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Thanks for the feedback. Turning off truetype didn't seem to help, alas. I guess that fort will go to the scrapbin then. Too bad, since it was prepared to receive the (goblin glassmaker) queen of my Dwarven civilization and everything. I'll probably come back to DF in a few months when more of the bugs are ironed out.

Quote from: The Grackle on February 18, 2012, 04:10:02 pm

Has anyone seen if undead from an evil biome will attack a vampire dwarf? Unless there is some faction hostility, their [OPPOSED_TO_LIFE] tag should make them safe from zombie attacks.  That would make a vamp military squad pretty useful.

They are safe from zombies. I've seen it happen in my fortress when some (human) necromancers showed up with a zombie army. My normal military was attacked (and could attack) the zombies, while the vampires weren't attacked but also didn't seem to be able to attack the zombies...

Funny thing though: the vamps went after the 2-3 human necromancers and killed them. Then continued picking daisies between the shuffling zombies as my militia was trying to stay alive.

I want to correct myself: vampires DO attack zombies (and presumably other undead) if ordered directly to do so. I assembled 4 vampires in a squad (sent them to train in an outpost outside the fortress) and I targeted zombies directly from the squad orders menu, and they did attack them. They just don't attack them spontaneously when they're nearby, like other units would. It's a great necromancer army defense, if a little tiresome to target all zombies seperately.

The spear trap trick doesn't always work... a few versions back [that is, before this recent rush of updates] I long tunnel with, literally, thousands of candy spears [via a candy generator...]. Some of them almost broke through so I capped the place and let the spears work their magic. A few years later in gametime, they're STILL being poked.

So basically it's like a danger room for demons? God help us all.

Well, shucks. Who's gonna get that cherry opal casket artifact mausoleum then?

Thanks for the answer. Kind of disappointing to find out I was the last remainder of Dwarven civilization pretty much from the start (I presume), but also kind of cool. Guess it's time for megaprojects then.

EDIT: iirc, I did have a king (queen) a few years ago. He or she must have bitten the dust in the meantime, or maybe the previous Mountainhome was razed. Ah well.

Oh, I will, I just want to figure things out a bit first (like managing the military a little more efficiently).

So no one really knows about the (possible) baron problem?

Hey everyone, I'm new here and relatively new to DF (third fortress, counting a reclaim) so I hope I'm not asking anything stupid here.

I have a fortress of about 220 dwarves with great wealth (both produced and exported). It took me a while to get a Baron, probably because of the bug I read about with the liaison. Once I did what was in the wiki (delay meeting with liaison until trade caravan left) he did propose my fortress become a colony/barony.

I suggested a dwarf and he became baron. I then started building a seperate throne room for him, but he became miserable because of the lack of shiny room in the meantime and finally went over the edge when he saw my mayor's nice room. :-) He went stark raving mad, to be more precise. Now...this is where my question comes in: as soon as he went insane he was apparently stripped of his baron title and became a regular soapmaker again. Baron was also scrapped from my noble screen.

I locked him in and starved him to death, but no replacement came/ was suggested, not even with the next dwarven caravan. Is this normal, him being stripped of his title without a replacement? And will there still be another baron?