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0007402Dwarf FortressAdventure Mode -- Sitespublic2014-07-16 19:182016-09-21 04:43
ReporterRobsoie 
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PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusnewResolutionopen 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version0.40.03 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0007402: Legends says retired fort was later conquered and inhabitants killed, but they're alive on reclaim
DescriptionI ran a very short lived fortress (i wanted to see how it would thrive by itself) named Thinnedmerchant that i retired for a while to let it live its life

I played a few adventurers, and then decided to play another fortress, then i recieved after some time the message that we entered the Age of Goblins, i played a bit more until i got the fort self sufficient then retired it for a while

I gave a look to the Legends to see what happened that lead into the Age of Goblins and noticed this about my old fortress, Thinnedmerchant :
http://i.imgur.com/RhVcZqk.gif [^]

So what happened is that a goblin army simply conquered my old fort and as mentionned in that report they murdered every of my embark dwarves that were there.

I decided to roleplay a vengeance and unretired an adventurer, recruited a few human allies and went to the Thinnedmerchant location.
But to my surprise, the dwarves that are stated as having been all killed are in fact all alive.
I don't know if it's the cloning bug that is affected the NPC too, or if it's the world update that didn't worked correctly, but in any case here is the saved game :
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=9025 [^]

Next to my group of adventurers there is a dwarf named Nish Gatizzulban - "Nish Fondlebanner" (press L then once the cursor is on it "dwarf woodworker" press a then d to read the description and see the name of the dwarf is Nish Gatizzulban ) that is one of my old embark dwarf and as you see in the report in the gif screenshot, that dwarf has been killed.
But there it's obvious something went wrong as the dwarf is still there and not a corpse

You can "give in to starvation" to get out of my adventurer game and check the legends to see the report about the site Thinnedmerchant and the name of the dwarves that should be dead (but are still there), and you can check Nish Fondlebanner entry in historical figure to see that he is indeed dead despite he's still there in the adventure mode
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has duplicate 0010298resolved Loci Retirement/Unretire resurrects dead dwarfs? 
related to 0005652new  Dwarves alive during abandon show up as missing, produce ghosts but still mill about as friendly at screen edge. 
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2014-07-16 19:18RobsoieNew Issue
2014-07-16 23:44Rafal99Note Added: 0026715
2014-07-16 23:44Rafal99Issue Monitored: Rafal99
2014-07-16 23:57Rafal99Note Edited: 0026715bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0026715#r9967
2014-07-17 07:37FootkerchiefSummaryFort conquered, dwarves killed but still alive ? => Legends says retired fort was later conquered and inhabitants killed, but they're alive on reclaim
2014-07-29 21:53FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0005652
2016-09-21 04:43jjl2357Note Added: 0035886
2016-09-21 04:52jjl2357Note Edited: 0035886bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0035886#r14471
2016-09-21 04:52jjl2357Issue Monitored: jjl2357
2017-10-07 23:59HededeIssue Monitored: Hedede
2017-10-11 10:00LociRelationship addedhas duplicate 0010298
2018-04-16 18:01HuntthetrollIssue Monitored: Huntthetroll

Notes
(0026715)
Rafal99   
2014-07-16 23:44   
(edited on: 2014-07-16 23:57)
I loaded the save, killed Nish myself and then retired the adventurer in nearby hamlet.
Then I looked at the legends and this is what I got:
http://prntscr.com/43i0ux [^]
So she is dead two times now :)
(0035886)
jjl2357   
2016-09-21 04:43   
(edited on: 2016-09-21 04:52)
Another thing: if you try to reclaim with fortress dwarves, your former inhabitants that legends mode claims were killed are not only alive, but hostile to your new dwarves. Each one of them will spam an "An ambush has appeared" message and attack your new seven embarkers.

They are similarly alive when you use dfhack to spawn a new embark on top of the old one, but in that case they will not be hostile to your new dwarves.