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[Don Blake]

In all the world's I've generated so far, the dwarves don't seem to do much in legend mode beside build a few fortresses and sit around watching the other civilizations rip each other apart in glorious brutal pointless wars.  Hell, in the last world I generated, there was a human/kobold war that went on for nearly seventy years, whereas the dwarves just sat back except for the occasional megabeast rampage.

Anyone else have this issue?  Anyone know any ways to get the dwarves off their lazy bums and out properly fighting all comers?

[DarkDragon]

Take away their booze?

Seriously though, I think it has to do with the fact the dwarves only form sites on mountain tiles. IN one of my smaller worlds there is 1 dwarven civ, and all 3 of their sites are in a little valley surrounded entirely by mountains, inaccessible to the outside world.

I think the dwarves prefer it tbh. I've seen similar things happen in other worlds, dwarves tend to form their cities tucked away as deep into a corner of a mountainside as they can find.

[Aspgren]

What the hell do you expect from bands of alcoholics, living in caves?

[They Got Leader]

I think that they are all holed up in their mountainhomes, waiting for the humans, kobolds, elves and goblins to weaken themselves off. Then they will lead their glorious champions from the hills and scourge the land. Elves going first, of course.

[NW_Kohaku]

My dwarves are all in eternal warfare with elves until they run out of dwarves to send to the frontlines... then they have to put some damn spawn of elf slaves someone brought home as spoils of war in charge, a farmer no less, and SURPRISE! We're suddenly at peace with the elves after a century of warfare.

My dwarven civ was generally doing well, batting aside goblins, taking elf retreats, annexing the land of a dwarf civ that was completely ripped apart by the elf empire after being bled out by the goblins...

I think it depends on how close your civ is to a goblin or elf town, especially if the elves or goblins can enslave one another.