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[RavenZ]

Hello there,

I have a question for those who deal with modding. How to reduce the amount of dorfs arriving in waves of migration? With all due respect but 58 dwarfs in a one single wave of immigration that is damn too much - not to mention that my farmers was slapping (break in work, partys... bla bla bla) - what caused lack of food... Everyone knows that dwarfs can hold for some time the lack of food but when the last barrel of booze was wasted in party between farmers - that was it... You can imagine what was next... TANTRUM! BERSERKERS!

But i must admit that soaking blood on teh marble smooth floors and marble walls must have look awesome...

[Sutremaine]

There is a modding forum here...

Anyway, in this case the only control you have over the population is with the pop cap, which has a delayed effect due to relying on the in-game liaison to function. Limiting trade and wealth production has some effect on the size of migration waves, but the only way to guarantee not getting swamped is to set the cap to 7 and use your starting dwarves plus the two hardcoded waves to set up your booze and food supplies (beds are surprisingly optional). You'll still get waves of the same size, but you'll have enough supplies to see you through until you can get those migrants contributing to the fortress.

And don't let dwarves party either. If your concern is keeping them from wandering the surface or caverns, meeting zones and civilian alerts will keep them idling in safe areas. Civilian alerts are more for separating surface and subterranean areas of the map, and are a good way to get migrants to move their asses into the fortress instead of standing around on the surface flashing stupidly.