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0010345Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Militarypublic2017-11-24 02:322017-11-30 16:26
Urlance Woolsbane 
Detros 
highmajorhave not tried
acknowledgedopen 
0.44.02 
 
0010345: Fort Fails to Crumble to Its End even when the only left dwarves are those imprisoned during missions
I'm rather surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet. If your last remaining dwarf is killed/captured while on a raid, the fort fails to fall. Worse yet, it can be unretired with zero citizens and it still doesn't crumble.
Send all dwarves off on raids till all are either dead or imprisoned. Watch as nothing in particular occurs.
The lack of a report seems notable. It's tied to the squad returning, which obviously never happens, in this scenario.
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Issue History
2017-11-24 02:32Urlance WoolsbaneNew Issue
2017-11-29 13:24DetrosAssigned To => Detros
2017-11-29 13:24DetrosStatusnew => acknowledged
2017-11-29 17:34Urlance WoolsbaneNote Added: 0037122
2017-11-30 16:23DetrosNote Added: 0037150
2017-11-30 16:26DetrosSummaryFort Fails to Crumble to Its End, Thanks to Raid => Fort Fails to Crumble to Its End even when the only left dwarves are those imprisoned during missions
2017-11-30 16:31DetrosNote Edited: 0037150bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0037150#r14989
2018-04-16 18:03HuntthetrollIssue Monitored: Huntthetroll

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(0037122)
Urlance Woolsbane   
2017-11-29 17:34   
In light of 0010380, I attempted to reproduce this, and reproduce it I did. Unlike fluffyshambler's fort, some of my dwarves were imprisoned, including the last one I sent out. As such, it seems reasonable to infer that the game checks merely to see if all your dwarves are dead, which prisoners obviously aren't. This should be simple enough to fix.
(0037150)
Detros   
2017-11-30 16:23   
(edited on: 2017-11-30 16:31)
That sounds reasonable, I will update the name of this report. Btw, you can make a link to other report with adding #, hash, before the number (0010380) and a link to a comment with adding ~, tilde, before it (0010380:0037123).

Idea for more !!SCIENCE!! points: if all dwarves are dead or imprisoned during missions, can you switch to adventurer and get them out of there so that they will be then be back at fort on reclaim again? What happens if you instead go kill them, will the fort notice the last of its inhabitants is dead and crumble immediately or will it still be reclaimable as a live fort?