Found a vampire. What do I do with her?

[Jod!]

While figuring out how my kitchen works I found a dead dwarf drained of blood. Suspicion immediately fell on my new animal trainer. She always looked kind of pale, and wouldn't you know it, as soon as I appointed a captain of the guard she confessed to the murder on the first interrogation.

So what now? Clerk in the wall? Cave explorer? I was thinking maybe hell diver but vampires still burn, right?

[Valstra]

You can just expel her, or... Assign her to her own squad, then send her raiding, alone, other places in the world. Vampires are quite durable, so you'll probs get some loot if the sites are not too big. Just make sure to send her out again as soon as she brings the goodies back, otherwise she might go looking for snack again.

[MintiM]

you can wall her in a room with levers that are assigned to whatever mechanisms you choose and keep her in there forever, without worrying your normal dorfs won't reach them in time

[Jod!]

Originally posted by MintiM:

you can wall her in a room with levers that are assigned to whatever mechanisms you choose and keep her in there forever, without worrying your normal dorfs won't reach them in time

I am sort of worried about her going insane and pulling it at a very inopportune moment... Any suggestions how to keep a walled off vampire happy? She's already suffering from the typical alcohol withdrawal vamps get. That was the way I identified her - unmet needs for food and drink next to two fully stocked taverns. Well, and being horrified at witnessing her victim die.

[Empath demon]

give them a pick and let them get all the skills, dig out a bedroom, smooth and engrave it, build a workshop, produce items. Once I had an airlock system for trading out trade goods and in materials and well. Sometimes an unwelcome guest.

[Jod!]

Originally posted by Empath demon:

give them a pick and let them get all the skills, dig out a bedroom, smooth and engrave it, build a workshop, produce items. Once I had an airlock system for trading out trade goods and in materials and well. Sometimes an unwelcome guest.

Hmmm... An airlock seems like a good idea. I think I can set up a magma kiln and glass smelter with infinite sand/clay sources nearby for her to craft stuff.

[czpetr]

Convert all your dwarves into vampires.

[MintiM]

Originally posted by JodMcJod:

Originally posted by MintiM:

you can wall her in a room with levers that are assigned to whatever mechanisms you choose and keep her in there forever, without worrying your normal dorfs won't reach them in time

I am sort of worried about her going insane and pulling it at a very inopportune moment... Any suggestions how to keep a walled off vampire happy? She's already suffering from the typical alcohol withdrawal vamps get. That was the way I identified her - unmet needs for food and drink next to two fully stocked taverns. Well, and being horrified at witnessing her victim die.

As far as I remember a hungry vamp is just gonna gradually decrease in speed but it's not like she's gonna teleport through walls.

[Jod!]

Originally posted by czpetr:

Convert all your dwarves into vampires.

Is there a tutorial on that? So far I've learned only how to weed them out among the population.

[Onyx Wake]

Do vampire dwarves like elf blood? We need to know this !

[Jod!]

Originally posted by Onyx Wake:

Do vampire dwarves like elf blood? We need to know this !

Oooooh good point! I'm not sure they sleep though. But I do have a human werebeast caged in my stockpile... I wonder if there is a way to feed my vamp without getting her mauled during a full moon and the human not dying from blood drain before it.

[=M$= Oroberus]

Build a dedicated Lever-Room somewhere deep in your fortress, create a burrow for her, disable all jobs except of lever pulling and then seal that chamber shut.

She'll love it and you'll get ALL your levers pulled instantly, without any dead dorfs appearing :)

[MintiM]

Originally posted by JodMcJod:

Originally posted by czpetr:

Convert all your dwarves into vampires.

Is there a tutorial on that? So far I've learned only how to weed them out among the population.

If you draw water from a pool or an enclosed body of water I think you can pollute it with vampire blood and everyone will turn eventually, although this is something I've read on the forum ages ago and might not be up to date.

[Jod!]

Found another interesting detail - the vampire kill list says "Zero kills" lol. Every other dwarf with no kills just has no text in there.

Uh. I will try to set up a magma kiln/glass for her with some levers nearby. Hope it'll keep her happy enough. I don't think I'll be able to figure out how to infect others, having two vamp barkeeps force feeding each other drinks in a walled off tavern would've been a good solution though.

[LastChime]

They make fantastic bookkeepers for a while, they get slower and crazier though as time goes by and they can no longer drink booze

[czpetr]

Originally posted by JodMcJod:

Originally posted by czpetr:

Convert all your dwarves into vampires.

Is there a tutorial on that? So far I've learned only how to weed them out among the population.

1) Make an empty well.
2) Put spikes connected to lever in there, use them to make vampire bleed.
3) Add water.

I believe dwarves prefer booze over water, so forbidding all your alcohol should make them drink from well.


Maybe a bit offtopic, but if you capture humanoid monster (cyclop, minotaur, ettin, etc.), you can turn them into vampire or werebeast (50/50 chance) if you make them attack statue in your temple. Since vampires have pretty high boost to stats among other adventages, you can make pretty strong monster to use against enemies this way.