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I think I haven't seen this since I've got a raised section that the military train on with fortifications around it that is one level above the magma flooding zones welcoming though oddly warm ground leading to the main staircases into the fort, and I don't really need to issue a kill order, simply having them training there or stationing them there if the second squad is active in the training cycle will work. They rush out and start murdering happily once stuff gets within visible range, so most of the combat happens on flat ground or the stairs.

Answer to Arcvasti: mu

Question: what did Arcvasti ask?

Hmmm, well damnation, I can't think of an easy way around that without screwing with the ethics as a whole...

I uh... I swear I didn't mean to do this, but due to a dumb designation while clearing out a cistern, poor Nish Shamelorbam ended up getting killed while cleaning a staircase I had to dig because I forgot to leave an access route elsewhere. I couldn't even try to go back and savescum as I didn't realize they were dead until the "has been missing" message showed up.

I checked the missing units list and did a deathcause, "killed by falling obsidian" or something like that... whoops.

So then I thought "hmmm, I wonder what would happen if I undid all the flags related to that?"

*gui/gm-editor*
*pokes around and untoggles the dead and breathing_trouble flags, sets death cause/id/unconscious to -1*

I didn't see any wounds to clear, but when I backed out of the editor they were standing there, and had all their body parts greyed out, so I did dfusion 3 5 to heal them, which turned everything red, so I did full-heal which brought them back to full health.

Thoughts show no sign of being aware they were dead, but their clothes had already been found and hauled away (dorfs hadn't gotten to the bottom of the staircase with the cistern dig, but they sensed the clothing so they grabbed it before they found the corpse) so they ran to get clothes, I reassigned a bedroom/dining room/office, and everything seemed normal.

Then I was going to clean house some and dump some of the excess stone, worn clothes, and such to atomsmash them.

I was checking through the bodyparts list because I like to keep my goblin/troll/elf/titan/FB corpses displayed around the entrance, right?

Then I see a familiar looking name, which wasn't where the enemy corpse parts show up in the list... and I realize with horror what I had done.

I grabbed a screenshot after autodumping the remains nearby so I could have both in the frame, and thus I give you an image of a dorf standing happily next to their own mangled skeleton:

On the one hand, maybe we should leave necromancy to the professionals... on the other hand I wonder if I can clear that they had an artifact mood (made a goat leather shield I think?) and try to get them to make something out of their own skeleton...

Picks have a high velocity modifier and most importantly: no "strikes the enemy with the [anything except the pointy/sharp/dangerous parts]" type attacks.

Maces sever parts WAY more than hammers from my experience, hammers tend to give combat logs full of "crushing the skull, jamming it through the skull and into the brain, and has lodged in the wound", though I've never seen them actually pull it out, so I guess they don't get as stuck?

Axes give page after page of "and the severed part sails off in an arc" which is ultra-amusing.

Picks give similar results as axes but seem to get stuck a bit more often.

Spears are weird, I've got a spearmaster with more kills than an artifact pick wielding dorf does, but I think it's because they keep showing up and jabbing stuff in the brain after it falls down.

I had some initial success with dorfs dual wielding crossbows and hammers, but I think they weren't disciplined enough to face down 40 gobs and trolls up close, so once they dumped their ammo they just hung back and complained while the heavy military dorfs wiped the rest out.

All I'm hearing is "minecart centrifuges fed with pitchblende heated by magma" and imagining how horrifyingly wrong it could all go.

Hmmm... I suppose this could be useful for an isolated magma pump at the top of a volcano with a lever back in the fort to flip it on/off... I will have to mess with this, as I'm currently trying to make it so I can flood the map with magma rapidly at will with stuff like a water reactor powered dual pump stack and several magma pistons, plus the onacloV (a big column of exposed stone above ground  which gets replaced with a roughly volcano shaped pile of magma when it drops, as a magma piston with no catchment on top is kinda like an inside out volcano) that has the southern part of the map taken care of completely.

Being able to put a couple of pumps that just draw right out of the upper parts of the volcano and flood down the sides would be handy, but trying to route water power out there wasn't worth it, too much power train lag and some inconvenient routes I'd have to take.

Basically what I did, limonite right under the wagon, a volcano due south, partially reanimating biome, part wilderness part serene, and marble scattered throughout the wilderness biome, no coal though so I've been clearcutting and am all steel'D up... but I wish I realized I shouldn't have killed the first elf diplomat on sight, because it REALLY makes them mad when you say you won't cut down a bunch of trees and then do it anyways... I mean, I'm gonna do it anyways, but I may as well maximize the odds of getting a dual goblins and elves siege right?