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Okay, so
I don't do the wargaming and miniatures, but I'm wondering what people's thoughts are on 3D-printing figures for this purpose?
I understand it's an expensive hobby, but I have almost unlimited access to a Makerbot 5th gen which could theoretically shave a lot off the price of entry if I could spend enough time on it.

Anyone have any opinions or experience on the matter?

This sounds almost exactly like what happened to me in my very first fort of the new version.
I ended up posting about it on the bug tracker: Bug 0009344

Based on that, I'm going to throw out a guess that what probably happened to you was that a random husked bird (or birds) flew onto your map covered in heinous murk, and it attacked either a dwarf or animal on the surface, transferring the murk covering to them and converting them into a husk. Then that victim attacked something else and spread it around, which in turn attacked something else, eventually culminating in the full zombie outbreak experience.

I never worked out whether the wildlife arrived on the map already infected or if it was somehow converted after arriving, but it was only ever birds, so it might be related to the bug where you can have embark locations that are good or neutral on the ground but evil a few z-levels up.

Of course I could be wrong and you could be dealing with an entirely different bug, but the end result sounds very similar to what I ended up dealing with.

I was really bitter about having to give up on that embark location, so I tried starting a second one in the same region, but that gave exactly the same results, so it affected the entire region. So yeah, making a new world is probably your best bet if you want to be sure to avoid it cropping up again…

Demodex are kind of cute though, don't you think? With those stubby lil' legs. They don't cause you any harm, they're just happy little facebros keeping you company when you're feeling alone. They live on you, so you're literally the world to them! Doesn't that make you feel important? 

Just wanted to say I kinda love this idea, haha.

Sadly I have a hand injury preventing me from playing most games that's not going away any time soon, so any pledges I made would be full of deceitful lies.

Looking forward to reading plenty of colourful reviews though.

Quick question since I can't check the game right now and the wiki doesn't mention it...

Is it really not possible to bind books with leather? That's the first material I'd think of when imagining book bindings.

I know it's nothing new, but I only just stumbled on the existence of the Berenstein/Berenstain Bears spelling controversy.
It kinda tickles me that there are so many people who would sooner look for some kind of conspiracy than just accept that their childhood memory is mistaken.

Could that happen even with unnamed, non-historical-figure wildlife though? Because these all seem to be regular, nameless, everyday birds that just happened to catch the eerie murk bug. None of them showed up in legends except for the converted-on-site horse thrall that murdered everyone in my first fortress and gained a title in the process, and the raven thralls appearing obviously preceded that.