Don´t know if this is a bug or a glitch, but if a heartling dies inside or near a goblin camp other workers will join his/her fade of death when they try to recover the tool or inventory items of the dead hearthling.
I lost 3 hearthlings now…
A workaround is to join them in a party and set the defend-flag…but it´s not really great to ring the bell all the time…ideas?
Edit: spelling mistakes