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[YvAd]

I've had the 2 hard coded waves, and a liason has come twice. My population cap is set at 0, i am trying to do a 1-dwarf fort. Yet, another batch of migrants just arrived. What's going on, and how do i stop them for good?

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Kill. Everyone.

[Lielac]

I've had the 2 hard coded waves, and a liason has come twice. My population cap is set at 0, i am trying to do a 1-dwarf fort. Yet, another batch of migrants just arrived. What's going on, and how do i stop them for good?

I believe the liaison has to speak with a dwarf and leave the map alive to transmit the population. That or I'm pretty sure there's a DFHack thing to instantly update your civ on your population...

[Sutremaine]

I don't think the population cap works if it's set to less than 4.

DFHack is probably the best bet if you want to enforce an extremely low popcap.

[YvAd]

I don't think the population cap works if it's set to less than 4.

DFHack is probably the best bet if you want to enforce an extremely low popcap.

How do i do that with dfhack?

[Sutremaine]

r3 comes with fix/population-cap, which instantly reports your population back to the Mountainhomes.

Quick edit: There may have been a more comprehensive script created in the meantime. I'm having a look for it.

[YvAd]

This is getting incredibly frustrating. 6 waves of migrants i have had to kill now. My dwarf is spending half his time collecting their gear and building coffins...

[Larix]

The actual one-dwarf-fort is currently simply not supported by the game. Any attempt at it basically turns into an abominable crime against dwarfkind, because if you only have one dwarf, you _always_ get migrants if they can appear on the map at all.

You could try to get one of the "tiny island" maps to work, make an embark encompassing a complete island (with water on all edges) and prevent immigration by lack of access. Or you could build a normal low-population fort and split a solitary hermit off that fort.

Neither would necessarily be exactly what you envisioned, but did you seriously plan your hermit fort as "massmurderdwarf: murder for solitude", "massmurderdwarf 2: massmurder harder" and "massmurderdwarf 3: the burying"?

[YvAd]

So... what i am hearing is, if i put water on the edges of the map- no migrants?
That or my hermit will be a serial killer hermit >

[Starweaver396]

I thought setting the cap to 0 made it say "No pop cap!"
That might just be with babies though...

Also, attachments at bottom of post give the option to "Don't use smileys." > Only works for NOEMOTION hermits.

[YvAd]

I thought setting the cap to 0 made it say "No pop cap!"
That might just be with babies though...

Also, attachments at bottom of post give the option to "Don't use smileys." > Only works for NOEMOTION hermits.

Setting the cap to 1 didn't work either, so i think what others were saying is accurate; it won't work under 4 dwarves.
One thing i have noticed- therapist still lists ghosts as dwarves, so will 3 ghosts and my guy count?

[Spitemaster]

You might try regenning, and set the max age of dwarves to 1 during generation (set it back to normal after that).  Then they'll all die out and there will be no dwarves (after the first two hardcoded waves).

[Starweaver396]

Ha, you went up from serial kill to genocide.

[nasobema]

You might try regenning, and set the max age of dwarves to 1 during generation (set it back to normal after that).  Then they'll all die out and there will be no dwarves (after the first two hardcoded waves).

How does that work?
I had a thread recently on genning a playable dwarfless world in order to play a low populated fortress. There was no satisfing solution.

After setting max age to 1 the dwarfs civs always kept respawning new dwarfs and thus never died out!
Only once I made them all male they died out and dwarf mode was disabled.

[Tribea]

Them derty elveses! Them been tryin ta rascal owr 'spplies fo eve. N now emz tryin ta tak owr drems o akin a un dorf fort!