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[paraxite]

Apperently Toady thought that the vampire nickname trick was a bug, and fix this in 0.34.04
Now what will we do to find out vampires?

[ASCIt]

Wait for them to accuse animals?

[Girlinhat]

That's also fixed.  Warm your paranoia engines, it's gonna get messy.

[Crioca]

Inspect them for human bone jewellery?

[Exiledhero99]

I've heard they don't get hungry or thirsty. So maybe building a holding area for incoming migrant waves and seeing if they all get hungry or not? Alternatively, use the same system to see if anyone in the wave goes missing randomly.

[Eddren]

Accuse only dwarves you know NOT to be vampires(Including the Hammerer) until there are only Vampires left?

[trees]

Wait for them to accuse animals?

• vampires won't try to pin crimes on animals

My suggestion: take out one of the walls in each bedroom and replace it with a window that can be looked through from the hallway, and set fortress guards to patrol the hall regularly.

In case that wasn't clear:

Code: [Select]

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#.0#
#..#
#X+########
...... to rest of bedrooms -->
###########

# - wall
. - floor
X - window
+ - door


[dragginmaster]

Refuse to upgrade?

Read histories, be suspicious of talented immigrants... Pay Attention.

[paraxite]

Well, I usually used the nickname trick to ensure that someone was a vampire. You could guess that some dwarf is a vampire by seeing if he lived many site and a lot of experience in many different jobs.
Also, I think that when a vampire uses a fake name, Dwarf Therapist still shows the real name.

[Sphalerite]

Build a drowning room.  Send the suspected vampire in, and then fill it with water.  If they drown, they weren't a vampire.

[wierd]

"Dunk tank"

Normal dwarves will freak out if plunged into 4/7 or deeper water, and head for the shore.
Vampire dwarves don't seem to care, and will gladly chill out in the flooded pool.

Bonus, make it a burrow that you put all the migrants in, with a single crowded exit path to a safe room.  Fill the pool with the meeting hall.

The vampires will wade out in the pool totally unconcerned.  Normal dwarves will spam about finding paths.

[Eddren]

Seriously? No-one else thinks it's a good idea to murder all your dwarves in an attempt to find that one vampire. We've lost Magma. We've lost Dwarfiness. What's left in the world to guide and protect...Eh...Yeah...Protect our dwarves?! Where is our honor?!

[Nan]

Lock suspected vampire in room with child. If the suspect gets hungry and thirsty then let it out. If it eats the child then feed it more children.

[krenshala]

oooh! ooh! I've got the solution.  Build a T intersection with some zombies at the top of the T behind fortifications (or stone windows ).  Have all migrants file in single file from left to right, so the zombies are on their left.  When they get to the intersection, the vampires will continue on to the right exit, while non vampires, being scared to death of zombies, should run away from the windows (down the stem of the T) where they can be corraled, calmed, and integrated into your non-blood-sucking population.  The vampires can, of course, then be integrated into your rapid-reaction-militia/execution squads.

The only flaw I can think of, is if the heartbeat equipped dwarves run back the way they came instead of turning right to run away from the Zs. 

[BigD145]

Build a drowning room.  Send the suspected vampire in, and then fill it with water.  If they drown, they weren't a vampire.

This with many pumps to remove the water. Maybe label this lever "just kidding". You don't have to drown anyone, just get the "drowning" tag to show up, or not.