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I read through this thread the past few afternoons, and it's both highly entertaining and very inspiring. Cheers! I've never tried my hand on a megaproject or managed to stick with a fort for more than 5 years, but reading about Towersoared makes me want to do it (and I guess a megaproject helps keep the motivation up).

Thank you very much for uploading this! And to Shadetree for the way to get sand on this region, too. It really is an awesome spot, and although the only goblins are on the other side of the world, they're happy to try and give me trouble here. Which makes me happy. Having lots of fun with this.

Thank you! Issue C was causing the problem. It was the armor stockpile she was sitting on, and I noticed her switch between breastplate and mail shirt a few times. I told her to wear only her uniform, no clothing, and she happily put all her assigned stuff back on and went back on duty with the rest of her squad.

Hm, that'll keep me from upgrading too. I'm dejected enough with the lack of action in my last .12 games. I still don't know what I'm doing "wrong", but even when I embark very close to several (inhabited) goblin forts, at best I get a thief in the first 2-3 years -- whereas in my first games I'd get proper ambushes by the second autumn or even summer. Since I'm specifically hoping for goblin action from the word go instead of 5 years of boredom before the sieges come (maybe) that is rather depressing.

I had something like that today. The third migrant wave came, and after I'd sorted them all out, a fight broke out for no reason I could discern. No failed mood. No unhappy dwarves -- the new guys and gals were at the default "quite content" and everyone else was some shade of happy. Really odd. I reloaded (yeah, still "scumming" in some situations) and managed to prevent the fight after a few attempts by sticking the rioters in a new squad and ordering them on station. They stood there nice and calm, I canceled the order, disbanded the squad, and everything was fine.

Weirdos.

Hello everyone. First time poster, been playing this infernally addictive game for about a month now. My biggest problem is a massive case of restartitis around the 3rd or 4th migrant wave, most commonly caused by wishing I'd designed something differently -- or feeling lonely because the little green guys aren't dropping by to provide a distraction. So I'm curious, what beside "play longer and wait for sieges" can I do to entice them to visit more often?

When I first started playing, I came to expect the first ambush with the first human or second dwarven caravan. But it's not happening anymore. Even when I make sure that my world has a good number of goblins, even when I all but embark on the doorstep of a goblin fortress, they have taken to ignoring me. If I haven't had am ambush by the end of the second winter, I tend to get bored and abandon. Could it be related to my new habit of walling off a good chunk of land early on, as a safe surface farming and woodcutting area? Once that wall is up, the dwarves really only leave to re-load strategically placed cage traps which I like to put up to capture the local wildlife. Could a lack of "exposed" dwarves cause the goblins to think there's nothing worth attacking? Or is it pure dumb luck?

Dealing with the goblins is half of the fun for me, so I don't just want to slog on until I maybe get a siege a couple years later.

I also seem to get fewer forgotten beasts lately. Odd.

What attracts ambushes? I don't want to add mods with new, more, tougher enemies because that'd probably go over my head. Just more plain goblins would be nice.