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[Rutilant]

and archery targets are honestly useless. Too slow, too much of a hassle to make work. You just can kill something in the caverns.

Legendary marksquad of murderfuck says no, archery targets are not useless, and unless you have difficulty designating a room, they're not a hassle either.


But, hey, I don't use danger rooms or expect my dwarves to train to legendary within 5 years, either.

[K41N]

So, I seem to have created 859000 of wealth and I have reached the Status of "City". I still only have a Baron and I'm missing more Sieges. Whats wrong?
I also seem to have 4 Traders on the map, just standing on the edge. They don't seem to affect caravans or belong to one. For now I'm just ignoring them, is this a bug? Or do they have a purpose? They're just listed as "Friendly" in my Units list.
And my caverns seem to be rather empty. I had a SB kill some (or most) of the population, but they're supposed to repopulate, aren't they?

[Garath]

So, I seem to have created 859000 of wealth and I have reached the Status of "City". I still only have a Baron and I'm missing more Sieges. Whats wrong?
I also seem to have 4 Traders on the map, just standing on the edge. They don't seem to affect caravans or belong to one. For now I'm just ignoring them, is this a bug? Or do they have a purpose? They're just listed as "Friendly" in my Units list.
And my caverns seem to be rather empty. I had a SB kill some (or most) of the population, but they're supposed to repopulate, aren't they?

that's known as the trader bug. They're migrants who were traders to your fort before and now bug out. DFHack has a fix for this, allowing them to become productive members of your fort once more

and repopulate the caverns... you mean with dwarfs or animals/monsters? in both cases yes, you'll get more dwarfs/ yes there will be more critters

[Rutilant]

So, I seem to have created 859000 of wealth and I have reached the Status of "City". I still only have a Baron and I'm missing more Sieges. Whats wrong?
I also seem to have 4 Traders on the map, just standing on the edge. They don't seem to affect caravans or belong to one. For now I'm just ignoring them, is this a bug? Or do they have a purpose? They're just listed as "Friendly" in my Units list.
And my caverns seem to be rather empty. I had a SB kill some (or most) of the population, but they're supposed to repopulate, aren't they?

that's known as the trader bug. They're migrants who were traders to your fort before and now bug out. DFHack has a fix for this, allowing them to become productive members of your fort once more

and repopulate the caverns... you mean with dwarfs or animals/monsters? in both cases yes, you'll get more dwarfs/ yes there will be more critters

DFHack also has a tweak/fix for this.

[Garath]

So, I seem to have created 859000 of wealth and I have reached the Status of "City". I still only have a Baron and I'm missing more Sieges. Whats wrong?
I also seem to have 4 Traders on the map, just standing on the edge. They don't seem to affect caravans or belong to one. For now I'm just ignoring them, is this a bug? Or do they have a purpose? They're just listed as "Friendly" in my Units list.
And my caverns seem to be rather empty. I had a SB kill some (or most) of the population, but they're supposed to repopulate, aren't they?

that's known as the trader bug. They're migrants who were traders to your fort before and now bug out. DFHack has a fix for this, allowing them to become productive members of your fort once more

and repopulate the caverns... you mean with dwarfs or animals/monsters? in both cases yes, you'll get more dwarfs/ yes there will be more critters

DFHack also has a tweak/fix for this.

dfhack has a fix to repopulate the caverns? interesting. I'm sure you can't mean the trader bug fix, since I already mention that one.

So how does the repopulate cavern work? iirc it usually got stuck on one monster still chilling out somewhere. I never had a problem with it and got lots and lots of troglodite spams, but other people may have the problem

[Azated]

So, I seem to have created 859000 of wealth and I have reached the Status of "City". I still only have a Baron and I'm missing more Sieges. Whats wrong?
I also seem to have 4 Traders on the map, just standing on the edge. They don't seem to affect caravans or belong to one. For now I'm just ignoring them, is this a bug? Or do they have a purpose? They're just listed as "Friendly" in my Units list.
And my caverns seem to be rather empty. I had a SB kill some (or most) of the population, but they're supposed to repopulate, aren't they?

It's possible your fortress is on an island or a continent where hostile enemies are not present. In that case, you won't get any sieges and only FB's will attack you.

[Rutilant]

So, I seem to have created 859000 of wealth and I have reached the Status of "City". I still only have a Baron and I'm missing more Sieges. Whats wrong?
I also seem to have 4 Traders on the map, just standing on the edge. They don't seem to affect caravans or belong to one. For now I'm just ignoring them, is this a bug? Or do they have a purpose? They're just listed as "Friendly" in my Units list.
And my caverns seem to be rather empty. I had a SB kill some (or most) of the population, but they're supposed to repopulate, aren't they?

It's possible your fortress is on an island or a continent where hostile enemies are not present. In that case, you won't get any sieges and only FB's will attack you.

But he's already gotten sieges.


Are you still not getting any?  That's disappointing!  Still not getting any, Ka --- i mean K41N?

[Cheedows]

If you want some action you could just let the Kobolds take your stuff, because then they'll ambush you.  Are you still getting caravans? 

[Fluoman]

Most effective way of doing this is designating a crafts stockpile outside your fortress.

[Child of Armok]

If you really want sieges:
Smooth all the walls (if you haven't already)
Engrave all those walls
Let thieves and snathers be succesful
Make expensive useless crap
Build a megaproject to do something fun and crack up wealth in any other way

[K41N]

Sorry, that I didn't response for a while, but I didn't have so much time to play DF and therefore another post wouldn't have made any sense.

Anyway, I'm in year 8 now with my Fort. I've reached a created Wealth of over 1 000 000. I've even been visited by a Dragon (I wasn't able to catch him, though. He kinda burned the cage he was in :-( ). Which is kinda good, because it adds some Fun, but Goblins are still rare. I have had two Ambushs since my last post and no Siege. So I think, the next Siege isn't so far away anymore.

I've spent a lot of time increasing the wealth further by carving walls and just crafting useless stuff. I hope thats enough.

Btw, I'm not on an Island or something. I've settled on the main continent and every Race (Human, Elf, Dwarf and Goblin) was listed on my embarkscreen as neighbours. I'm getting a lot of caravans, so my Fort really is reachable. (Well maybe not RIGHT NOW because of the dragonincident that kinda burned some bridges, but after I rebuilt them, everything should be fine again.)

[Garath]

reminds me of my first dragon. It was walking innocently towards all the cages and raps and stuff untill it spotted a kitten, flamed and destroyed all the traps + set the map on fire

[Naryar]

Hey, I would like to say that 2-dwarf training squads are excellent for sparring. They spar far, far more often than standard 8-dwarf squads.

also, if you go and practice on wild animals/sentient enemies, you can honestly expect a legendary fighter/weapon user in 2 or 3 years, as well as very honorable defensive skills.

Dark stranglers make for excellent training, though, if you are sufficiently well armored.

[K41N]

Sooo, I had my second goblinsiege. Guess I just had to be a bit more patient.

I also had a human Siege, without ever attacking human traders. That damn Crossbowmen nearly annihilated my whole Military though :-/ I'm down to 66 Dwarves again.
So, I kinda have a new Problem with that Traderbug. It seems that my migrantwaves almost always include at least 2 Traders of some sort. As soon as a Tradermigrant enters the map, the Migrantwave stops. So basically, I am getting Migrantwaves of 2 Dwarves right now, which basically is nothing. I need to get up to 100 dwarves again to replenish my Military and get my Fort working again. (Of my 66 Dwarves, 20 are in the military and another 10 are Children. So I only have around 36 Dwarves left. 34 If I don't count the 2 Vampires that are permachained in prison)
So my new question is: Is there a way to fix this? I really need more dwarves :-/

Oh and: My Duke died. I can't assign a new one, the post doesn't exist on my Nobles Screen anymore. Also a bug? I hoped the Liason would just create a new Duke, but he didn't.

Sorry for asking so many questions, but I have checked the wiki first and my problems aren't listed under "known bugs" or the topics page.

P.S.: Megabeasts have been no problem for my military, I killed a giant glob and a giant toad which breathes fire and flies and the like and most of the time I just needed one Axedwarf for them. But a bunch of Human Crossbowmen killed something around 30 of my Soldiers and a couple of Civilians. Kinda crazy

Edit: I still have a Champion, though. He's still lazy, but he's there.

[Garath]

dfhack has a fix for the bugged migrants. The bug is mentioned in the section about migrants.
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Migrant

also, a simple search (right sort of top of the forum bar) of +bug +migrant

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101379.msg3784901#msg3784901

plus some more


on the duke:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Baron

If your baron dies or goes insane, you will not be able to appoint another baron and consequently get other nobles which are upgraded from baron, including count and duke.(verify)

goes for duke too and is pretty much accepted as verified

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