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[mrbigmuscles]

It appears that there are no bad dudes in my world.  I have 80 dwarves, 500k wealth, and have never so much as seen a kobold thief, much less goblin sieges or anything else (haven't breached caverns or HFS yet).  Is there some way to alter the raw or save file to stick them in?  Failing that I guess I will try to attack human or elven traders and start a war.

[G-Flex]

Either the world (by chance or because you used weird world generation parameters) was generated with no goblins or kobolds, or you just happened to embark on a place where they had no access to you. When embarking, remember to view the "Neighbors" screen to check what races are listed (all those listed will have access to you). Kobolds don't appear in that list, for the record.

That, or you're just unlucky with the goblin ambushes/sieges. When you say 500k wealth, do you mean created, or imported, or what?

[mrbigmuscles]

Uh, it's just the total number at the top.  I'm not sure exactly what it is but it's a lot; 500k might have been an exaggeration.

So, is there a way to piss off either the humans or the elves and get them to attack?

[KojaK]

Destroy their trading caravans... kill the diplomat. Grab your weapons.

And you're lucky. I only noticed that I had no access to anyone after I began to wonder why I wasn't being ambushed/seiged.

No goblins, no kobolds, not even elves or humans.

Time to conquer the underworld. <>.<>

[Gnauga]

You can try to give wooden things to elves to piss them off too. And then proceed to kill their trading caravans.

[Zaik]

Killing their caravans is nice and all, but then you have a million wooden weapons/armor laying around on the trade depot being useless.

Make sure you've got a way to handle all that, it piles up fast and makes a million stupid dump jobs.

[Gnauga]

Most would suggest a magma pipe passing through your depot. I would suggest a depot passing through your magma sea.

[Dariush]

Hm. If depot is fully submerged in magma, will traders still attempt to get in?

[Poco a Poco]

Hm. If depot is fully submerged in magma, will traders still attempt to get in?

1. Put your depot in a box
2. Make the elves open the box
3. Pull the lever and collapse the box
4. Its my elves in a magma sea!

[Skytale]

This is the situation I am in, as well.  I saw a quaint-looking tiny volcanic island on my world map and couldn't resist building there.  It's a bit isolated though.

There are two other civilizations listed: a "Cave swallow man" one and a "Reptile man" one, but I have not seen any sign of either.  The Dwarven caravans do come to visit me, but I never see any humans or elves.  Even weirder: there are no native land animals. Nor are there any firey-impy creatures in my volcano.  I get fish in the ocean (which die in the annual ocean-freeze), but that's it.  It's like a creepy lost island. [Also, it appears to have a staggering amount of mineral wealth.]

I know in the old versions, goblins might not be on your "civ" list originally, but might discover you when you got bigger.  I don't know if that happens in the new build or not.  I'm over a million created wealth, and no sign yet.

[orbcontrolled]

Silly question, but... You didn't turn off invaders in the init file did you?

[Skytale]

I can't speak for the OP, but invaders is "YES" in mine.

I'll also add that one amusing consequence of this is that I have yet to have a dwarf get even slightly injured in any way.  My hospital staff is bored to tears.

[TurkeyXIII]

Only your home civ is willing to travel over water to reach you.  You need an overland route to get visitors from anything else, so an island embark won't have them.  The cave swallow man and reptile man civs live in the caverns, you'll have to breach them in order to wipe them out.

[mrbigmuscles]

Nope, invaders are on.  I embarked on a Terrifying map, much more exciting now.

[Skytale]

Only your home civ is willing to travel over water to reach you.  ... The cave swallow man and reptile man civs live in the caverns, you'll have to breach them in order to wipe them out.

OK, thanks.  Do you think it's likely I'd ever actually run into them without deliberately going and trying to dig out the whole map?  There's like 170 z-layers.