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[glueheaded]

In one of my fortresses, I tried to build an underground reservoir of water. I messed up and caused flooding, so I had to abandon for the sake of my fps.

After my failure, I decided to play adventure mode with the same world. I wanted to look for my old fortress but I forgot where it was. I was halfway across the map from it when I bumped into the dwarves from the fortress. I knew it was them becaue of my nicknames. However, they ran away from me since I killed one of their mules a few days ago, which was wearing clothes for some reason. I decided to find the old fortress first before following them further. After I found it, I tried to track down the dwarf group but I was unable to locate them.

I tried using Legends to track them down, but all I found out was that they had all joined some new group, which didn't really help me with my search. Does anyone know where they could have gone?


tl;dr 
So after abandoning your fortress, where do your dwarves go? Do they become ungenerated, or do they still exist within the game world?

[Smew]

They try to make their way towards a town that belongs to your civ, iirc.

[HammerHand]

Wait... so you're saying they all become migrants for some other fortress?

The secret of the mountainhomes... revealed!  Migrants do not come to your fortress because it is awesome.  They come because they just decided to up and abandon their old one!

[smjjames]

I think I've seen them take over and 'found' abandoned elven retreats before.

I've never had dwarves from a previous fortress migrate to a new one that I'm playing. It would be cool if they did though.

[XSI]

Migrants you get are randomly generated(The king and associates) is the only exception), but yes, after you abandon, some may die, some escape(Results vary based on how/when it was abandoned), but in general, the survivors become a migration wave on the world map, and(Not 100% sure, but I heard of people trying it) it is possible to re-start a dwarven civilisation by starting several fortresses close together, and then abandoning them, the starting 7 from all the forts may come together in a place(Possibly a ruin) and build a new mountainhome.

[Slogo]

I wonder what happens to the dwarves if you abandon on a micro island.

[Jebraltix]

They die while trying to run away from the wildlife that will soon tear apart your fortress

[XSI]

Unless you've destroyed all the wildlife, which should be possible when you find an island that fits in a single embark zone.

In which case, I think they would just stand around, they have nowhere to go, and nowhere they -can- go.