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Author Topic: a dwarf dies of old age?  (Read 9930 times)

Satarus

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Re: a dwarf dies of old age?
« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2011, 02:12:01 pm »
It's mostly animals that I see die of old age.  However back in 40d, I did have a long lived fortress (20+ years) that eventually got it's king to migrate.  Some of the early migrants did die of old age.  The message was pretty much the same as a random dog dying of old age.
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Re: a dwarf dies of old age?
« Reply #16 on: June 14, 2011, 07:58:34 am »
Would be pretty hilarious if one of your Military Dwarves died in the middle of a huge battle.

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Re: a dwarf dies of old age?
« Reply #17 on: June 14, 2011, 10:15:41 am »
Plenty of them, and their animals too, and a few generations of animals I forget to butchers. Even wild animals. Granted it was on an long-running experiment in a world with destroyed dwarf civ, so it did took LONG time, something like fifty years at least!
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Re: a dwarf dies of old age?
« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2011, 12:42:26 pm »
In earlier versions of the game my  liaisons were very prone to dieing of old age either as soon as they got on the map or just before they left the map. Sometimes I couldnt help but wonder if they did it just to give me the middle finger.
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Re: a dwarf dies of old age?
« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2011, 01:03:28 pm »
In an earlier version of the game I made an adventurer, and before I could ask the leader of that town for a quest, he died of old age. So I genocided the town :D
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Re: a dwarf dies of old age?
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2012, 01:47:54 pm »
Sorry for necroing but I can confirm this in DF2012, just had a dwarf die of old age after living in the fortress for a good few years. I imagine the new historical figures/immigration rewrite will be making this A LOT more common, due to the occasional elderly immigrant. Coincidentally, I also had a duck die of old age at the exact same time, I'm guessing it just checks for age-deaths once per season?
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Re: a dwarf dies of old age?
« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2012, 09:20:22 pm »
Heh... some of my favorite (funniest) bugs relate to dying of old age:

440: Humans die of old age after end of world gen; corpses lay around town

972: Diplomat/liaison arrives, immediately dies of old age (and other old age issues)

4405: Ghosts can die of old age and dwarves who die of old age evidently cannot become ghosts.

4422: Historical Undeads can die of old age

All of those are listed as open bugs too.
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