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On the bright side, you now have an immortal punching bag and as far as i know your dwarves will still get exp from shooting at him.

Haha now thats true. My crossbows got around 10 skillpoints in marksdwarf, but i have to increase my bone/wood bolt production drasticaly.

Disarming the gobbos in their cage didnt work for me. I marked their cages for dump, than manualy unselected the  cage for dump, but they kept their weapons somehow.

So I've trapped some goblins and trolls, and used them as target practice for my crossbow dwarfs. I've built a nice large room with walls carved as fortifications so dwarfs can practice their shooting skills on living breathing gobbos (trolls not included because they climbed their way out of the shooting chamber and spread some fun in my fort). But I seem to have a little problem now... That one goblin that I put there simply cant die. He hasn't taken a single bolt wound. I have pages and pages of his combat log and he seems to be blocking every single incoming shot. Am talking here about a year worth of shooting at him. I've literally shot all my practice ammo at him. Is that a bug, or maybe the problem is that am using wooden bolts (was gonna bludgeon him to death)? Although I switched to bone bolts, and its the same thing - gobbo guy blocks all incoming projectiles. Problem is, gobbo is scaring all my dwellers in fort because he counts as an invader and I cant kill him with my melee dwarfs because they are stuck on a artifact recovery mission (i believe they are MIA).

Heck, even if i had melee dwarves to finish him off, i would be too damn scared to send any to fight this demi-god goblin. Wtf is going on? Is that a bug? I need answers !



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But they turn so often into werebeasts... It seems kinda more fun to turn this into a fort with only werehyena's inside that eat the unsuspecting migrants... maybe build a special chamber where the migrants will live with loads of food and drink and than fool moon comes and they get rekt. Like a farm for my other dwarfs.  The survivors get to live with other werehynenas.

I've read that werebeasts dont need food, does that count when they are in dwarf form aswell?

Okey so something happened in my fort that i never had before. Anyways, I've started fairly good, established nice food income, had such a nice fort layout like a mountain hall carved into the cliffs overlooking the plains to the west where i groomed my cattle and stuff... Than suddenly, so early in the game, a freaking were-mammoth thing appeared  out of nowhere. It was so early i didn't even build my gates! I organised my 20 dwarfs to fight the beast with all weapons available (that would be 2 bronze axes). They jumped on the creature and started biting and chewing it, but body parts of my dwarves flew all over the fort (literally i found a torso on top of an unreachable chicken coop). 2 dwarfs survived the carnage before the beast bled out somewhere inside my fort. It turned back into its dwarf form, but the body never decayed, its corpse just stood there all flashing blue. So the remaining two dorfs build a wall around its corpse (heck this is the first time i've encountered a werebeast i dunno if they come back to life or smthing since its body didn't decay). And the two of them started building an epic memorial site for their fallen comrades. In the meantime a lot of migrants came and then i remembered - oh i should build a gate really.
But it took so much time for them to finish the gate and just before i linked the gate to the lever -- a night creature showed up. Again, no gate. It was a werehyena this time. Organised my dorfs, went to fight it with bare fists and bare teeth... meh killed it relatively easy. Left a few dwarves dead, and a few bleeding to death (since i sold all my medical supplies in preparation for the jurney... really needed that fisherdwarf). And i finally finished the gate! NOW i was safe finally, no more night beasts in my fort now when i have some sort of protection, oh no more of that yeah.

The merchants finally came to visit us. Finally i can buy some steel axes and shields so i can fight off these horrible beasts. As the dorfs were carrying their stuff to sell them i accidentally notice a HUGE splatter of blood just where the merchants were suppose to be. Yeah.. It turns out it was full moon, and my dwarves got infected! 5 of them infected to be precise... They wiped out my fort in like a milisecond...they even killed the children! Meh, screw children, they killed my puppy colony! And than they just turned back into dwarf form...

And now what? Has anyone tried to actually play with a werefort? And I have a new migrant wave coming... They'll love the smell since the entire fort is a damn miasma cloud atm, but thats the least of their problems.

Oh wow, what a time to play dwarf fortress i am so glad that this release will be so soon!

I wasn't aware of the dev page, i am a relative newcomer to DF, started playing a year ago ago maybe. I've checked the dev page, and man... this game just keeps amazing me more and more