On my long 17+ years ongoing fortress i decided to make a backup save and retire it so i could check a bit the legends to see what happened around as the ingame civ -> news isn't any good for any kind of detail you want.
After checking, instead of reloading my backup save, i decided to simply unretire the fortress, hoping the nasty bugs wouldn't happen (hostile non-hostile, thousand of merchants and animals coming out of nowhere and crippling performance etc...)
And it unretired just fine, no problem to be seen.
Oh the old annoying
noble "required" bug is still there in 44.05 , but i noticed , out of that for some reason i had now a captain of the guards and a hammerer (despite i didn't assigned those position on purpose in my fort), there was something actually missing
before retiring the fort
after unretiring the fort
My baron wasn't listed anymore ?
I thought it was yet another unretiring bug i hadn't ran into before, so i checked the "u" list and quickly noticed that this guy wasn't there anymore ?
He's been in my fort for years before i apointed him as baron, so he wasn't a "baron migrant" .
I retired again the fortress and went to check whatever happened to my baron
What ? the guy just deserted us and went to settle somewhere else ?
That's the first time i have something like this happening, but i wonder can it happen at actual gameplay time or is that only possible in "worldgen" update time like when you leave your fort "living/frozen" and play another one or adventure in the same world ?