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I use a tip on wiki for finding a location with sedimentary layer:

To find the ores of iron, search for a location that has shallow metals, flux stone, medium elevation, and either high or low drainage.

(http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Sedimentary_layer)

I used the search function, paid attention to and made sure that all these requirements are met in a single biome and I've found an embark with Limonite on first try.

Yes, it is exactly like that. I forced a few reloads on both links. The first one loaded every time, but some of the reloads were really slow, the slowest one took about 30 seconds or so. It loaded reasonably fast most of the time though. The second link always showed the error message. It got displayed instantly every time.

I had a weaponsmith enter a fey mood, claim a forge and demand some stuff. I got lucky, I had everything needed except for rough gems. So I decided to dig around, search for some. I also opened wiki and looked what kind of gems you can get in a gabbro layer. I got distracted and read lots of other stuff as well. When I returned to the game, I found out that I forgot to pause it and moody weaponsmith got melancholic in the meantime.

The werebeast attack seems plausible, so I looked into it. I do have a wererhino living nearby. The wiki says that full moons are, among other days, on 23rd Slate and 21st Felsite. Combat log however shows that the cyclops got injured and died on 11th Felsite, 8. So I think that werebeast wasn't involved.

edit: typo

A cyclops visited my fort uninvited. The access bridge was luckily raised at the time, as I learned my lesson from when a wererhinoceros came. I figured out I'd wait it out, let it become bored and leave. It kept killing various woodland animals that were passing through. Eventually I decided to trap it into a cage instead, placed an order for 5 cages so I could make an unavoidable row of cage traps behind the bridge. All preparations were going according to plan, traps were in place, lever was pulled, bridge was lowered. All that remained was for the cyclops to come and fall into one of the traps. So I waited. And waited. And waited. It was taking its sweet time, so I decided to take a look at it. I couldn't find it in its usual place on the units list and after a little while I found out that it was dead. It wasn't killed in combat, it just kinda... Died. I don't know why. I salvaged following info from the combat log:


It looks like it got hit by something and bled out afterwards. It is unrelated to the turkey, that happened about 20 days before, according to the log.

Here is the body itself:


Looks like it started bleeding in a middle of nowhere, walked about 25 tiles and died.

So, the question is: Why did the cyclops die?

(Bonus fact: an elven caravan came during cyclops' stay. The cyclops ignored it, it looks like that elven "at peace with wildlife" feature involves cyclopses as well.)

I have v0.43.05. I've just searched and whoa, I've been playing DF long enough for it to get obsolete! I'll try upgrading to v0.44.05 and see what happens. Thanks, I haven't thought about that.

edit: It worked, in new version, the fight ended moments after unpausing.

I have a fort in an evil area to challenge myself after having a fortress where nothing came for 10 years.

Now I have horse foal vile gloom zombie and bull calf vile gloom zombie fighting each other. They don't seem to be able to kill each other, as they have been at it for quite a while. Foal was the first to lose its teeth, but calf followed soon after. It looks like some kind of death dance among teeth, there is a lot of them.