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[Leonance]

I think if curses allow it... headcrab mod in next version.

If that IS possible I will create my own army of Lamars.

[Sappho]

Wouldn't it be easy enough to run a fortress based on farming? There's no limit to how many crops you can grow as long as you have the fertile soil, and good-quality prepared food has a strangely high value for trades. Couldn't you just trade that for stone and ore and whatever else you need, once you run out of mineable area?

[Grumbledwarfskin]

As far as the civ dying when your fort falls...that means there wasn't any dwarven civ in the area you embarked to, so the game made one up.

You can tell whether the game is making up your civ by pressing c. If your civ has no notable leaders (except for the liaison, and then only when the liaison is visiting), then it was either too small to have any leaders (not sure if that's possible), or had already died out and was revived just for your benefit, or the game made it up on the spot when you embarked.

I'm not really sure which the game does, but it's very common to embark as a dead civ. The immigration, liaison, and caravan work no differently, but you can't get a king. I've done it twice, in two embarks.

Exports are important when it comes to attracting immigrants, and it might be wealth production matters more than current wealth, in which case a slowing of production as your fortress runs low on raw materials and fills up with awesome goods that can't be surpassed, plus a reduction in moods (if mining is really the source of them) could lead to less or no immigration, especially if you took losses from a siege, failed to shower the dwarven caravan with your generous surplus, or lost the dwarven caravan to a siege.

[ThatAussieGuy]

The civ existed and had a human king.  Someone was kind enough to go through it with Legends for me and told me what he saw.  Beyond that, I guess it was because i didn't trade with the caravans. 

[DS]

Weatherwires was founded from a dead civ. I'm not getting any more immigrants (caravans still show up, apparently), so I'm not sure what will happen when the fortress finally falls. Right now it's in its sixth decade.

[Nyxalinth]

I think if curses allow it... headcrab mod in next version.

Or the thing.  If I could code it myself, I would.

Urist McAxedude cancels fight: turning into the Thing.

Fun ensues.

[Crioca]

I had a fort that ran for at least 100+ years, I think about 130, it was actually one of my earlier ones, when I first started playing right after DF2010 came out. I stopped getting migrants at around about 200 dwarves, not sure why, and then a few years later my fortress got trashed and then largely succumbed to a tantrum spiral.

Luckily I had about a dozen masons sequestered in an area of the map where I'd mined out a couple of layers of granite and marble and was busy converting it to blocks to make a huge above ground fortress. Anyway, eventually once the tantrum spiral had finished I took my masons out and got the place cleaned up, the bodies buried etc and then decided to try and repopulate my fortress through children. I had literally thousands of blocks of granite and marble so I got my masons to work building the fortress I'd envisioned, which I'd originally meant to house about 400 dwarves. The work site was secure and my dwarves were pretty self sufficient, so I transferred the save to one of old boxes and just let it run 24/7.

Eventually I got the fortress pop back up to like 150, from about 10.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

It stopped at 200 because that's the default pop cap.

[Girlinhat]

.19 introduced the inability of dwarves to die.  If you embark as a dead civ, the game doesn't care and will send you migrants and caravans as ever, as if unwilling to ignore your plight.  Islands work, however.

[valayane]

Wouldn't it be easy enough to run a fortress based on farming? There's no limit to how many crops you can grow as long as you have the fertile soil, and good-quality prepared food has a strangely high value for trades. Couldn't you just trade that for stone and ore and whatever else you need, once you run out of mineable area?

ELF ALERT!!!!!!!!