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[Shrugging Khan]

Well...I have 6 1x7 tile fields, farming all underground crops in equal numbers during the year. And two growers. Is that going to be any good?

[Shrugging Khan]

Crap. Crapcrapcrapcrapcrap.

I just noticed - after a year into this fortress! - that I don't have an anvil. I didn't bother with heavy industry yet due to a lack of fuel, but now that I've got enough...crap! I forgot to bring an anvil. And there's no caravans coming either. Halp plox? 

So, Edit: There's no Caravans come in within the entire first year, and a total of two and a half migrants came. Terrifying biome is at fault for the low migrant numbers, I suppose, but is turning off the merchants, too? Or is that simply my lack of (17k) wealth?

[FleshForge]

That's kind of a bad sign.  Hit "c" and look at your parent civ, if it has no important leaders then your civilization is basically dead.  If you're not getting a dwarf caravan and you don't have an anvil, then you will NEVER be able to make anything out of metal, although you can certainly pick up all the crap the goblins will bring you.

[Shrugging Khan]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....!
No important leaders. I am so not happy with this. 

But thanks for the tip. Gonna gen a new world...goodbye, my supposedly-perfect embark site!

[FleshForge]

It is useful to check if you can start a dwarf character in Adventurer mode before embarking, but really the only way to know this for sure is either look through world history (a pain) or embark and check the "c"ivilizations screen (sometimes heartbreaking).

[Shrugging Khan]

I did check, but at embark time it only had an entry for the Ant-Men. That led me to the conclusion that in this version, I'd only have entries for civilisations that actually sent traders or sieges already.

So while we're talking about that one: If pre-embark, the tab-screen told be there's be contact and trade with a civ, but there's no entry in the c-screen for a civ post-embark, what does it mean?

Edit: It's kind of a big deal for me to have all four types of civilisations around and active. Not happy otherwise.

[FleshForge]

After embarking, you don't see civilizations in the report until you have contact with them except for dwarves, which you always see - for elves and humans, this means caravans; for kobolds and goblins, the contact is generally less friendly.
more clearly: check both, before embarking and after embarking.

[Shrugging Khan]

Thing is, last time I embarked I didn't even see the dwarves...at least not until some migrants came around (and then it was all "no important leaders").

[FleshForge]

When I embark I can always see dwarves on the civ report, but then I try to make sure I have a living dwarf culture before embarking - if you don't then I'd take that as a bad sign.

By the way if you hit "R" (rooms report) right after embarking, you know right away whether you have happy friendly neighbors below ("upright adamantine [weapontype]")

[Shrugging Khan]

Ah, I always tried that trick with the stocks screen. No surprise it didn't work 

[Mel_Vixen]

But thanks for the tip. Gonna gen a new world...goodbye, my supposedly-perfect embark site!

Actually you can gen the same world with another history seed.

[Shrugging Khan]

That's a fairly ingenious idea. I'll see whether its compatible with my PerfectWorldDF-created worldgen. Thanks!