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[k4rp]

Started a new fortress on MAC version of d19, no MODs.  King showed up dressed as a migrant at the 13 dwarve mark and about an hours worth of gameplay. 

Now, this might be important in the matter:  I found an adamantine vein while doing exploratory mining looking for the maga pipe.  Also on my map is a chasm/bottomless pit.  It's a 6x6 map square.

Any thoughts as to why he came?  My wealth still shows ~25,000 bucks, with my broker at the most detailed setting.

As an aside, the really screws me up.

    1.  This location is awesome.
    2.  Both rich in gems/spidersilk/magma/adamantine.
    3.  Production chains and stocks were great for 13 dwarves.

Oh yeah, I jumped from 13 to 42 dwarves with the king, just like that.

FML or FMF I should say.

[They Got Leader]

You found adamantine. It brings the King.

[k4rp]

You found adamantine. It brings the King.

How long do I have to make the royal palace before it becomes a problem?

edit: keep in mind I don't have the resources or skilled dwarves to make the good shit.  Haven't even found gold yet.

[They Got Leader]

Um... I'm not sure myself. I just know how you got your king, not what you should do about it, sorry.

[Bauglir]

-snip-

[Lord Dakoth]

You found adamantine. It brings the King.

How long do I have to make the royal palace before it becomes a problem?

Not long enough. Never long enough, even with skilled dwarves.
Just make sure that he has the best rooms, even if they are mediocre. It will devastate him if another dwarf has equal/better rooms than him.

I'd recommend harvesting 3 adamantine wafers and making a statue to put in his room (or would 3 raw adamantine statues have more net value? I don't know offhand), then churn out cheap rock furniture. Hopefully that'll hold him. I'd wager you've got something on the order of a season before he starts getting seriously unhappy about it, but I can't be sure on that.

Raw adamantine is the same as adamantine metal.

[Trigonous]

Is it guaranteed to get the king with adamantine?  My last fort found adamantine and I never noticed a king, though it perished a few seasons later thanks to the nemesis bug.

Although it may be that I had already reached max pop without a baron.

[Nirreln]

Enable the use of raw adamantine to make stone furniture, that is assuming you don't have forges set up already and have some adamantine strands. Also the metal has a mod value of 300 and raw only 250.

[Renault]

Make things out of adamantine, with a few chairs or mechanisms of it he'll be able to last long enough for you to deck his place out. As long as its the best you are capable of, like Dakoth said, he'll be okay.

Just make sure you dont dig too deep into the adamantine. Theres a price for greed.

And Trig, as long as there is an immigrant wave, the King should come. If no migrants arrive, the king/queen wont come. So yeah, your max pop would have stopped his arrival.

[NW_Kohaku]

Raw adamantine is the same as adamantine metal.

To be more explicit, in the case of confusion:

A stone statue made out of an ore will have the same value as a metal statue made out of... a metal.  Metal furniture takes three bars, but produces no more value than the stone statues made of ore do*.  Even more important, you will probably have a mason with higher skill than you will have a metalsmith early in the game. Especially with something ultra-valuable like adamantine, you're better off getting your masons to just carve two or three statues. 

* edit: HAHA! I was lying!  I forgot that Adamantine is special in this regard, as well.  Adamantine ore is only 250, instead of the metal's 300.  It's still rediculously valuable either way, and still better used as an ore, though.

Statues have a base value of 25, times the quality modifier, times the value of adamantine, which is 300 250.  To make a royal bedroom, you need 10,000 DBs in value.  An adamantine ore statue has a minimum value of 7500 6,250.  That gets multiplied by quality, so if your masons are anything above proficient, you have "Royal" in the bag.  You do need to have either several rooms elevated to royal level, or you need to make a combined-function room with several adamantine statues to boost the value to compensate for the value drop of a single shared room. 

Is it guaranteed to get the king with adamantine?  My last fort found adamantine and I never noticed a king, though it perished a few seasons later thanks to the nemesis bug.

Although it may be that I had already reached max pop without a baron.

If you got a nemesis bug, it may just be that the file that had the data for the king was deleted.  (In fact, his arrival may have been what sparked the nemesis bug.)

[k4rp]

I immediately sited his rooms out while paused on his arrival notification.

Still, I think it's going to be pushing it.  I hope I'm not screwed.

[Urist McOverlord]

Nemesis bug? What is this?
_{I'm scared...}

[NW_Kohaku]

Nemesis bug? What is this?
_{I'm scared...}

This is the thread regarding the bug.

The nemesis bug occurs when you somehow have the data in your save folder deleted, and the game tries to load some of the data from those files, causing a crash to desktop.

This is suspected to occur occasionally when you force-quit from the Three Finger Salute menu instead of through saving and quitting the normal way.  It can also happen if you move or alter the save folder during a save.

[Renault]

If he got the king this time, but not last time, it suggests he doesn't have the nemesis though. Seems more likely that it was just his pop cap keeping him from getting any new migrants, which would prevent the King's arrival, even with adamantine discovered.

[Cuchulain]

*snicker*

Premature coronation

*snicker*