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Killed by &s after killing all other migrants and traitors, except for one pet cat and one dwarf who managed to claw his way onto the bank after being dumped in the river.

I updated from 40.19, and the world itself was generated in 40.12. There might be some weirdness going on behind the scenes.

Migrant arrives, nothing out of the ordinary. Some time later, I start getting a bunch of cancellation messages related to a wax worker (it might have been when I updated to 40.24?). No idea why. Going through his thoughts screen, I see he's not really part of the fortress...

The Molten Shields are a bandit group, and Doren himself might be randomly generated due his lack of Legends mode history and there being so little left of the dwarven civ. Originally I was just going to let him die from exposure or wait for one of the military to catch up to him (checked via savescumming -- this doesn't cause a loyalty cascade), but after watching him running back and forth between the food stockpile and the wilderness and starving to death I felt rather bad for him. He seems pleasant enough, and there's never anything nasty in his thoughts screen quote.

Once DFHack updates I'll try and repatriate him. Until then, I'll build him a little hut with its own burrow and see if he'll pick up a crossbow. He does appear in the military screen, though he won't do any jobs.

Has anyone else had a misfit migrant like this?

You could add the appropriate tokens to blood to make it cookable. Or, you could tweak it a little more to make it act like milk -- cook the liquid into a meal, or process it into... blood cheese, I guess. Not sure how it could be inserted seamlessly into an existing fortress.

Dwarves build from the side of the wall that the material came from, iirc.

Occasionally I've actually started a fort all the way down to lava in order to get decent forges running. This is, of course, absolutely impractical. Hauling all of your goods to the bottom alone occupies most of my time when I do this.

I chuck it all down the stairs onto a general stockpile, ensuring first that nobody will be walking up and down said staircase during the dumping.

One could also dump straight onto the top level of stairs and then channel out that tile to have everything fall down at once, but I literally just thought that up so I don't know the specifics of how it would work.

Order the job from there and see what happens.

Can you order the job from the manager screen?