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[Iapetus]

I lost my fortress to a massive goblin invasion.

After doing a bit of exploration in Advneture mode (during which I found loads of non-aggressive dwarves and humans visiting it, and killed a couple of aggressive goblins), I decided to reclaim it.

There are still loads of friendly humans and dwarves there, listed in the U > Others screen, but I also keep getting messages about "ambushes", and when that happens, some additional "hostile" people get added to the Others list (at this moment, 1 human hammerman, 1 swordsdwarf, 1 human swordsman, 3 human bards, 3 human poets, 1 goblin poet, and 1 goblin dancer).  But none of these "hostiles" are actually hostile, and seem to ignore my dwarves (and the other "friendly" visitiors).

What is this all about?  Can I safely ignore them, or will they turn on me later? Can I safely attack them, or will that risk turning  the "friendlys" hostile as well and causing a  loyalty cascade?

[PatrikLundell]

No actual answer, but it sounds to me like something has been screwed up internally so what should have been visitors are reported as ambushers.
I'd probably check the bug tracker for a similar report, and file one if one cannot be found.

Edit:
From the main page:

I also fixed some of the problems with visitors vs. retired sites, and various minor typos and issues.

[Iapetus]

I'm getting normal visitors as well.

[greycat]

Edit:
From the main page:

I also fixed some of the problems with visitors vs. retired sites, and various minor typos and issues.

The detailed changelog shows 9176: Lots of 'other' units appear after retiring fortress (merchants/pack animals/now hostile visitors).

[Iapetus]

Additional info:

When the dwarf caravan arrived, all the "friendly" dwarves became flagged as merchants, nd then left when the caravan left.
Ditto for "friendly" humns when the human cravan arrived.

I've now just got the visitors, and the non-hostile "hostiles".

I've also had a vile horde of darkness turn up (consisting of two gobbo marksmen), and it didn't cause any of the "hostile" guests to start attacking.