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[Arbinire]

I was curious if Island Embarks are still isolated from the rest of the map when it comes to liasons and possibly sending out dwarf squads for artifacts

[deathpunch578]

you're still isolated.
liasons can't get to you and you can't send anyone out to raid since there is no way to travel across the ocean (unless it freezes, then I don't know what happens)

[Arbinire]

thanks for the info, good to know

[vjmdhzgr]

Unless something changed, outpost liaisons and caravans have always been able to reach island embarks. They're able to reach any embark, anywhere. Even glaciers on the other side of the world. You are however isolated from everybody else not sharing your island/glacier. I haven't tried the new sending out squads feature. My first guess is that you can't, but I'm not a good source of information on that.

[Manzeenan]

I think by default that the first migrant waves and caravans arrive but stop after a set number on islands. if your island is close to the mainland enough you can build a bridge and connect to the continent, people and caravans will then be able to reach your fort

[CaptainArchmage]

I think by default that the first migrant waves and caravans arrive but stop after a set number on islands. if your island is close to the mainland enough you can build a bridge and connect to the continent, people and caravans will then be able to reach your fort

This is an interesting case, my new fortress in 44.01 (now 44.02) is on the main continent, while my dwarf civilisation is isolated on a smaller continent. I did get the first year's dwarven caravan, and the outpost liaison has now left after taking my order for next year. I just traded with the elves, so there's some time to see whether I still get caravans.

I think this game needs some boat code. At least something that's abstracted out, that is.

[Arbinire]

I think by default that the first migrant waves and caravans arrive but stop after a set number on islands. if your island is close to the mainland enough you can build a bridge and connect to the continent, people and caravans will then be able to reach your fort

This has always been my understanding, that the first 2 migrant waves were hardcoded though I was unsure if the first liason is or not.  It's a measure just in case you gen a world where all dwarf civs die out.  Boats would be nice, especially now we can send our dwarves out of fort, and would be a downright godsend for adventure mode

[PatrikLundell]

I believe vjmdhzgr is correct (see above).
Since dwarven caravans and migrants teleport without regard for distance and blockages, it won't matter if the civ and the embark are or different land masses (and I suspect this might extend to visitors too). There might possibly be an exception if you manage to get an embark where the embark itself is completely surrounded by water (i.e. you can't reach the edge because of the water).

Other civ caravans can't reach you if you're out of range in the pre embark info. I don't know if this affects visitors from those civs.

[Manzeenan]

I believe vjmdhzgr is correct (see above).
Since dwarven caravans and migrants teleport without regard for distance and blockages, it won't matter if the civ and the embark are or different land masses (and I suspect this might extend to visitors too). There might possibly be an exception if you manage to get an embark where the embark itself is completely surrounded by water (i.e. you can't reach the edge because of the water).

Other civ caravans can't reach you if you're out of range in the pre embark info. I don't know if this affects visitors from those civs.

the first 2 waves and caravans are hardcoded, no more come after

[Manzeenan]

Can adventurers bridge continents then theoretically? this calls for !!SCIENCE!!

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

I mean, you can bridge oceans using EmbarkAnywhere. All you have to do is make then retire a line of forts spanning the relevant body of water.

[PatrikLundell]

I mean, you can bridge oceans using EmbarkAnywhere. All you have to do is make then retire a line of forts spanning the relevant body of water.

Yes. A fortress on a world tile considered to be "ocean" provides neighbor access through that tile, so if that tile was part of a single tile wide ocean, such a fortress provides a bridge, and you don't even need "embark anywhere" to do that provided you can find some embarkable land on either side but still within the ocean tile. I assume it would be possible to bridge a suitable two tile gap by embarking on the ocean tiles on both sides (I've only tried single tile gaps), while wider gaps would require "embark anywhere".

[vjmdhzgr]

I was halfway through testing this when suddenly I remembered I don't even need to test this. Your civilization can ALWAYS access your fortress. Most civs have a specific range that they can interact with your fortress from. So if you're 31 map tiles from the nearest elven forest, then the elves can't access you. I forget what the range is but it's somewhere from 20 to 30 tiles. Anyway, using this logic just embarking 31 tiles from your civ but on the same continent would cut them off. Which it doesn't. Also while the first two migrant waves are hardcoded, the first caravan and outpost liaison aren't, so it wouldn't make sense that the first caravan shows up when no others do.

I decided to finish testing it anyway, and my third migrant wave definitely arrived.