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Does adding a tag mid-game even work?

I think the opposite happened. It triggered happy thoughts in people who are glad that that didn't happen to themselves.

Had my umpteenth forgotten beast today. The previous one was still roaming the inaccessible bits of the cavern below and the one before that still existed in lung-form in my food stockpile.

This one was made of onyx. He got beheaded. Which triggered a weak dwarf hauling his 25428-weight"onyx" up a good 40-odd stairs before dumping it on a bone/shell/teeth/horn-pile for my legendary bone carver CMD to work with.

Can I do anything with this onyx? His (also weighty at 1271) head ended up on the refuse pile outside.

But when fighting, say, goblins, a steel axe is far more likely to lop off limbs and appendages left and right than a spear of equal quality and skill.

Not that the speardwarf won't give it a jolly good effort though.

Or maybe my speardwarf was slightly more focused/less sadistic in combat than my axedwarf. Nah that isn't it either. Speardwarf liked to stab legs and twist the spear.

For fighting goblins, kobolds and monkeys you'll want an axedwarf. For fighting things like (blind cave) ogres a spear is better. Limbs aren't likely to fly with those bastards anyway and the spear can reach organs much better.

Theoretically speaking, a halberd should be the perfect combination of reach, penetration and limb-lopiness.

Thing is, if his ghost appears and a dwarf sees it then they know he's dead. When they know that, you should be able to slab him.

If he appears as a ghost and haunts the inside of the volcano however, he's shit out of luck.

Just had lots of fun, a goblin ambush was kind enough to reduce my population from seventy eight to a mere eight!

FUN!

What, a single ambush? Have you not heard of these fancy new-fangled inventions called "military"? Or "walls" for that matter?

It doesn't show up when a single dwarf is "hauled", so no.