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[Girlinhat]

So I wanted a hermit challenge.  To do this best, I wanted to kill off the dwarves in worldgen.  I debated how to do this and still have a playable world with elves and humans and goblins, and especially with kobolds.

After much tinkering and modding, I found the key to having no dwarven caravans, liaison, or migrants!

d_init -> Population cap set to 0
entity_default.txt -> Dwarf entry -> remove the tag [ACTIVE_SEASON:AUTUMN]

There will now be a dwarven civilization active and flourishing during worldgen.  But, during fortress play, you will get 2 waves of migrants - these are hardcoded to arrive no matter what - and you will never get a liaison or a caravan from the dwarves.  For all intents and play purposes, your civ is "extinct".

This must be done with a new world, and cannot be undone mid-play.  You can raise the population cap again for migrants, but will never get a caravan.

[KodKod]

How interesting. I'm going to experiment with ways to get the little buggers to all die off for reals now, just to see what I can make of it.

[ASCIt]

Frozen wasteland with no mountains?

[Loud Whispers]

I always thought it was a bit odd how they always managed to send a liason on time every time to a small hut on a glacier in the middle of nowhere. On the other side of the world.

[KodKod]

Come to think of it I remember playing an extinct civilization before. I just went back and checked the logs I kept for that game and apparantly, despite the civ being extinct, I still got trade caravans.

[Nonsequitorian]

What about other civs? Why would you rather have no Dwarves and other civs than Dwarves and no other civs?

[killerx243]

I always thought it was a bit odd how they always managed to send a liason on time every time to a small hut on a glacier in the middle of nowhere. On the other side of the world.

They dig tunnels but not close enough to your fort to help you.

[Loud Whispers]

What about other civs? Why would you rather have no Dwarves and other civs than Dwarves and no other civs?

Hermit challenge

[dwarfhoplite]

Thanks I'll try this out.

[Ki11aGhost]

Thanks I'll try this out.

Ñ

[Noodz]

In my experience, i never had trouble getting at least one extinct dwarf civ. All you need is a good number of dwarf civs (about 4 is good), a decent number of megabeasts, and a decent world age. At least one dwarf civ will end up spawning in a terrible spot surrounded by aggressive enemies and suffer at least one megabeast rampage a year. It also helps that i play fortress defense by 100, i'd say about half of the dwarven civs are gone for good.

[GoombaGeek]

Thanks I'll try this out.

Ñ

What about stalkers? They aren't implemented yet

Or did you mean Ñ?!

[Donuts]

Thanks I'll try this out.

Ñ

What about stalkers? They aren't implemented yet

Or did you mean Ñ?!

What about Ñ?

[dwarfhoplite]

It turned out to be a very bad idea. Low population was boring. I built a great city only to be inhabited by 4 or so families.

[Loud Whispers]

It turned out to be a very bad idea. Low population was boring. I built a great city only to be inhabited by 4 or so families.

Sounds like it had potential. A skeleton crew wandering lonely halls.