Bards overrun my city and drink all the beer

[Nomus]

I've made a mistake of accepting a bunch of bards earlier. Now i have over 20 bard visitors who constantly ask to join my fortress and drink all the beer. They also do nothing but socialize and eat my resourses. Now after human bards occupied my tavern naked goblin dwarfs arrived and eat drink and sleep i nthe tavern too. How to expel them?

[Bralbaard]

Flooding the tavern with magma is an often used method.

[Vorpal Void]

Make more beer.

Otherwise, go into your tavern location settings (click on it, then click on magnifying glass icon on the top left) and set it to accept only your citizens, by default it's set to "all visitors welcome".

You can also tweak visitors cap in game settings, defaulted to 100.

[Nomus]

Originally posted by CV514:

Make more beer.

Otherwise, go into your tavern location settings (click on it, then click on magnifying glass icon on the top left) and set it to accept only your citizens, by default it's set to "all visitors welcome".

You can also tweak visitors cap in game settings, defaulted to 100.

Oh this is actually a usefull comment. Thank you very much pal.

[furorgermanicus]

it's time to thin the herd.

[WendigoActual]

Time to send in the war hamsters

[sajmon]

xD

[Fin]

Originally posted by Nomus:

Originally posted by CV514:

Make more beer.

Otherwise, go into your tavern location settings (click on it, then click on magnifying glass icon on the top left) and set it to accept only your citizens, by default it's set to "all visitors welcome".

You can also tweak visitors cap in game settings, defaulted to 100.

Oh this is actually a useful comment. Thank you very much pal.

I should point out the flood tavern with lava is also a useful comment, personally I would flood it with water so I could loot the bodies.
There is no wrong answer as to how to deal with unwanted guests

[Empath demon]

I often have a small aboveground tavern for guests, who then lure I mean greet any hostile invaders while my dorfs lock down the main fort.

[MHplays]

Select the Tavern Zone, go in to the magnifying glass icon. There you can switch the accessibility of your tavern from "all visitors welcome" to "only long-term residents" or "citizens only". This will make visitors bards unable to drink and eat your food.
As for the already accepted bards, you can click on then an expel the from your fortress.

[UntrustedLife]

Originally posted by Nomus:

I've made a mistake of accepting a bunch of bards earlier. Now i have over 20 bard visitors who constantly ask to join my fortress and drink all the beer. They also do nothing but socialize and eat my resourses. Now after human bards occupied my tavern naked goblin dwarfs arrived and eat drink and sleep i nthe tavern too. How to expel them?

You could tell a squad of dwarves to take care of em.
I've done that plenty
You should be able to designate them to be attacked like any other creeature.

[Nomus]

Originally posted by UntrustedLife:

Originally posted by Nomus:

I've made a mistake of accepting a bunch of bards earlier. Now i have over 20 bard visitors who constantly ask to join my fortress and drink all the beer. They also do nothing but socialize and eat my resourses. Now after human bards occupied my tavern naked goblin dwarfs arrived and eat drink and sleep i nthe tavern too. How to expel them?

You could tell a squad of dwarves to take care of em.
I've done that plenty
You should be able to designate them to be attacked like any other creeature.

Will it lead to bad reputation?

[Basterbane]

Originally posted by Nomus:

Originally posted by UntrustedLife:

You could tell a squad of dwarves to take care of em.
I've done that plenty
You should be able to designate them to be attacked like any other creeature.

Will it lead to bad reputation?

Don't know, but I'd imagine the civilization those bards come from won't take kindly to them dying at your place.
What might also happend is your attack dwarfs turning on eachother. Loyalty cascade will happen that is pretty much like a civil war in your fort.

Expand your drink and food industry together with the farming one. An above ground tavern might be your first line of defence against invaders. It would still reflect poorly on your fort if they died killed by goblin siege, but at least you don't risk your own dwarfs getting hurt.

I once had human bard join my fort. I did not build any rooms for guests to rest yet and my tavern keeper kept giving the poor bard more alcohol to drink. Bard died.

Won't all the dead bard return as ghost sooner or later to seek revenge if you kill them?

[JaxterSmith]

Originally posted by Basterbane:

Originally posted by Nomus:

Will it lead to bad reputation?

Don't know, but I'd imagine the civilization those bards come from won't take kindly to them dying at your place.
What might also happend is your attack dwarfs turning on eachother. Loyalty cascade will happen that is pretty much like a civil war in your fort.

Expand your drink and food industry together with the farming one. An above ground tavern might be your first line of defence against invaders. It would still reflect poorly on your fort if they died killed by goblin siege, but at least you don't risk your own dwarfs getting hurt.

I once had human bard join my fort. I did not build any rooms for guests to rest yet and my tavern keeper kept giving the poor bard more alcohol to drink. Bard died.

"Whats wrong Humie? Cant hold your mead? HAHAHAHAH
Human: {**Deceased**}

[Black Ace]

Mimimimi, my beer!
Show some guestdwarfship and brew some more!

[hyp]

My fort is bard central as well. I murdered some of the early visitors including a baroness but it didn't seem to deter anyone else from showing up