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The first two waves are hard coded.
Make sure you changed the pop cap of the save, not just the default.

To minimize migrant waves, keep wealth down, of kill off the last wave. This will scare them off.

Pop cap is in d_init.txt, i don't think saves have specific init files. And we're like 4 years later now, so the first two are long dead.

Skeletal and Zombie Elephants are out killing migrants as they come, but they just keep on coming nonstop. Also i've yet to let in a caravan to even steal from, much less trade with, so i've got no exported wealth. Can't check created wealth yet, but i've done nothing but set up a nice bedroom, dining room, and work on building walls and whatnot, so i can't imagine it's too high.

So, i embarked in a terrifying tropical moist broadleaf forest, 6 dwarves died before i managed to secure an area, and i decided to start a hermit fortress. I immediately closed DF entirely and set the population cap to 1, then re-loaded my game.

I've been getting regular migrants for several years now every time i drop to 1, and they're not stopping. Is there something i need to do in-game, like meet with an outpost liaison or something? Bit worried it might be hard-coded to get migrants when you're down to one dwarf :/

That would have made them survive a bit longer.

Quote from: Zaik on October 10, 2010, 07:25:48 pm

Also, a War Elephant Wrestler just had War Elephant Calves that I can also tame. I assume they're going to behave the same though.

Try it anyway for Fun! I kinda hoped that the taming of the children of sieging races would result in pets because the civ of the babies shouldn't be the same as the civ of the parents.

The fort in question was running on single digit fps and before i thought to try relesing them i went downstairs and the clowns wiped out my military with syndromes that caused bleeding deaths despite the dwarves not actually bleeding out anywhere visible.

boringly efficient.


I think i'm going to try a mountain with no flux or trees, having 2k logs in stockpiles and tons more laying around for when i come up with an excuse to use it is getting old.

Well, those suck.

one little group of like 4 sieges within a few seconds dropped the rainbow unicorn master's flock from 45 to 19 :/

HE went from super-ecstatic to miserable SO fast.

This sounds like any one or more of the equipment issues with the military.

Check if:

A: Woodcutting is enabled at all(Disable it if it is)

B: Mining is enabled at all(Disable it if it is, it doesn't cause nearly the same issues woodcutting will, but etter safe than sorry)

C: The dwarf isn't wearing some weird conflicting civilian clothes(This generally only applies if you are using "over clothing" in the equipment screen, but it could if you equip obviously incorrect stuff, like 5 mail shirts and a breastplate, or leggings and greaves, or gloves and gauntlets, or shoes and boots). Occasionally i'll draft a dwarf wearing something like a robe and a toga and a shirt and he will only equip either a mail shirt OR a breastplate, and he will either freak out and switch back and forth over and over, or stand in the meeting hall screaming "WHAT THE HELL DO I DO?!?!?!?". To fix this, i'd recommend switching him to "Replace clothing" and "Exact Matches" in the equipment screen, make him a dress or robe, and have him wear a dress/robe, mail shirt, and breastplate from body armor. The rest functions normally.

D: The dwarf is set to "Exact Match" and something you told him to equip isn't available. A thief could have stolen it, it could have been accidentally forbidden, could have been accidentally melted down, a woodcutter could have grabbed an axe, a weapon/armor crafter might have been short materials and given a job cancellation notice that got buried under a million Urist McRetard cancels Store Worthless Trash Item in Stockpile: Grizzly Bear Eating Face. To fix this you just need to look at the equipment screen for the militia commander position, if something is missing it won't show a little green mark on the far side. You just need to make something for that slot and they'll grab it and go off to training like the rest of the dwarves.

a farm plot generates a "Plant xxx seeds" job for every available tile that can be planted on, if you're getting that a lot it means there are no free, accessible pig tail seeds. Either you actually literally ran out of the seeds, or more likely you are backed up on hauling jobs and you have all your remaining seeds sitting under a workshop that will get moved sooner or later. They'll show up on the stockpile screen but your farmers can't use them until the haulers that claim to be moving them get caught up with what they are actually doing and then move them to a stockpile.