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[Herpaderpalerp]

I had a fortress of about 20-30 dwarves. All was well, but the daily routine was beginning to be a drag so I retired the fortress and went off to kill a king or two. After leaving it and returning in about a year gametime, I now have 1 new dwarf and two humans (all 3 military) just passively standing around my fortress, resilient to my control. One of the ambient humans has also somehow managed to become my Hammerer. In Legends it tells me that 7 humans, 3 dwarves and an elf migrated roughly a season ago but it still doesn't give me authority to give them work. Not only that, but it would seem that I'm missing 5 humans, 2 dwarves and my elf buddy. 

Is this a known glitch about unretiring fortresses?

[Aslandus]

Not taht I know of, perhaps you should write a bug report, but I do know that when I reclaimed a fortress (about three years after it was abandoned) there were still two merchants from the caravan that was there when we left hanging around, as well as a bunch of corpses which I assume is the rest of the caravan... they are still here, and I basically use them to stand watch when my dwarves are busy working... I wonder how long I can keep them alive...

[utunnels]

I'm not sure if it is a bug or feature.
But you can play as an adventurer later and start from/enter your retired fortress and there can be many things happen there: new NPCs, new factions, wars, merchants, etc...

So during the time you are absent, your fortress is still developing.

[BlackFlyme]

On the other hand, not being able to control some of the dwarves may not be intentional.

Not controlling humans or elves isn't really a bug, as I don't think that multi-racial fort support has been added yet.

[utunnels]

They can even die or go berserk. I want to know what happened during my absence, a civil war, perhaps?

[Herpaderpalerp]

Well, I've crashed a season in about 4 times now... It must be a bug. On each occasion of reloading I would have a different set of inhabitants... sometimes I would have a couple more dwarves here and there... sometimes some of the dwarves were actually controllable! But the constant crashing has really got my hopes down so I think I'll just avoid unretiring for now.

Thanks for the input!

[ptb_ptb]

But the constant crashing has really got my hopes down

I'm currently looking into that. My tentative conclusion is that reclaiming an abandoned fortress may be safer than unretiring a retired fortress. (Although abandoning a fortress has its downsides).