Where are the flies coming from?
I've just started playing Dwarf Fortress, and I'm noticing that at least 75% of my population (now 46 dwarfs) are complaining about flies. I don't see them anywhere, although I do at one point remember seeing a 'swarm of flies'.
Google tells me that it's because I'm not putting my food in bins/barrels/containers but look at my stockpiles ALL I see are barrels, I started cranking them out specifically because of this.
I had thought perhaps that they just had a really long memory, but recent births into my population proves otherwise as the babies appear to have an issue with flies too.
What gives?
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Best Answer
Flies are Vermin, and as such, randomly spawn and despawn across the map; there's nothing you can do to prevent this behavior
What you can do is bring cats. Cats will kill the Vermin, and should reduce the incidents of your dwarves running into vermin.
A final note: dwarves are only bothered by flies if they hate flies specifically (as opposed to another of the vermin critters). It's a minor negative thought, easily counteracted by eating good food / booze, not having to sleep on the ground, etc.
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I'm pretty certain that as in real life, birds like ducks and in fact any bird animal bought as a pet will do what a soap foundry will not in reducing flies (which I do not see on your pictures of inhabited areas; so the problem is perhaps in work areas such as the butchery/tannery/fishery if things are untended too long, or in staging areas in orchards. Or, your carpenter and/or hostiles make broken screen doors when interrupting snacking dwarves, with their menacing stone mallow-weed pipes and quarry bush macaque biscuits.)
I guess you're stuck building a duck shed in the orchard or killing field, right where you would have a cage trap for something else. Duck-walk the Amber Path!
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