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More important, mountainhome, you don't call it full if you can't become the mountainhome.

Perhaps, but becoming the mountain-home is not really that useful, all you get are three more useless nobles(which is quite a waste in a low pop-cap fortress. You also lose the ability to order stuff from caravans, which i would also imagine is more of an issue in a smaller fort than a larger one, though i suppose that would make things more "survivalistic".

In regards to the original question, i believe you can change the amount of population required for civilisations to siege you in the entity raws.  According to the wiki, changing PROGRESS_TRIGGER_SIEGE from 3 to 1 will make a civilisation start sieging you at 20 dwarves, rather than 80 as currently. I don't know if this would affect siege size, but i suspect not.

Yes its normal. My current fortress has had its forest burned down twice already, first time when i was attaced by a dragon, second when i was attacked by a blob of fire.  I've also had past fortresses whose forests burned down. Every-time I've had a fire a few trees have collapsed and paused the game. I've modded the game a bit but i've never fiddled with trees.

I did not know that migrants could show up as werebeasts, vampires yes, werebeasts, no.

My queen arrived, as did her husband, and the outpost liaison. No Legendary Dwarfs though, which was a real shame, as they would have been useful in the goblin siege which followed. There were about 110 goblins, trolls and beak dogs all up, and while my military managed to fight them off, i lost half of them in the process(7 dwarfs and a human lasher). The mess was enough to scare off the human caravan.

Does it matter, they should die either way.

Dear Urist McThreeYearOld, please don't play on the railway tracks. It was stupid enough the first time round, but i thought seeing your two year old friend killed before your very eyes and you having your own arm mangled by a mine-cart full of wood logs would be enough to convince you playing on the railway tracks was a bad idea.

Appears i was wrong, and now I've had to go to the trouble of creating an everywhere except the railway tracks burrow to put you in. Hopefully that should stop your stupidly, so your parents don't have to suffer like your poor friends.

Kind regards, Fortress Overseer who does no wish to have to be a nanny to his dwarves.

 

I agree with Melting Sky, the best solution to the problem of masterwork iron or basic steel is masterwork steel.

Your fortresses will last a lot longer than it would have back before the zombie nerf, back then you would be lucky if you managed to kill one of them, now you should be able to kill a good chunk of them, if not all.

Meanwhile, my fortresses had just managed to rebuild the wind farm when a goblin siege arrived. Fortunately there only 16 of them, and no trolls, so i locked them outside and built a trap corridor. However by the time i had finished the trap corridor 10 had decided to leave, and when the first of the remaining 6 stepped into the trap the other 5 promptly retreated as well. The only death from all this was a dwarf who got lost outside and a ram who got shot by the bowgoblins.