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[Reinecker]

About 4 or 5 were children then there was a puppy, 2 horse foals and 1 horse.

Basically it went like this:
*tries to give the people jobs for their profession for about 5 people*
*Gets 3 metal crafters, another 10 people are given some random jobs that don't need to be done often*
"Screw this!" 
*gives everyone else fishing and farming*

I got 5 peasants which are planned to go into the military and a total of 7 metalcrafters.

[Boksi]

7 metalcrafters?

Odd, but not impossible. Improbable, but definitely not impossible.

[Haven]

Plenty probable, if he doesn't have lava.

Good ol' hauling class citizens.

[sweitx]

I give them hauling.
Plus pump + siege operating.

Now, when I got a few idlers, I fire up my pumps.  Get them nice the strong, and they're ready for military service.

[Neoskel]

Just let them sit around talking and boosting stats like crazy. Watch them splatter thieves and snatchers when you temp-recruit them.

[Joseph Miles]

Just kill them with traps.

[Reinecker]

I'm not interested in killing them with traps since I still haven't had my first siege so I am trying to get to that 80 dwarf mark so I can start fighting some goblins. Though I do need to find some magma so it is easier to melt their stuff down though.

[Skizelo]

I always have an army of growers; no fortress plants more seeds in less time! Unless I'm building the next great wall, in which case I've got a legion of terrible masons.
Before, I used to convert all my useless to soldiers and guards; I always had ten more royal and fortress guards than I needed, and champions in the double digits. It was fun to see the fortress gates open behind a fleeing siege (hell yes I still let traps do all the real work) and a glut of guards and champions rushing out like angry ants.

[Reinecker]

I get to 46 dwarves, I lose 6. One of thirst because apparently I never have enough barrels even though I reserved 5. 3 of my miners (almost all of them) died from digging a channel for a moat. Then the rest died from hunting. I said screw it to hunting and I will just get my bones from my own animals, either way I have too many. *starts butchering kittens and puppies left and right*

My only marksdwarf with a kill got a mangled leg and a broken arm by a fire imp 
She is going to stay in my military and I am going to wait those years for her to recover.

[Axe27]

Plenty probable, if he doesn't have lava.

Good ol' hauling class citizens.

Yeah. Peasants (Or Slaves, as you might know them) are good for hauling stuff and testing your wonderful new magma/water/bridge trap.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Personally, I do not plan that much with my immigrants. Instead, I simply check the personality of each immigrant and activate the labors I find most fitting for them (usually over half a dozen for each dwarf).

Any dwarf with artistic tendencies of any kind will get all the crafting and engraving, solitary dwarves will get fishing, plant gathering, weaving, and probably wood cutting. Team workers end up with farming, brewing, cooking; organized ones get architecture, siege engineering, mechanics; merciless dwarves get fish cleaning, butchery, tanning. Ah, just about every dwarf gets masonry and carpentry.

So, I don't specialize my dwarves that much, but I still have them busy all the time.

Deathworks

[Proteus]

Most of my initial immigrants with useless or no professions get masonry, stone detailing and architecture.
Often I give many of them mining as well.

They might initially not be good in these professions, but normally I have tons of walls to be built as well as loads of mining and stone detailing jobs, so they learn quickly

Mayn of them (especially people with jobs only occasionally needed) also get second jobs in the food industry that donīt need skill levels for quality, such as butchery, plant processing and fish cleaning

[Yanlin]

If I'm ever gonna get problems with new citizens, I will sell them as pets to the elves or humans.

Trap them in cages and sell the cage.

[unobtaniumman]

The first time I got immigrants, thay came 20 at a time too. There was even a married couple with a child! It was hilarious- the husband worshipped the same religion as the wife, but "reluctantly".

[Doppel]

I like peasants, better then having useless *insert job* dwarfs, for training in weapon or armor smithing that is.