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[Maksie99]

Hey everyone. I've currently got a relatively succesful fort running, with a sort-of-functioning military, a steady food supply and a volcano-powered metal industry. But I have around a hundred dwarves now and I feel like I just can't be arsed to find stuff to do for all of them. Should I throw the latest migrant wave of 36 dwarves into the volcano? Start over with a new fortress? Also, what are good ways of making sure that you don't get too many migrant dwarves without disabling migrants completely?

[ResMar]

Create complicated megaprojects.

[Broseph Stalin]

The best way to get as few migrants as possible is to be as poor as humanly possible. Dwarves won't immigrate often or in large numbers.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Here is your challenge
- The Volcano is the god of your fortress site and should be treated as such.  Devise a way that the volcano will destroy the fortress (flooding, obsidianizing, however you like) if it is not appeased with annual dwarven sacrifices.
- Spread the word of the Volcano.  Wall off the perimeter as close as you can to the edge and fill the surface with magma.  A small indentation to allow for stairs so visitors may enter is allowed.
- Burn the subterranean heretics!  Those dwelling underground do not fear the Volcano.  Wall the cavern perimeters from top to bottom and fill their blasphemous realm with clensing molten rock!

[Maksie99]

Thanks for the answers, everyone. Flooding the place with magma seems to crash my game so I'll probably just abandon and start over with what I've learned.

[caddybear]

If you're getting bored, it means that your version of dwarf fortress isn't hard enough. Up the mineral scarcity, don't embark on volcanoes, install fortress defense, try megaprojects. The list goes on.

[Glyndŵr]

Dig an enormous trench down to below your fortress's lowest level, then hollow out the space below it. Place a single wooden support at the bottom, connected to a lever. Dig out the other side. This means your entire fortress is now seperate from the rest of the world. Send a dwarf down to the bottom, pull the lever, and watch as your entire fortress moves down 1 block in an unholy cave-in, causing pandemonium that would make Fargus and Stan the Man proud.

Better yet, replace the floor below your fortress with a thin layer of constructed floor above the magma sea. Watch as your entire fortress collides with the infinite magma sea, spraying magma into the air and possibly causing your entire computer to go on fire.

[ab00]

Turn everyone into miners, and tell them to channel a large cube-pit thing out of the ground, but rather than designating 1 layer and waiting for them to dig it out, designate the entire thing at once!

[Crashmaster]

What if you're loosing interest in a mega-project? (and also secretly quite worried that one un-noticed magma- unsafe mechanism will ruin the entire thing)

[ydaraishy]

Dig up all the adamantine.

[Sutremaine]

Send a dwarf down to the bottom, pull the lever, and watch as your entire fortress moves down 1 block in an unholy cave-in, causing pandemonium that would make Fargus and Stan the Man proud.

No no no, you need fire for that. General destruction is more Nikki's style.

Now, the next thing you wrote...

[Xelanthol]

Word of advice, don't always pick the perfect embark. I assume you went looking for a volcano, with all the ores you needed and everything. Plop down somewhere in a Tundra for a change or something. Enjoy!

[Tirion]

Use that fort to give yourself a head start in a next fort. Train up all the dwarves you can in whatever you can: everyone into Legendary +5 Pump Operator for the attributes, danger-room all the military to legendary fighter and weapon/shield user, make a puppy waterfall in your dining room to harden their souls... then once it's all done, abandon and start a difficult embark near the old fort. If you live past the first year, your next immigrants will be the supersoldiers from the last fort- you'll need them against zombies.

[peskyninja]

Try imposing a challange. Once I did some sort of "Realistic" middle age army, only nobles and officer got metal armor, that kind of stuff makes the game really fun and challenging.