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[I3erent]

So i start on a goblin tower, then rewal there doors so they cant get out, kill the stragglers outside then proceed to train an army and 1 by 1 open the towers and wipe em out.  Sounds good but into the second tower all my dwarves got slaughtered and the fort is declared abandoned. Now on the reclaim all the goblins have up and left??

What gives?

[Metal Chao]

All the Dwarf corpses rotted and smelled so they left.

If you'd given your Dwarves soap, or stuffed their pockets with scented herbs, they'd still be there.

Trust me on this.

[Wanderer No. 7]

Aww, man, I have had an experience with disappearing goblins myself as well.  In my case, though, I think I managed to isolate the bug to a cage trap.  Except that by "bug" I mean "hydra", and by "disappearing" I mean "converted to bits of gore, strewn all over the place".  I was looking forward to experimenting some more with their towers.  Collapsing them wasn't as fun as I would have hoped, and I didn't get a chance to try anything with screw pumps.

Seriously though, that sounds like a bug with reclaiming and other fortress residents.

[I3erent]

I duplicated it again so it is it seems.

[Tahin]

I've had to happen, too. Strangely, it doesn't appear to happen consistently, as one other time is didn't actually happen, and I had 3 squads of military dwarves fighting their way through the towers.
Apparently they somehow managed to land on the roof. Didn't know dwarves had helicopters...

[RedWick]

quote:Originally posted by Tahin:
<STRONG>Apparently they somehow managed to land on the roof. Didn't know dwarves had helicopters...</STRONG>

They call 'em Zepplins.

[I3erent]

How the hell did they leave tho the doors were walled shut, they must have jumped to their deaths.

[Metal Chao]

quote:Originally posted by berent:
<STRONG>How the hell did they leave tho the doors were walled shut, they must have jumped to their deaths.</STRONG>

They selectively bred beak dogs until they evolved wings, then rode their flying dogs off into the sunset.

[grelphy]

I like the sarcastic explanations, but this is actually a "feature"-- for some reason, goblins abandon any fort which is touched by dwarven hands (or feet, or blood, or whatever). Even if they defeat all of the dwarves (which happened to me; hooray for spawning on the roof!), they do a mass abandonment.

Sorry.

If I had to guess why, it's probably because the game for some reason doesn't save all of the gobbos and when you reclaim, the area is a dwarven fortress. Easy pre-built aboveground fortress, plus random free equipment if you start, abandon and reclaim.