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Not that I'm complaining, but regarding migrants, you could just designate the walled aboveground part as a meeting zone momentarily, wait for the stupid migrants herd themselves in, seal the doors leading in and opening the doors below to let them entry to the fort. Potential gobbo ambushers won't be able to smash dem sealed doors either unless they have trolls with 'em.

The biggest threat to migrants are the skeletal creatures anyway. Armed gobbos are much slower than those are. And less frequent. Then again I got one migrant wave through by recruiting the whole bunch and they tore apart a pack of skeldeers, so the whole god damn thing is up to the RNG.

As far as I recall, the landscape is all tundra, no glacier anywhere.
Luckily we do have an aquifer. A pretty big one too, I think a lot of the stone walls on the first cavern layer are just waiting for some foolish miner to swing their pick and cause another FPS-destroying flood.

Eh, no biggie. I just felt like being an obnoxious bastard who wants to hear praise.

I take all the blame for that, what with my blasted "efficiency" and newfangled "survival".
We didn't even lose a dozen dwarves in my turn! The travesty! The boring seclusion and success of several projects!

To the gallows with hi- me!

It should be noted that our current dorf civ isn't the one led by Led.
Make of that how you will.

So let me get this straight.

In dwarven communities, there are people who are learning to better control their bowels when they need to, and there are hushed stories spoken respectfully about people who do that fast as lightning, legends of their trade.

My money is on some hilarious bug related to undead raising in evil biomes. Like it happens instantly after death, all the time. You'll end up with hundreds of chopped off zombie upper arms, lower right legs and first toe, left foots all over the place and no way to dispose of them. Except with magma.

Alternatively, something screws up in the werecreature attack thing. Leading to a fort full of werecreature dorfs.

Having access to metal and proper weapons doesn't apply to worldgen, only in Fort and Adventurer mode kobold encounters. For worldgen, there are a number of approaches.

First, make kobolds huge for worldgen, then make 'em normal sized afterwards. Creature size means a lot in worldgen whenever someone gets in a fight. Random deaths can still occur though.

Second, kobolds don't really expand from their cave homes. To let 'em spread around, change their home type from cave to anything else, really. Forest homes or cities would be the fastest, the default biome likes of kobolds allows for fast spread of their civilization.

You could limit the other civs to some specific rare biomes, they'd be stuck in relatively small areas then while kobolds would have access to more land to conquer. To get the Age of Kobold though, it'd require that a lot of the titans, semimega- and megabeasts would be dead though(I think, pretty sure on it anyway).

All that AoK needs is for kobolds to be the most numerous civ anyway. Normally this would be pretty rare, obviously.

Age of Heroes: I recall this is what happens when there are a lot of good sized civs around and a few amount of megabeasts left, like two or three. Demon overlords may count for this.

Age of Civilization: Semimega- and megabeasts are dead, titans too. This happens when there are a lot of civilizations around and none is overwhelmingly populated compared to the rest.

Age of Death: Everything is DEAD. And I mean everything, everything bigger from insects. Since bugs are nearly limitless in number, mod them out along other vermin, then have creature lifespans ridiculously low. 1-2 years?