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Is it underground?

The upper body is the core part. When a creature dies, it's core body part is listed as missing. If the beast was chopped in half, it's lower body would be listed as missing. And it would be dead.

As to what killed it, likely animal people. The slayer will be friendly. Lucky you.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on July 20, 2011, 03:58:56 pm

Why were the migrants not in the caves? And how did your dwarves not become dorfsicles while they mined into the caverns?

In dwarf fortress, much like in real life, subterranean areas have a more moderate, fixed temperature. I don't know how advanced this mechanic is, but it managed to protect the initial settlers, and even saved the migrants after they stole some picks from the caravan, despite some having frostbite on their skulls, ribs and teeth (bones seem to be damaged by cold before other tissues for some reason).

Which doesn't help if the dwarves get frostbite while idling around the wagon, waiting for Urist McMiner to finish the new meeting area.

Yesterday, I hiked in Lester Park, which has the Lester River in it. I contemplated several things, including a few about DF. Conclusions:

1. A 30-35-foot cliff is not unrealistic, for I have seen it with my own eyes, and it is near enough vertical for a tile-based ame like DF.

2. If you look hard enough, though, there tends to be a trail somewhere that leads down to the water level, and not necessarily man-made, as some I hiked on were rather steep.

3. Soil is easily held together by tree roots, so natural soil walls holding together is not too unrealistic.

4. Trees being destroyed is.

5. Speaking of trees, they are quite useful as handholds.

6. If you are far enough ahead of your group, no one will mind if you say, "For Double-Exclamation-Points-SCIENCE-Double-Exclamation-Points!"

7. How do you pronounce !!, anyway?

8. Similarly with quality symbols.

Yup, I'll finally stop being discouraged from EVERY FRICKIN' VOLCANO just because no two adjacent tiles are on the same level.

Oops, forgot to notify, I don't want to lose track of this thread, posse ignore this post, etc etc.

Hm, actualy that's not a bad idea. A rock hound, obviously a dog made of rock, with castes of all major rock types, that has an item corpse of a statue of its rock type...hm...Or a plain 'ol pet rock, a vermin with an item corpse of a plain 'ol rock.

Or cave lizards, a species of light gray lizards whom live in the first couple cavern layers. Also with giant versions, which are also tameable, and cave lizardmen,  which could be added to the underground cigs list and/or trained. Also cave sea lizards, and all sorts of stuff. Cavesea monsters?

And, dwarfiest of all...magma-sea-living pets.

I think the solution is to let ALL workshops receive custom reactions. You want stone beds? Make a reaction for it, we vanilla folk want to leave a use for wood so that you need access to the surface or caverns for SOMETHING.