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5% seems pretty good then. Still I think overall the concept is dumb  - you're trying to found a new colony in fortress mode, you aren't going to take animals that aren't known good breeders with you.

But if it's 5%, then 2 of each means less than 1% chance they are not going to breed, as opposed to 6.25%, which is pretty significant, right? I wish DT could tell me if that was the case.

I noticed one of the bug fixes for the most recent version was changing how ORIENTATION works for animals and that should no longer stop them from breeding.

Does this mean that having a male and female pair allowed to come into contact can guarantee breeding? It was kind of annoying to have to embark with 6 pigs at 51 points each to get a decent change of a single breeding pair.

Perhaps not quite what you're after, but setting POPULATION_CAP to 7 seems to disable migration altogether, making you rely on births for new dwarves.

The wiki suggests the first 2 waves are hardcoded, but in numerous games, setting it to 7 seems to outright prevent the first 2 waves from ever happening.

And I don't believe changing POPULATION_CAP has any affect on the rest of the game world. I was still receiving traders and siegers, for instance.

They were all killed by weapon traps.

I've since disposed of all items and bodies from said siege in a trash compactor.

I'm having an interesting FPS drop whenever I let my dwarves path to the surface.

For reference: I have a single path to the surface, with a 1-wide tile hallway filled with weapon traps, perhaps about 10 weapon traps total with a varying number of traps in each. Near the surface, before the traps, is the wagon-accessible trade depot. I have a number of doors and a bridge sitting somewhere inside the traps.

Most everything was fine - 2x2 embark with a nearly entirely linear fort, so there's not a lot of extra pathfinding going on. Even with 200+ active creatures it was still very snappy. Until I was sieged by a Necromancer. I wittled him down with traps and other tactics until I finally destroyed them all. It took around 3+ game months to clear all the debris from the surface, but now, even with the surface 100% spotless, my frame rate drops to abysmal levels if there is a path to the surface open.

To "fix" the problem, I merely have to toggle one of the (many) doors as Forbidden. Framerate will immediately jump up to normal levels. Unforbid it, and the game slows to a crawl.

I inspected the surface in detail, looking for stray items, stray bodies, refuse, anything of the sort that might explain the dwarves looking for trouble. There's nothing! The traps are all clean, the hallway has no blood splatters, everything looks quite nice and orderly. No stray refuse, not a single item out of place. It's a Glacier embark, so no plants or trees either.

Any ideas what they might be looking for?

Don't grates prevent wells from working?

I like your loadout, Tacomagic. It seems very similar to mine, both in structure and concept.

That's why I bring 160 alcohol, so that I can ignore farming for as long as possible (And I will just butcher my pack animals for meat, that usually seems to give me about 40 meat plus some tallow for soap. The birds will produce eggs quickly enough that I don't think I've ever once come close to running out of food).

Oh I do build roofs, as I'm assembling the tower. You'll see in my first post above that I often will build walls and a roof before I dig just to secure my starting 7.

The problem is I will go to build the next level of the tower, and while I'm assembling the roof, evil rain that murders everybody will come in.

I think the highest I've managed to build before people start dying to fetid goo they can't clean off is about 8 stories.