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Interestingly, I had something like this happen to me.

Had 2 migrations, then everything stopped and I get "no migrants this season blah blah."  Way under both my soft and hard caps, civilization is doing better than fine, and no ongoing sieges (never been sieged on this fort).

Yet, not getting any migrants all of a sudden.  I wonder if it has to do with that 30 tile radius it uses for neighbors.  My suspicioun is that you only get migrants if there are any spare dwarves within that radius from your civ.  If that's the case, embarking closer to your civilization center might help with this issue.   Have to play around with it some more.

Mmmm, watching a tantrum spiral in my challenge game.  Don't think I'm pulling out of this one  .

EDIT:  Actually, I might be wrong about that, provided I don't get sieged or something.  Have 4 dwarves who all won a lot of fist fights against tantruming dwarves.  All of them are ecstatic about their won fights, so they might actually come out the other end of this thing.

Yes, yes you can.

There seems to be some logic that makes channeled canals out of rivers run out of fish faster than actual rivers, but it does work to a certain extent.

It seems to work better if you make a circular course that eventually leads back to the river you pulled from.  Alternatively, draining it off the edge of the map seems to work pretty well too.  Something to do with the way creatures rout I think.

Thanks for your help!

I changed it to "strict" now and hope it works. I'll report back in any case

I think you need both tokens in there, like this:

[POPULATION_CAP:100]
[STRICT_POPULATION_CAP:120]

Well, the good news is that Toady is pretty confident the prisoner-leading attack bug is fixed for 40.11:

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Dwarves leading goblin prisoners around appear to continue to be attacked by dwarven soldiers, and I might have fixed that again, but it needs some testing.

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The goblin-prisoner-leading saves checked out, and...

Yus!  Finally, the return of easy-to-build goblin archery ranges!

Second ever fort. Great starting location. Optimized starting goods as much as possible.

Embarked, started designating the initial fort set up. Dismantled wagon and used logs for couple of workshops. Everyone busy...

Wait. Woodcutter is idle. I have designated a whole bunch of trees for cutting down, and Urist McWoodsdwarf is standing around doing naff all.

WHY?

Oh, hold on... Apparently, I needed one of those axes that I had removed from the embark list in favour of other stuff.

Damn it!

You may or may not know this, but you can save a ton of embark points by bringing a few logs with you instead of the axes.  You use 1 log to build a carpentry shop, and then build 1 or 2 wooden axes.  They work every bit as good as metal ones for felling trees.  That will free up 60 points on embark for you.

I don't know, but it makes sense. It needs Science.

Well, if it turns out you can drop things into minecarts, you may as well skip the boulders and go right for loading in a lignite fusion bin.

Just, you know, make sure you only fire it at something you want to burn for a while.

Can anyone upload their txts, if they have fixed this?

I haven't modded my raws for this bug, I just deal with the issue by brining extra animals on embark and culling out sterile females right now.

If you have it, you can use DF hack to fix the orientation flags in real time and get them breeding correctly (There is now a version 40.10 of DFHack, so it's a very workable solution right now).  Pretty quick and easy fix when you need to do it.  Just pull up the gui on a creature, go to status > current-soul > orientation and set the appropriate interest flags.

For my part, I just embark with 2m2f of whatever domestics I want to breed.  That gives around an 87.8% chance of ending up with at least one viable breeding pair.  Good enough odds for me.  If I really, really need them to breed, I bring 3m3f, and that gives exceptionally good odds for a breeding pair.  If a female doesn't breed, either recycle her, or DFHack the appropriate interest.

If you really want to mod all the creatures, you could probably write a quick Python or Bash script to loop through all the txt files looking for the two male/female caste tokens and adding the appropriate orientation tokens under each.  Probably only take about an hour or two to write it.

Actually, now that I think about it, it would be next to trivial to do it with notepad++ using extended features.  However, it would also mod all the civilized races to get rid of their chance to be gay/uninterested in children/asexual.  Though you could go back and manually remove the tokens from the sentient races.

Essentially you do a find and replace in files of:

\t[CASTE:MALE]\r\n

with:

\t[CASTE:MALE]\n\t\t[ORIENTATION:FEMALE:0:0:100]\n\t\t[ORIENTATION:MALE:100:0:0]\n

And the opposite for female.  Quick and easy.  Just have to go in and manually remove the orientation tags from anyone that you don't want to be 100% heterosexual.