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[riznar]

I just embarked to Elizar's island with 1 male and 6 lady dwarves. It's like some polygamous cult

EDIT: Crud I was wrong, there are 2 dudes

[Loyal]

All the better. Dwarves are staunchly monogamous, even after the death of their spouse/lover.

[Doomshifter]

I have the opposite. 1 woman, 6 dwarves. Thankfully, it's summer and she's already in love.

o/' summer lovin', happens so fast~ o/'

[P-Luke]

I started with 4 men en three women, and before the end of the first year they were all married (except for the one single man, poor guy), and I have my first child

I was just wandering, if you build a road to the edge of the map (a bridge, I suppose) would that allow migrants/traders to enter the area?
Technically, the edge of the map would just be more water but I don't know if the game is smart enough for that or not.

[Doomshifter]

I think it might, not sure. Test it out.

[P-Luke]

Alright, I'm about to finish building my bridge, though I suppose it will take a while before I can be sure it worked or not.

edit: dang, I lost one of the 3 babies during the construction of it. The parent got knocked out and for some reason the baby actually travelled 15 tiles just so he could dive into the water and drown :p
Anyway, its finished now and no sign of any activity yet. I'll wait for a full autumn and then check back here.

[P-Luke]

Well, two autumns later there is still no sign of any traders or migrants, so I think it's safe to say that building a bridge off the map actually does calculate what is on the other side.
Oh well, I'll just pretend it leads to the large trading ship they used to get here ^^

[P-Luke]

Interesting side note:
During the winter, the water around my island froze.
Bobcats and pronghorns spawned.
The water unfroze.
Now, I have about 20 dead pronghorns and bobcats spread around my island..

I dont know if this is related to me building the bridge to the edge, or if it's a common feature that animals will approach islands in the middle of a frozen lake , but it's somewhat entertaining :p

Oh, and it seems a few pronhorns survived and reached my island. They are now breeding new fawns and thus repopulating my island's wildlife

[Neruz]

Ice counts as land, if a land biome reaches the map edge, but has water on it (water usually intrudes into other biomes a little) then the ice will be a valid spawn point for critters.

If you set it up right, you can end up on an island with one or two biomes reaching the map edge, but no land. In winter a bunch of animals will suddenly spawn (as the game goes HAY! Valid spawn point!) and then will promptly drown in spring.

Their bodies will then get frozen in the ice next winter, assuming they don't decay first, and then you can mine down through the ice and retrieve them.

[elizar]

If ice counts as land, would that mean we could get goblins in the winter. Still no migrants as there are no caravans or liason reporting back home.