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Why risk the potentially deadly tantrum?

Atom smash the mother too.

I might, if not for the fact that her entire legendary squad might tantrum. Maybe I should let them attend to personal needs between razing goblin sites so they're under less stress, idk.

nah.

In my current fort, a forgotten beast called The Profane attacked while all of my competent soldiers were on missions. With a name like that, I'd hope for something like a native platinum humanoid with toxic vapors or a giant steel insect, the sort of beast that could wipe out my fort and live up to its name.

It was a water blob that got killed by a civilian in one punch. I am so disappointed.

A necromancer siege came by before I had even half a dozen military dwarves with full equipment and skill above novice, so I spent a year and a half building 60+ cage traps.
I now have ~50 undead and two necromancers in cage traps. How can I "safely" work them into a training scheme without killing my entire military?

Also, a giant attacked at the end of the siege and my Talented axedwarf hacked it 29 times in the head with a steel axe. It wasn't even decapitated, but it didn't get to land a single blow in return.

Dear Aban,

I know you were stressed at Mabdugvucar. Everyone was. It was, after all, a bit of a miserable hellhole because nobody ever cleaned up the hundreds of corpses strewn about. However, your behavior upon migrating to my newer venture is unacceptable. This fortress will only ever get two migrant waves for a maximum population of 14 until we have babies, and the only thing you've done so far is tantrum. AND KILL THE EXPEDITION LEADER AND ONLY QUALIFIED MECHANIC. Out of desperation regarding population and defense without a military, I am letting you live. If you tantrum and hurt someone badly again, I'm sending you to explore the third cavern level.

Dear Urvad,

Your singular duty is garbage hauling because this fort has a 21-year backlog of discarded clothes that have currently brought time to a near-infinitely slow rate, and because you're stressed. There are an estimated 800-2000 items in need of dumping and obliteration. Please, do something other than tantrum every time you pass a 13-year-old piece of giant bat chitin.

Dear Nil,

I have disabled all labors on you except for those directly related to lever construction and operation. You have had six months to repair the waste disposal because someone destroyed the lever. All of the cage traps are loaded. Please do the fabric of the universe a favor.

Dear Kivish,
Stop starting fistfights if you're terrified in conflict and get negative thoughts from getting punched back.

Dear everyone else,
For the love of Armok how many of you do I have to assign primarily to cleaning and hauling before you figure out how to throw away the elf corpse that has been sitting in the middle of the caravan driveway for the past 18 years? It has been designated for disposal for 18 years. Either throw it out or stop getting horrified looking at it every time you go to pasture one of your 187 pets (again, Nil, get the atom smasher working again before I sacrifice you to make a magma disposal).

Sincerely,
An Overseer running out of other things to do during the 0-1 fps stretches.

Scratches don't seem to transfer the curse, only bites that break the skin (to be specific, the bite itself has to break the skin, I've had no infections that I can remember come from bruising hits that turned into a latch-and-shake)

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Zombies. Zombies everywhere. Giant undead zombies. By some miracle only a badgerwolf was killed fighting off a bunch of undead monarch butterflies, and a shoveldon defeated an entire troupe of kangaroo corpses single-trunkedly. Now the militia commander goes to face an undead ogre by his lonesome as it's getting uncomfortably close to the fortress entrance (which considering it's only Hematite, still isn't properly fortified.)

At least he has good and honest steel in his hands, even if he has no armor. better than the copper junker he was using to fight undead skunks and barn owls.

Terrifying biomes in a nutshell.

now everyone in the fort died of dehydration because there wasn't a well but nobody was willing to drink the booze.

Farmers, draw from that population for military. IMO

yeah. Set up farms to secure food and booze then have half of the farmers in active squads at any one time. During fights sic like 3/4 of your fortress on the invaders because woodcutters and miners are also pretty dangerous if armoured and skilled.