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[SnuffleKitty]

Okay, so, the wiki informs me that immigration is based on the wealth of my fortress, as reported by the caravans. But the thing is, I was a bit slow about getting my fort sorted around the time the first caravan arrived, so I received no immigrants that first season. No problem, except now this has happened:

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He just goes berserk right off the bat? It's madness. His guard killed him, then left, and then the donkey went insane as well. The bright side to all of this is that I got some free stuff; for whatever that's worth.

-Snuffles

[Tarran]

Clearly your fortress is cursed, the sight of it makes even donkeys go insane...

[Dave Mongoose]

Maybe he was having a bad day...

Did you check his status page?

I've heard of npc dwarves getting unhappy if they're stuck on your map for a long time, but so soon after arriving on the map? hmm...

Maybe it's an unexpected effect of using dwarves created during world gen for NPC positions like liasons and merchants? It could be that his entire family was killed a year before world gen ended, but world gen doesn't check happiness levels so it only registered what his mood should be when he came onto your map?

All just theories, lol. Maybe try savescumming and looking him up in legends mode?

[Rotten]

Clearly it was the sight of so many untouched trees and plants that drove him to madness.

You know what to do.

Seriously, though, I agree with Dave. He probably got a lot of family murdered in world gen and the game doesn't track happiness outside of your fortress, so the minute he walked onto the map he remembered all his dead family and went berserk. Can you backup your save and check legends?

[Marconius]

Why are we looking for a cause when the cure is so simple? Go kill the bastard!

[tastypaste]

You'll still get migrants. I was once channeling out a moat and the caravan walked across the channel designated square at the same moment the miner dug it out. They were trapped in the empty moat. They went berserk, died and I made a ramp to retrieve their loot. Migrants still came even though the caravan never made it off the map. As a bonus, one of my dwarfs made an artifact using the bones of the merchant.