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BigIndianFish

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No migrants, no merchants, even though civ is not dead.
« on: January 26, 2019, 11:59:13 am »
Hey everyone, I started playing dwarf fortress about a month ago and I love it, but after creating a new fortress I encountered a reccurent problem and I don't know what's causing it.

The first migrant wave is nowhere to be seen, even after 3 years, same goes for merchants. I didn't get any message about it ("no outpost liaison, how curious", "no migrants have come this year" etc..) Which is really curious to me. I did check my files and the migrant caps (strict and normal) are set to 200 and 220, I actually didn't change anything before the problem occured, or even after that.
I figured I would create a new fort and make sure to embark near my civilisation, no luck, I then created a new world, made sure my civilisation was alive and well, embarked near them, then far away, then I reinstalled the game, and I'm still not getting any migrants. Only visitors (some of them dwarfs).

I'm sure the problem is something really dumb and I should have figured it out long ago, but I just wasn't able to find someone with the same problem.

Any suggestion would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

« Last Edit: January 26, 2019, 12:09:00 pm by BigIndianFish »
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Sarmatian123

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Re: No migrants, no merchants, even though civ is not dead.
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2019, 01:16:35 pm »
Did you try running plain vanilla client alone on those embarks?
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BigIndianFish

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Re: No migrants, no merchants, even though civ is not dead.
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2019, 02:26:48 pm »
Quote from: Sarmatian123 on January 26, 2019, 01:16:35 pm
Did you try running plain vanilla client alone on those embarks?

I ran both dfhack and vanilla, I downloaded the game again to make sure I had all the default files.
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mikekchar

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Re: No migrants, no merchants, even though civ is not dead.
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2019, 04:10:08 am »
The only way I know of not to get the first 2 waves of migrants is if you set your population cap to 7 or lower.  However, you usually still get a caravan (I *think* -- I have to admit I don't actually remember).

In either case, I would blow away (or rename, anyway) you DF directory (the one with all the config files and saves) and reinstall.  It *has* to be something in the config.
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Re: No migrants, no merchants, even though civ is not dead.
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2019, 09:13:26 am »
Was one of your dwarfs named king?

What method did you use to ensure your civ is alive?
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