Friendly goblin faded zombies jest helped me kill a legendary beast ?

[dr_crimbo]

how ? at moment i have 2 zombie goblins are hanging out in my wood pile i saved it looks like they are injured what do i do with them ?

[AlP]

Get them to the hospital, obviously.

[dr_crimbo]

Can't seem to do anything with them and not moving just in circles . They seem to healed themselves now , my dwarfs won't go too near them or anything within 3 blocks away, i have rearranged entrance to fort so anything goes past them , Seem to make good guards already killed a goblin thief just the dead bodies are piling up and no one wants to move them, getting worried

[Sinclair]

Originally posted by dr_crimbo:

Can't seem to do anything with them and not moving just in circles . They seem to healed themselves now , my dwarfs won't go too near them or anything within 3 blocks away, i have rearranged entrance to fort so anything goes past them , Seem to make good guards already killed a goblin thief just the dead bodies are piling up and no one wants to move them, getting worried

As far as I know, zombies are hostile to everyone that is not the necromancer that raised them. Your dwarves are terrified of them, and caravan guards will attempt to kill them while the caravan escapes.

[Rainbow Jeremy]

Perhaps the real legendary beasts were the zombie goblin friends we made along the way.

[dr_crimbo]

Originally posted by Sinclair:

As far as I know, zombies are hostile to everyone that is not the necromancer that raised them. Your dwarves are terrified of them, and caravan guards will attempt to kill them while the caravan escapes.

that's my point i never seen friendly zombies ! .A few friendly goblins very rarely , Its a way from the caravan so can still trade luckily ?

[Beep]

Originally posted by Sinclair:

Originally posted by dr_crimbo:

Can't seem to do anything with them and not moving just in circles . They seem to healed themselves now , my dwarfs won't go too near them or anything within 3 blocks away, i have rearranged entrance to fort so anything goes past them , Seem to make good guards already killed a goblin thief just the dead bodies are piling up and no one wants to move them, getting worried

As far as I know, zombies are hostile to everyone that is not the necromancer that raised them. Your dwarves are terrified of them, and caravan guards will attempt to kill them while the caravan escapes.

"Faded zombies" are not zombies. There are two classes of undead: unintelligent and intelligent. Unintelligent undead are mindless reanimated corpses and will attack anything that is alive indiscriminately.

Intelligent undead are thinking, sapient beings. They attack things based on their loyalties just like other people. They come with procedurally generated names such as "Putrid One", "Risen Slayer", or, as in your case, "Faded Zombie". This just tells you which specific type of intelligent undead they are.

The reason they are not hostile to you is because they are probably just visitors. A forgotten beast attacked and they were like "Woah that's not good" and fought back. Due to being immortal they are probably very skilled, which is probably why they beat the beast.

Also quick correction about regular zombies: They are hostile to everything that is not undead. They will ignore enemy undead (for example, if a necromancer's horde attacked you while the faded zombie goblins were kicking around, the regular zombies would ignore them unless they attack first).

Edit: Here is the dwarf fortress wiki article on intelligent undead: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Intelligent_undead

[dr_crimbo]

thought i update you all on the subject . after playing the fort for a few years it turned out the Mayer was a necromancer , i noted she had engraved on the floor about loss of a lover about the time of the attack ,so i retired the fort to look at legends , seems after her lover got wounded by a goblin thief, then she turned the goblin into a undead , this was a week before the attack , she done it 4 times in legends ! , It seems to have changed the personalty of the goblin twice as under a different name the goblin zombie finally killed her lover ,