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[Matoro]

As title says, I got regular migrant wave but announcement was "some migrants have arrived, despite the danger.
What does it means?
My fort has no any kind of danger. No sieges, it's not evil area...

[Michaelsoftman]

Have you had any recent deaths in your fort?

[Matoro]

I had little tantrum spiral started from little accident with magma. ~20 dead dwarves in the accident and spiral. Population is now 166.
But at time migrants arrived, there was just few unhappy dwarves.

Now I got another migration wave, with same "despite the danger" -text.

[Yaotzin]

Well magma is dangerous.

[Michaelsoftman]

I had little tantrum spiral started from little accident with magma.

The migrants know that they're next, and are coming in shorter waves.

[nightwhips]

To be specific, a high death rate can throttle migration, but you get that warning first. If your death rate goes down, I think the warning ceases. If it goes up, the migrants stop.

[smeeprocket]

166 dwarves? What is your FPS at btw?

[Matoro]

To be specific, a high death rate can throttle migration, but you get that warning first. If your death rate goes down, I think the warning ceases. If it goes up, the migrants stop.

Okay, that answered pretty much what I was asking. Doesen't matter, my population cap is full now...

166 dwarves? What is your FPS at btw?

It is about 80.  I use DFhack to dump everything unwanted and clean all splatter. Also I have temperature and weather turned off for now. There is not much weather and temperature does not affect much in temperate woodlands. I had temperature turned on some time because I was testing my new magma-flooding-trap with goblin siege.

[zehive]

Congratulations, keep it up and you get even cooler messages

[Loud Whispers]

Congratulations, keep it up and you get even cooler messages

*Fell laughter*

[janglur]

"Noone is crazy enough to visit your gods-forsaken doomhole."

[Nyxalinth]

I had 30 dwarves get wiped out in a Necro attack.  Migrants kept coming like it wasn't even a thing, and I had no messages, either.  Must have been the fortress wealth

[gildarumarth]

I lost more than hundred dorfs to a tantrum spiral once and got 'Even knowing this place will be their tomb migrants have arrived'

[Hyndis]

Most dwarven fortresses are hazardous. Its the rare fortress that isn't hazardous!

Even my absurdly over engineered fortresses do need a continual supply of peasants to keep the population up, which is why I like to start dwarven breeding early on.

On average, a couple will produce one child every other year or so. It takes twelve years for a child to grow up into a useful dwarf.  So with a single couple you will get a new useful dwarf every other year.

Two couples get you a useful dwarf every year. Four couples get you two useful dwarves every year, and so forth.

I aim for at least 10 breeding couples, and I keep them safe inside the fortress. This gets me 5 peasants per year on average, which is enough to keep up with losses from various unfortunate accidents.

[Aspgren]

Some migrants have arrived, despite the danger (of being called elves)