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0004967Dwarf FortressFirepublic2011-11-24 13:452011-11-26 00:39
Pickerel 
Dwarfu 
highmajorhave not tried
resolvedduplicate 
OS XLeopard
0.31.25 
 
0004967: Dwarves randomly die of sudden bleeding to death from their feet...
I have reloaded several times, and it occurs every time, entirely predictably, to the same dwarves. I put unreproducible, however, because I don't know why it is happening.
Here's what seems to happen: It has started to rain, and it does so for a while. Suddenly, the woodworker who is in the carpentry shop outside flashes yellow, and if I check before he dies his feet are suddenly injured: specifically, all five toes on each foot, and nothing else. He VERY quickly bleeds to death (less than a few ticks). Then the ranger, across the map, suddenly does the same thing, again with all five toes on each foot suddenly in brown. The same happens to a farmer but a second later, then an herbalist, another woodworker, ect. Always the timing is the same, always the dwarves are the same, every time I reload.
At first I thought it might be that they picked up items off the corpse of the recently magma-deathed outpost liaison. Then I realized that ALL the deaths were foot-based, and independent of worn items, and the liaison didn't have five or more shoes. That got me to thinking it is other things...
So I tried seeing what if it's something outside. So I reloaded and made sure that all but the ranger stayed inside when they would otherwise always die. The only reason the ranger stayed outside is because he fell asleep (and dies in his sleep every time). Sure enough, ONLY the ranger dies.
Any dwarf that stays outside and stays in one place seems to have the problem, whereas those that are outside but do not stay in one place - anyone with a quick task or a hauling job - are perfectly fine.

The closest I can come up with is: I have the max temp for this world set at 85 instead of 75. I am on a very tropical-savannah-like map, very dry (despite yearly rains). Is it possible that on this day, despite the rain, it just got so hot that it melts the feet of any dwarf outside standing in one place?
Can only reproduce by same file, as I don't have vanilla DF... though actually, now that the game saves all associated raws, I COULD send one a file if they desire.
I have very little idea why this is happening, though I have the above mentioned clues...
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duplicate of 0002605new  Creatures bleeding to death after water coverings evaporate from small body parts (toes, lips) 
Issue History
2011-11-24 13:45PickerelNew Issue
2011-11-24 15:35Logical2uNote Added: 0019016
2011-11-24 15:35Logical2uNote Edited: 0019016bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0019016#r7127
2011-11-24 17:40toybasherNote Added: 0019017
2011-11-25 06:21DwarfuNote Added: 0019026
2011-11-25 06:21DwarfuTag Attached: AWAITING UPDATE
2011-11-25 16:26PickerelNote Added: 0019036
2011-11-25 16:26PickerelNote Edited: 0019036bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0019036#r7145
2011-11-26 00:38DwarfuTag Detached: AWAITING UPDATE
2011-11-26 00:39DwarfuNote Added: 0019038
2011-11-26 00:39DwarfuRelationship addedduplicate of 0002605
2011-11-26 00:39DwarfuStatusnew => resolved
2011-11-26 00:39DwarfuResolutionopen => duplicate
2011-11-26 00:39DwarfuAssigned To => Dwarfu

Notes
(0019016)
Logical2u   
2011-11-24 15:35   
Yeah, if the local temp is too high your dwarves can melt to death in the rain. Eg, 0002605. If you play on a not-as-hot locale does the same thing keep happening?

(0019017)
toybasher   
2011-11-24 17:40   
Do you have any titans/forgotten beasts? SOme of them have randomized venoms which can cause all kinds of nasty stuff.

Perhaps some of their blood got tracked on the dwarves feet. Try checking for contaniments.
(0019026)
Dwarfu   
2011-11-25 06:21   
Reminder sent to: Pickerel

Please compress and upload a save to http://dffd.wimbli.com [^] and post a link to it here - it will be easier just to have a look at it.
(0019036)
Pickerel   
2011-11-25 16:26   
I kept playing, so the save is quite invalid, though what Logical2u says makes sense since it was just after it started raining, as well. I believe we can call this issue SOLVED!

(0019038)
Dwarfu   
2011-11-26 00:39   
Thanks for the follow-up. If you experience it again and it does not seem to be 0002605, please reopen this report and post your findings/save.