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[tieme]

Yeah so I accidentally just abandoned my fort.  I was just not paying attention and exited that way and now my save is gone.  Yes I know it prompts me.  Yes I know I'm an idiot.  Is there any way I can recover some or all of my fort?  Even if it's just the embark site?

I don't make any manual backups of any saves.

Please help

[Nolor]

You can't 'recover' your fort, though you could try reclaiming it. I hear reclaim is a bit buggy in this release, though.

I'd suggest turning on seasonal autosave in init.txt, though. It'll help prevent this in the future.

[Dave Mongoose]

Reclaim will get you back the fort, but you'll need to start from 7 dwarves again and the place will be a mess afterwards.

Read this wiki page: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Reclaim

It explains the basics, and some things that can be confusing (e.g. workshops need to be reclaimed before dwarves will use them).

[Pathos]

You can recover the embark site using the seeds you randomly used last time. They'll probably be in your DF folder.

[DG]

If they aren't in the folder you can get them by playing legends mode and exporting the files.

[Jay]

start from 7 dwarves again

Not always.
I had a 100-dwarf reclaim party once.

[Ironhand]

In the old version it was based on the surrounding perils.
So reclaiming a region with a cave or chasm got you more dwarves.
I do not think that is the case with 0.31.

[axus]

I reclaimed a fort after a goblin siege wiped it out.  I started with 7 dwarves, and like 40 orcs and some trolls were waiting for me.  The wagon started out on top of a small roof I'd constructed over the fort entrance, surrounded by enemies.  But, nobody made a move.  It turns out the new "owners" of my fort were Friendly now.  They had made a terrible terrible mess, though, and there were 60 bodies of the previous owners to move to the refuse piles besides that.

Obviously it's easier to reclaim than to build from scratch, but you will be spending a lot of time moving everything back to the proper stockpiles.  And all the food and booze will have spoiled, so make sure to bring enough.

[Soadreqm]

Also, abandoning a fortress removes mud from all tiles, meaning that you'll have to re-irrigate all your farms. And I think there was some thing where jobs were not properly deassigned on abandon resulting in some items getting frozen in time, never rotting, with your dwarves unable to interact with them in any way. Other than the problems mentioned, though, reclaiming works just fine.

[Bronzebeard]

I reclaimed a fort after a goblin siege wiped it out.  I started with 7 dwarves, and like 40 orcs and some trolls were waiting for me.  The wagon started out on top of a small roof I'd constructed over the fort entrance, surrounded by enemies.  But, nobody made a move.  It turns out the new "owners" of my fort were Friendly now.  They had made a terrible terrible mess, though, and there were 60 bodies of the previous owners to move to the refuse piles besides that.

Obviously it's easier to reclaim than to build from scratch, but you will be spending a lot of time moving everything back to the proper stockpiles.  And all the food and booze will have spoiled, so make sure to bring enough.

I found the exact same instance in adventure mode. I went in there expecting a suicide mission for what little revenge I could dispense to my invaders, but it turns out their elites were too happy to stand by and chat! I guess dwarves aren't any sport unless they're all holed up in their fortresses.