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Dwarf Fortress => DF Dwarf Mode Discussion => Topic started by: snow dwarf on September 16, 2018, 08:12:48 am

Title: Thank you mountain home
Post by: snow dwarf on September 16, 2018, 08:12:48 am
(https://i.imgur.com/pyxIHeW.png)
How is this even a thing?
And they are all over 100 years old... Is the mountain home sending me dwarfs for euthanization or some thing.
Title: Re: Thank you mountain home
Post by: Fleeting Frames on September 16, 2018, 09:03:15 am
What's your worldgen civ history like? Seems like more than just mere bad luck.
Title: Re: Thank you mountain home
Post by: Sver on September 16, 2018, 09:34:42 am
Your fort is now officially a gulag for those charged with social parasitism.
Title: Re: Thank you mountain home
Post by: snow dwarf on September 16, 2018, 09:42:22 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
It looks like they left our civilization (spies or exiled?) and then instantely joined it at my fortress.
Edit:
I looked through their personal histories and they seem to have practiced skills, then left our civ, came to my fort without skills... Aliens?
Title: Re: Thank you mountain home
Post by: Sver on September 16, 2018, 10:26:00 am
If this is the first migrant wave, they may be procedurally generated "void" migrants. Basically aliens, yes.
Title: Re: Thank you mountain home
Post by: Adequate Swimmer on September 16, 2018, 01:53:05 pm
These still make useful raiders early on, give them wooden shields and copper or wooden swords. As long as you stay in stealth and don't openly attack, they will provide a steady if modest stream of salvage and livestock.
Title: Re: Thank you mountain home
Post by: Dozebôm Lolumzalìs on September 17, 2018, 12:08:18 am
The leave/join record is a bug, AFAICT. It seems that the game treats leaving a civ site as leaving that civ, even if you immediately join another site of the same civ. At that point, you will rejoin the civ, but the brief leave/join will remain part of the group history log seen in Legends mode and the detailed dwarf view.
Title: Re: Thank you mountain home
Post by: mikekchar on September 17, 2018, 04:24:50 am
Yeah, basically, when they join a new site civ, they leave the overall civ, then join everything back up again.  I think it's probably to deal with things like baby snatching.