that changes the raws then it could be part of the problem.

Perhaps the Unholy Murk is only a solid or liquid at very low temperatures which is why it doesn't stick around for long? Maybe you are getting trees dropping some sort of toxic dust cloud that is immediately boiling off into the air? I'm not familiar enough with this aspect of the physics engine to know if this could be the cause but I know you can get forgotten beasts that have deadly dust that boils at ambient temperatures.

I assume you aren't getting any sort of weather alerts popping up during or before the mysterious doom appears?

Is the orthographic precipitation only occurring over the land? Those even patches of precipitation are the oceans?

Are we looking at large worlds in these pics?

Very interesting. Perhaps the contaminant came in on the caravan? Was their any sign of this contaminant spatters anywhere?

Don't use blunt weapons on them for starters unless you are in a reanimating biome. In those rare instances when your dwarf actually uses their weapon you want it to do as much harm to the undead as possible.

I ran some tests in the arena and a dwarf that is fully decked out in either lowest quality full steel or full candy armor with grandmaster combat skills and a matching axe will take out an average of about 4 or 5 dwarf zombies before they get taken down. My tests were one on one. Each time the dwarf was victorious a fresh zombie was immediately sent in to fight them.

These dwarves had starting level attributes rather than the raised ones you see in real game veteran fighters and they had base quality gear rather than the high quality stuff real game smiths tend to churn out once they get going.

Undead are indeed much more powerful in this version and you should not send completely newbie recruits to face them in poor gear, but they are hardly invincible. I just repeatedly watched a single veteran dwarf kill a handful of zombies by themselves. I think once the problem with combatants failing to use their weapons as often as they should in combat is solved these odds will improve significantly.

My advice would be to always respect the undead as powerful enemies. Make sure your melee dwarves have proper ranged support when they engage and never send new recruits against them.

The new elite undead that show up in armor and with weapons are very dangerous foes as are any sort of giant undead animal. Even elite melee dwarves probably should not face these foes in open combat unless its absolutely necessary. You should treat giant undead animals almost the same way you would treat an inorganic forgotten beast that has no syndrome or other special attack.

Very good idea.

From what I have seen increasing mineral frequency doesn't increase the how likely a site is to have coal but rather how much of it there will be if it is present. I haven't thoroughly tested this specifically for coal and my observations were primarily from the last version but I don't think any of the geology code has been rewritten.

I think Toady said he had made climbing more expensive as far as path finding goes. Perhaps he inverted the logic on it or something so that instead of being more expensive to path up a wall or tree its actually less expensive and thus attracts dwarves like a moth to the flame?

From what I understand sites are supposed to develop slowly without player interaction. Perhaps it takes an extended period of time for the sites to evolve?