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[WaffleEggnog]

I've played about 3-4 forts in the newest version, and each time Goblins have been listed as a neighbour and an enemy on the neighbours screen, and I still have not encountered any goblin attacks, ambushes, sieges, or even snatchers. My newest fort is right beside a goblin settlement and still no attacks. Is this a bug? What gives?

[Sanctume]

What's the goblin's population? And are they at war to another civ?

[Iamblichos]

I've gotten goblin attacks with .42.06, ranging from the 10 exploratory gobbos to 120 goblins, 40 troll auxiliaries, and beak dog mounts.  Make sure you go for a couple years, because it takes 2-3 years for them to notice you.  The higher you can get your fort value, the greater the chance of attention from the greenies as well.

[bmxbumpkin]

I feel like unseen a new post about thisevery few days. Please do a search of goblins or sieges or goblin sieges and u will find tons of info. One of the most common is the "u need at least 80 dwarves to be sieged"

Another big one is fortress wealth, y should they attack u if you only have crap furniture and no high quality materials

[Libash_Thunderhead]

1. Make sure you have at least 80 citizens (not including tavern guests).
2. Wait at least for 2 years after that before giving up.

Goblin ambushes and snatchers are probably rare nowadays because I haven't seen any since 0.40, if not bugged.

[khearn]

Goblins no longer have the [AMBUSHER] tag in the raws. You can add it in entity_default.txt to get ambushes again.

[mirrizin]

I think I saw a human snatcher once.

[vjmdhzgr]

I think I saw a human snatcher once.

Yeah, goblin baby snatchers snatch all sorts of babies, and sometimes those are human. Sometimes those snatched human babies even grow up to become baby snatchers themselves.

[darkflagrance]

From personal experience, it is not uncommon to have to wait for 3+ years for your first siege. It looks like from the moment you trigger the ability to have a siege, it takes quite a while for the first one to actually arrive.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I've gotten goblin attacks with .42.06, ranging from the 10 exploratory gobbos to 120 goblins, 40 troll auxiliaries, and beak dog mounts.  Make sure you go for a couple years, because it takes 2-3 years for them to notice you.  The higher you can get your fort value, the greater the chance of attention from the greenies as well.

Value triggers are off by default for vanilla goblins. It's just population.

[KillzEmAllGod]

Goblins no longer have the [AMBUSHER] tag in the raws. You can add it in entity_default.txt to get ambushes again.

Thanks for pointing that out had a series of devastating ambushes, though they get spotted by visitors and it was a be weird because they seemed to stay creeping speed.