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I've noticed marksdwarves getting a lot of skill from shooting birds out of the air... and not so much by shooting stationary goblins.

Might be my imagination though.

separate the children from the parents.

let them grow up in a cellar where the children know only other children. let them drink water from a well and feed on whatever surplus food you throw down the garbage chute.
 he who survives ... survives!

I got a 14 year old child too.

I hear that vampire children don't age BUT my 14yo dwarf was just bugged. Once his birthday came around he grew up.

If you run checks on the total populations goblin/kobold are always trivial in size. If you look at casualties from struck vs starved, starved tends to be so overwhelming for the world (talking about all races) that its almost insane. Every once in while a world gen will produce something that isn't a massive starvation fest but I haven't figured out why other than pure dumb luck yet. I'd like to find a way to adjust it that relys on something more repeatable.

Yes I checked legends earlier today actually and saw battles with hundreds of dwarves attacking less than 10 goblins. I also saw instances of goblin kings and queens straight-up starving to death... but goblins never starved to extinction.

It's a bit ironic considering how easy it is to make food in fortress mode 

I know that the fix in past releases for goblins dying out was to remove them needing to eat. Not sure how overpopulated this would make things, maybe reduce birth rates?

you're thinking of kobolds. kobolds starved to death almost instantly.

goblins have always made it okay for me atleast

Well, at least the clothes won't burn in magma..

pretty sure he's a necromancer too. I mean. They're the only ones that write books, right?

upload the save for SCIENCE and, for fun, let him butcher some animals. see what happens...

EDIT: I have a theory about what has happened here. The starting seven ARE always generated with the world. However ... when a dwarf decides to infiltrate your fortress the FALSE IDENTITY is generated on the spot. something has gone wrong (read: very right!) here and the false identity was generated as one of your starters.
 there might also be a chance that dwarves are generated from scratch and part of the creation is a chance that the dwarf will be an evil one. like ... 1. create urist. 2. decide that urist is just a shell. 3. replace urist with vampire

 I do wonder if this is a bug or not ... but it's too cool to not be considered a feature!

hehehehehehe ....