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I had something like this, too. I think this was because stuff happens on other sites than your fortress, too. Maybe some other site pissed them off enough. Is your fortress the mountainhome?

I don't know exactly if you can ignore the lumber limit. It may weaken the chances of a peace agreement. On the other hand, they won't send any diplomats to make a new agreement, so sooner or later, you will have no choice.

Attacking an elve's site can be worth it. They may have books and other artifacts, and they may have tamed giant wilderness creatures that you can steal and breed in your fortress. On the other hand, this will probably worsen the conflict.

If you decide to attack, train your squad's military skills on a weak target first. Tactical superiority is worth a lot, and sites with a low population are less likely to have a great tactitian. And if they do, they don't have that many soldiers, so the tactical advantage is not worth as much.

Be careful with the number of inhabitants displayed on the world map, though. War beasts are not counted here. The forest retreat with a population of ~10 may seem weak, but if they have 2957 giant tigers, you will probably lose.

Hi! Can someone helpt me with a problem I have unretiring an adventurer?
I retired this adventurer and played a fortress for five years. Then I retired the fortress. I found out that the adventurer migrated to a necromancer's tower just after retiring, even though the adventurer is no necromancer (he probably migrated because he declared himself lord oft this tower when he encountered the necromancers).

When I try to unretire the adventurer, I cannot do anything, I just read the message "You are deceased" and can save and unload the world again. I have no idead why I deceased. The adventurer was not that old. Interestingly, after the adventurer died, he is still marked as alive in legends mode and I can try to unretire him again, with the same results.
Also, when I unretire him, I see a hut of a human hamlet on the screen, as if I unretired in a human hamlet and not in the tower. The tower is still the last known location of the adventurer in legends mode.

Has anyone encountered a problem like this?

I have a strange problem. I lost my militia commander in a raid of a goblin fortress, where she got captured, so I tried to send the rest of her squad to rescue her.

When the squad eventually returned, only one of the spearmasters actually returned (empty-handed). The rest of them is still marked as travelling. I made a copy of the work, retired the fortress and looked up where they are. Apparently, they settled in a human hamlet literally on the other side of the world (way to the goblin fortress: four days south to north, way to the hamlet: nine days travel from east to west).

Nothing in their mission report mentions this. I would expect them to at least be removed from the squad when they settle elsewhere. I tried to send the remaining squad member on the rescue mission again, hoping the others would return once he returns, but again he returned alone. He didn't even rescue the militia commanderf (even though he managed to slip in and out of the goblin fortress undetected).

So what did happen here? I read about similar cases, where the whole party did not return because of some war dog that stayed behind, but in these cases, no one returned and they did not settle elsewhere. How do I get my elite squad back, and how do I rescue my militia commander?

That sounds like a bug, maybe you didnt thoroughly explore the fort enough?  normally it works fine.

Turned out the fortress had a slightly different layout each time I visited it. Sometimes, stairs where replaced with bedrooms and the forges where inaccessible in adventure mode. When I left the fortress and entered it again, additional rooms (the forges) where accessible and I was able to find the hydra.

Thanks, that works. I still haven't found the vampire I was looking for, but everything else.

I can confirm that zombies reappear even if no necromancers live in the tower anymore.

My Depot is accessible. I have not checked if there are Items that possibly belong to the missing wagons of the caravan, but I would have a hard time doing this, since I would need to discriminate from the caravan items that belong to the traders that actually appeared.

A few weeks ago, human merchants arrived at the dwarven metropolis Idbal. There was the usual message that the merchants arrived, and no message that their wagons bypassed the site, since the trade depot is accessible.

However, no wagons arrived. The traders with pack animals walked to the trade depot and started unloading... but never finished unloading. All of the traders and pack animals arrived at the depot some days ago, but I still can't trade. My guess is that they are waiting for the wagons.

Is this a (known) bug? How can I fix it?