Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress

Friendly attack
How do you order your squad to attack a friendly dwarf? I can only attack hostile creatures.
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Fel Apr 22, 2024 @ 3:58pm 
You don't, not sure why you would want to either.

If it is a citizen, you can control it to some extent and easily isolate (or even kill) that dwarf.
You can also expell a dwarf, not the best idea if it's about the were-curse though.

For visitors, you can fairly easily tell them to leave by closing the place they were visiting to visitors.
The exception would be monster hunter but you can just let them go to a cavern and wall it off as well.
Nobody_Nameless Apr 22, 2024 @ 4:04pm 
It just came as a surprise to me that this couldn’t be done in such a tough game. The reasons why this is needed may be different, for example roleplaying. Thanks for the answer.
Fel Apr 22, 2024 @ 4:11pm 
Dwarves attacking each others tends to cause something called "loyalty cascade", which usually ends the fort pretty quickly.
That is because anything attacking a member of a civilisation becomes an enemy of said civilisation, but when it is their own civilisation then everyone around becomes their enemy, but since they are still a member anyone attacking them also becomes an enemy of the whole civilisation, but both are still enemies with each others as well.
It rapidly devolves into a huge melee where everyone is everyone else's enemy.

There are still plenty of ways to roleplay betrayal and such, just without direct attacks.
Activating traps or bridges with a lever, sending a minecart rolling their way, causing a cave-in...
Nobody_Nameless Apr 22, 2024 @ 4:15pm 
Thank you
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Date Posted: Apr 22, 2024 @ 3:52pm
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