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[Terratoch]

With regards to these, do they have any effect on each other? I am trying to make it so that fish and animals can't be fished or hunted to the point of total annihilation.

[Smew]

Sadly that's not something you can fix at the moment, POPULATION_NUMBER I believe represents how many of that creature can show up on your map at any given time, and FREQUENCY relates to how often you have a chance of seeing such a creature.
The root of the problem is just the way wild creatures are handled right now, I think in this next version it will be changed, though.

[Deon]

POPULATION_NUMBER shows the minimum and the maximum numbers for a creature spawn during the year. However I don't get why is there a "minimum" amount since there's already a possibility for creature not to appear.

FREQUENCY, I believe, is used for adventurer mode encounter calculations.

[Shoku]

I had thought frequency was how often it would be in appropriate biomes.

[Deon]

Well they are in the biome pool from the start, the F determines their dwarf fortress mode appearance rate. I was wrong about adventure mode.

Determines the time between creature spawns in Fortress Mode. Higher is more occurences per time. Creatures without a frequency statement appear to be on the map at all times. Almost all others have either [FREQUENCY:5] or [FREQUENCY:100].

So basically freq. determines how often do they appear on your location and pop. number determines their limit per year.

[Untelligent]

So, does population number refer to individual creatures, or clusters of creatures?

[Deathbane]

From
 my modding experiance and testing, individual creatures. But since it randomly selects how many appear, its difficult to say for certain. I suppose if you did a frequency 100 creature with an population of 1:1 and set its cluster number to 4 to 6 or something you would be able to clear it up. But since clsuter number is also varied, i think it selects first the population limit, then divides how many are able to spawn into clusters. Then they appear on the map.

[Terratoch]

So how exactly does a creature go extinct if anyone knows? Is it like if you kill off the entire population X number of years in a row?

[Smew]

I don't think you're driving them to extinction, per-say, I think you're just exhausting the biome of creatures.

[Deathbane]

Which imho, its only realistic if you have dwarves cutting the legs off everything in sight!

[Terratoch]

I don't think you're driving them to extinction, per-say, I think you're just exhausting the biome of creatures.

Okay. How does that happen then?

[Smew]

I don't think you're driving them to extinction, per-say, I think you're just exhausting the biome of creatures.

Okay. How does that happen then?

Well, I think's more of a "We don't go there anymore" kinda thing, like ravenholm.

[Terratoch]

Or like what happens if too many dwarves die and you don't get migrants because of it? That would make sense to me.