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Beware that the one live goblin is probably a necromancer, so any corpses he gets near will join his undead army.

Train macedwarves with silver maces and make spiked metal ball traps for your corridor. Stone traps have a chance of doing some damage but not a significant one.

Charging out would be a great way to end your fortress's military in a blaze of glory. Zombies are not to be trifled with.

Maybe you could burrow a mayor you like into a meeting hall with some of his constituents, close in to force them to socialize and force him to increase his skills?

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You may also want to try zooming with the mouse wheel.

Now the dwarf who got lungshot by his own rib is constantly cancelling his jobs to be shaken by his injury. Then again, this may be a result of having my chief medical dwarf surgery his lung without having any skill in surgery.

Hey, I didn't realize that I had another surgeon in the fortress!

Edit: the job cancelations have stopped, and my paraplegic dwarf was kind enough to throw another tantrum and punch another dwarf's rib through their lung, so I'll get to repeat the experiment. On a related note I'm now digging out a jail for my fortress.

The dwarf with the bad arm seems to constantly be meeting with my mayor to cry on shoulder or yell at, so that might be helping.

I had a wild deer give birth to a foal on my map.

One of my dwarves managed to get nerve damage on his right leg and left foot from a fight with a zombie a while back, rendering him unable to stand. Ever since then, the thought 'he feels hopeless after suffering a major injury' always seems to be at the top of his thoughts, while positive thoughts always recede into last season. He has since become stressed, and then haggared, and has had a bout of obliviousness and one of depression.

Is this just how it is for majorly injured dwarves? Has anyone else experienced this, and does anyone have a solution?

I thought disaese resistance meant dwarf's ability to resist infections. Dwarves with high disease resistance would get infection much more rarilily than ones with low.

I'd assumed that too, but I haven't been able to corroborate that with evidence one way or the other. Considering that nearly everything else in this game has been tested with Dwarven Science, I was kinda surprised to find a lack of conclusive information.

I might consider putting together my own study on the issue, the only question is: how to get enough small injuries on enough dwarves to test it without killing them outright...

Hmmm...