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You can certainly get migrants without the traders, seeing as I've gotten migrants in summer of the first year before.

I'm playing the Legendary Lands mod, the only relevant change of which is the common inclusion of "large cave spiders" in chasm areas. These basically behave just like giant cave spiders, but are a bit less dangerous. For example, I watched six of them (out of the eight discovered thus far) swarm a bison for quite some time before finally managing to kill it. It was raining at the time, so the webs they threw continually got destroyed.

Later one of my stray animals stumbled into the webs left by these spiders. I know it was them, because no spider was revealed along with the webs (i.e. the count of known spiders remained at 8), whereas it's been my experience in the past that revealing a stealthed web also reveals the spider with it. These webs were outside and should have been destroyed in the rain earlier. Unfortunately, it wasn't raining when they were discovered, or else I suspect I would have seen them vanish as soon as they aappeared.

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DF magic is not going to be D&D-style "this incantation and these components create this useful effect" magic. I can pretty much guarantee you that. That kind of magic is hardcoded and doesn't lend itself to the kinds of emergent behaviors we expect and love. Magic will, more likely than not, be weird, uncontrollable (or barely controllable), and completely mysterious. You know how you spent several fortresses trying to figure out how to tame fluid flows without flooding your fort? That'll be even more true with magic, except that the consequences for getting it wrong will be things like your dwarves guzzling through the entire fort's alcohol supply in a day, or beds that make their dwarves more tired instead of less, or poltergeists flinging all the mugs in your craftdwarf's shop at every dwarf who walks nearby.

Whelp, you shouldn't've done that, hey?

More usefully, you only get access to magma buildings if you get a message indicating that you've discovered a magma-containing feature, or if the magma is visible from the surface when you arrive on the map. Using reveal prevents the message from being given, which in turn prevents you from using magma buildings.

Similarly, if you don't get a message that you've discovered an underground water feature, then tower cap "trees" and underground shrubs will never grow.

Your operating system should automatically notice that DF wants lots of resources, and determine that the best way to achieve this is to put it on its own core. You can manually set the core affinity, though.

If I recall correctly, he did acknowledge the shortcomings in the site finder, in the first suggestion thread for it which came out approximately fifteen seconds after the first version with the site finder was released. However, it still does its job (and you better believe it's a hell of a lot better than life without the site finder was), so it's not a priority for him.

He's not going to take the time to comment in the umpteen million redundant "the site finder should be improved" threads that have spawned since then.

This has been suggesting dozens of times before.