Bay 12 Games Forum

Cheers, that was driving me nuts

So if we see a pile of like 50 pieces of jewellery all belonging to one dwarf is that a sign they're a vampire?

Vampires heal very quickly. Despite being thrashed by my captain of the guard with an artifact sword, within 20 real seconds he was fully healed again. He had several things yellow, some brown and blue.
He was having mobility problems and blinking. I thought finally he'd been killed..nope..

EDIT: I also JUST found another way to find a vampire, although it's a bit hit-and-miss or at least fairly intensive... you'd probably need to have an idea of who a vampire is to start with unless you want to do a lot of screen-crawling...

But anyhow, if a dwarf has a deity, you can check the deity on its relationship screen, then (v)iew it. This lists the various curses it has given out, and if the deity has cursed the dwarf to be a vampire, you'll find it listed there.

I checked my for sure vampire, he has no deity. His relationship list is just a few passing acquaintances.

It also seems that despite being on duty all the time, the vampire military guy will take time out to kill his squad mates.
They really do need to be on duty alone.
Which is a shame because this guy has several high fighting skills, came with them naturally.

Dwarven farmers have an uncanny knack for detecting the presence  of mud. Ask them if a place is suitable to build a farm, they will know.
Where there is mud underground, water is sure to be close by.

I didn't realize that was an option. or do you mean just try to build a farm and go through the z levels and see if it changes?
Problem is I have a bunch of soil on the map. Lots of clay and sand in the upper levels.

Oh crossmr, you are right, I just discovered a third vampire who didn't have the bold name thing, (he was also my mayor) the way I found him is because I always give my dwarves my own job titles, and he was a peasant, but in game he showed up as a beekeeper, so the nickname bug also applies to job titles too. So if you mass-assign a new job title/nickname in therapist you should be able to find the guys who aren't changed, and get them that way.
By the way my vampire mayor is now a spear-equipped sentinel standing in front of my drawbridge practicing at all times.

Can you assign and unassign that again?
I assume it'd make reading things hard by giving them all the same job title

Also someone said something about jewellery.. I just found a bed in my barracks that has like 50 or 60 pieces of jewellery on it.
I had a sneaking suspicion it was one of my military guys, but it makes no sense. 2 people were killed while he was out on a kill order.

If you just wanna get rid of them, all you have to do is get dwarf therapist, it shows the vampires really obviously because they are always "on duty" (name in bold) so once you spot one you can just assign him to the military with a full schedule and be safe.

Edit: also you can use the justice system to kill them.

Edit2: also vampires can have children.

Only 2 people in dwarf therapist have a bold name, they're both part of the military and they were both stationed outside on a kill order when the last 2 people were killed in the fort.

and now it's just killed my almost legendary miner/very skilled broker
I'm done with this.

The danger vs ability to deal with it is just far too high. You can spend lots of real hours skilling up a dwarf and then bam..woops he's gone due to the mysterious "secret vampire dwarf".

in 3 years, I've lost 8 dwarves to this, several of them fairly important at the time. If there were some ability to use the justice system to expose and deal with the vampire (have him beheaded or something) fine.  But hunting and pecking manually among now 120 dwarves (for some reason the birth rate seems higher in this version), for a tired tag? Come on.. you're looking at a meta game solution for a game problem.

Patrolling dorms won't help, as the vampire has killed in the dorm, the barracks, and the regular living quarters.
He's all over the place.