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Quote from: imperium3 on April 12, 2011, 05:45:23 am

I got the message about wolves, or maybe it was leopards... but I haven't seen either of those (Savage desert).

On the other hand I have encountered a trio of giant desert scorpions. No danger of them getting hungry, they receive a nice diet of dwarf...

Capture them. BREED them. Then, when you have enough children of both genders, butcher the parents so they cannot act as sleeper agents for sting operation on your fortress.

Hehe. Sting.

I had a very similar thing happen once (I think a quote from my thread about it is still in somebody's signature...).

Rotting animals/peoples will cause miasma. Prepare for this. Butcher the infected animals, I don't know if they'll yield viable meat, but if not, that's what the refuse stockpile is for.

Now, the hospital IS equipped to deal with necrotized tissue, I'm fairly sure. When it's on the outer limbs, your doctors will excise it (surgery required). I'm not sure about internal organs, they may do surgery on that, but I can't say for sure. Prepare for a shit-tonne of miasma in your hospital. When this happened in my fort, I couldn't even see the doctors and patients because of the massive clouds of purple smoke. The impromptu miasma vents I dug did not help a lot, so don't bother.

Now, if only the feet are rotting, your dwarves stand a good chance of survival. They may become walking-impaired, but crutches work now, so hurray. If a lot of other stuff is rotting too, chances of survival get slimmer. I had one child in the last incident whose...well, everything that I could see was rotten. He died (ironically, he was the son of the chief medical dwarf...I felt very sad after that).

Hope you've got a fucktonne of suturing thread, doctors, cloth for wrapping the wounds, and nice things around the fortress to inspire happy thoughts, mate!

I think Toady once said that there's a script that picks out a random dwarf from the list of dorfs that haven't made an artifact, and that that one will then go and make something snazzy. Only millitary being selected may be some kind of bug, though.

If you have prepared meals or store your food in barrels, there'll be no real problem. It won't rot that fast.

You can't get rid of flies.

I had a stairway dug out of a soil layer. The area it was in flooded slightly after a mishap with my well. The stairway disappeared.

It's a nice touch.

This has given me a great idea...

Make a square of clear glass windows in a meeting area, like so:

XXX
XOX
XXX

Channel out the square over the O from above, remove the ramp (you may need to wait with putting up one of the windows).

Pit in two rooster/animals/badgers/whatever from above.

Pretend that your dwarves are betting. Seeing as nobody makes coins anymore, you can pretend they're using rocks, or something.

Cockfight in the meeting hall!

(Note: Cockfighting is a very terrible thing that shouldn't be done, except in Dwarf Fortress. Do not facilitate cockfights by betting on them. Cocks need lots of cuddling and stroking.)

Obviously not.