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[Garth]

Ok, I decided to start my second fort, seeing as my first was very un-orderly and ill-planned.
So this time I took a more planned approach.

However, I think I chose a bad embark location. I'm on the edge of the mountains, an easy 3/4 of the map is flat land though with a river going through it.

I've already had a trading caravan and an elf caravan just arrived. Yet no migrants, which I desperately need...
Is it because I'm near the mountains that I'm getting no migrants? Or do I need to just give it more time?

[Urist McOverlord]

You just need more time. Being near the mountains just means that you have to go down instead of in, but that's easy enough to do. I've done some really great forts on perfectly flat terrain before, it just means digging differently.

[happydog23]

I'm on the edge of the mountains, an easy 3/4 of the map is flat land though with a river going through it.

I've been playing on a map with 150z levels.  I like flat maps much more now than I used to because I've learned that I can get all the metals I want from the orcs, and its a huge pain in the rear to track and kill all the invaders on a map with 100z levels.  You can never see or find more than 1 or 2 of them at a time.  And it is guaranteed that your traders will die on top of the 100z mountain to ensure that your entire fortress takes off running to the top of the mountain to get the equipment. 

In the  next version when you can specify how much "air" and how much "ground" there is, I might never embark on an extremely hilly map again... The only reason I get mountain tiles at all now are for HFS and undergorund water.  Luckily on my current map I only have about 5 levels of "hill" and they are mostly located on one corner of the map.

[Garth]

I'm not digging down, the mountain begins with enough space to go back plenty and down plenty.
I'm fine...for now, migrants are the only thing that's lacking...

[DFPongo]

Thanks for the previos answer, reading here it seems I want to preserve the turtle shells and bones that are accumulating in my refuse pile. How do I do that? Can I get them in a bin? Or can I move my refuse in house so that they don't decompose?
Thanks

[jayseesee]

DFPongo: One stockpile for skulls/bones/shells that is subterranean, and then designate your "smelly" refuse pit to not take those items.

[geoduck]

DFPongo: One stockpile for skulls/bones/shells that is subterranean, and then designate your "smelly" refuse pit to not take those items.

Although if you put the refuse pile in its own room with a door, the resulting miasma really doesn't spread around that much; an airlock arrangement cuts it down even further. I always do this anymore, since it's one less reason for dwarfs to go outside and get attacked. (Or one less thing for me to do, building a walled outdoor dumping pit..) Dwarfs will be exposed to the miasma when they dump stuff, but a waterfall and statue garden will keep everyone quite happy.

[jayseesee]

Meh, I ramp down and then wall the ceiling, usually in my first year before the nasties!

[Blailus]

I've procured a mod from somewhere, that allows you to set which (out of every type possible) type of stones are economic or not, and it has the horrible side effect of pausing+zooming everytime I hit anything that isn't an entire floor big.  As I'm getting tired of the "You've struck microcline!" and other such stone announcements, does anyone know of a way to fix this, while preserving the ability to set any type of stone as economic?  I don't mind if it never tells me what I've found.

Also, Post Count = 1.  Yey!

[Skorpion]

That's not the stone control mod's doing. Basic DF does that.

[DFPongo]

Can I build out ever z level?
 will noise travel down one level to bother dwarves that are sleeping 1 level bellow my workshops?Will it become unstable?
I set my dwarf max to 20, was generous to the traders, and in my second season of potential imigrants I got 13!.
Some craftsmen that I was missing so thats good. Lots of bed rooms needed though.

[Quantum Toast]

will noise travel down one level to bother dwarves that are sleeping 1 level bellow my workshops?

Yes. Noise goes as many z-levels vertically as it does tiles horizontally.

[Spong]

Semi-serious but tongue firmly in cheek question: Do Dorfs Fart?

I seem to be getting miasma appearing where there is no refuse of any kind and there are no miasma producing industries or workshops nearby. Seems very random, almost wonder if my stonecrafters are letting rip as they work. 

[assimilateur]

It would be nice if they could, indeed, fart (as well as defecate and urinate, mind you), but currently something has to be rotting to produce miasma.

Do you have cats? They will kill vermin and show the remains to their owners. Those will then get dumped or hauled to a refuse pile (assuming you got one that accepts remains), but at times the dwarves might not do that quick enough before they stink up the fortress.

Also, I've been seeing underground olms die in my fortress, for reasons that could only have been cave spider-related.

[Blailus]

I've procured a mod from somewhere, that allows you to set which (out of every type possible) type of stones are economic or not, and it has the horrible side effect of pausing+zooming everytime I hit anything that isn't an entire floor big.  As I'm getting tired of the "You've struck microcline!" and other such stone announcements, does anyone know of a way to fix this, while preserving the ability to set any type of stone as economic?  I don't mind if it never tells me what I've found.

Also, Post Count = 1.  Yey!

That's not the stone control mod's doing. Basic DF does that.

So is there another mod that stops the zooming and pausing?  I don't mind the alerts themselves, but when you're doing mass exploratory digging I'd prefer it not to stop every 5 seconds.