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[bombcar]

Set them all to gather plants or something useful.

Set them all to hunt. Some may survive.

Dwarf TheRapist may help.

[Earth Striker Lurin]

Clarification on naming bridge.

Foreign Dwarves have such complex names, especially compared to  "miner Lurin, Trader Khash, and Hunter Steve"  So they go to the naming bridge to get a name.  When the lever is pulled your name becomes the first thing you say afterward.  Most Dwarves choose the name "oh shiiiiiiiiiiiii"   I wonder why that is?

[Dorf3000]

Instead of setting up the meeting zone I suggest drafting every single one of the bastards you don't want and stationing them on the bridge. That way you don't lose a useful dwarf.

This is referred to in my circle as the "Naming Bridge™", where every dwarf goes to receive a new name. Directly from Armok. Usually deep within the magma.

Ah, I usually draft the guys I do want.. since there's usually only one or two.. sometimes none at all 

[NW_Kohaku]

I'm a little confused by this migrant hatred, and it's sudden need to be expressed in three seperate, concurrent threads.

As the God/Overseer/Communist President-For-Life of your fortress, it's your job to make a use for migrants.  If they are "useless", it's your fault for not using them.

If you somehow can't manage to figure out anything to do with dwarves in a dwarf fortress, there's even tools included in the game for you to tell future migrants that there are "no vacancies" in your fortress.

I find this a little like blaming water for being so evil when you try to make a complex water system without planning ahead - it's a force of nature YOU decided to tamper with, without recognizing the consequences, you only have yourself to blame for it.

[Zaranthan]

I agree that the first year friendly invasion is pretty annoying, but it's not unmanageable. Get your skilled dorfs some apprentices to help with the busywork and draft the remainder.

On the other hand, keeping your population very low can actually be a nice way to play. You really get to know each of your little happy faces, and overall fortress management is vastly simpler without all those mouths to feed. Megaprojects have to wait, of course.

[Mythos]

You say it's a glitch because they come despite the fortress being starving... that's not a glitch, that's you not realizing their level of technology. You do realize they haven't managed to discover radios or telephones yet, right?

[lastofthelight]

I'm saying its a glitch because it is:

1. A fortress with -no wealth-. Someone above didn't read my original post and insisted it had wealth. The original 7 did nothing, not even dig a hole, before they died. The only 'wealth' that exists is the armor the reclaim dwarves were wearing, half of which is now in magma.

2.  I was wrong. It wasn't 25 dwarves by winter. It was 25 dwarves by late autumn. I had one batch in summer, another in autumn.

How would any of these dwarves even know we -survived-? And why 25 of them? I shouldn't be getting armies of dwarves at a time.

As a poster above noted, you can get migrants despite 30 dwarves at a time dying for years on end. Migrants are absurdly non-picky.

[Nobbins]

I set the population cap to 7.  I get a grand total of one immigrant a year for some reason "A Migrant has Arrived".  I grimaced slightly but then decided it was manageable since I had prepared about 70 obsidian bedrooms just in case.

I find it more manageable AND more realistic.

1 migrant....a year? That's weird in two ways:
1. I'd never had a migrant/migrant wave show up when I was at the pop cap. It'd odd they keep coming for you. I wonder why that is.
2. How do you ever, I dont know, do anything? I can't comprehend how long things must take, with only 7+1/year dwarves. Then again, that's probably my own ignorance speaking, having never tried it. Just seems peculiar.

You can build a freakin' three z-level warehouse and five z-level castle, all in the same map, with /no/ migrants. It's actually pretty easy. It just requires some multitasking on particular dwarves.

[Graebeard]

I set the population cap to 7.  I get a grand total of one immigrant a year for some reason "A Migrant has Arrived".  I grimaced slightly but then decided it was manageable since I had prepared about 70 obsidian bedrooms just in case.

I find it more manageable AND more realistic.

1 migrant....a year? That's weird in two ways:
1. I'd never had a migrant/migrant wave show up when I was at the pop cap. It'd odd they keep coming for you. I wonder why that is.
2. How do you ever, I dont know, do anything? I can't comprehend how long things must take, with only 7+1/year dwarves. Then again, that's probably my own ignorance speaking, having never tried it. Just seems peculiar.

You can build a freakin' three z-level warehouse and five z-level castle, all in the same map, with /no/ migrants. It's actually pretty easy. It just requires some multitasking on particular dwarves.

Agreed.  Plus, waiting for your mason to wake up isn't a problem when you're running at 200 fps.

[buckets]

I'm saying its a glitch because it is:

1. A fortress with -no wealth-. Someone above didn't read my original post and insisted it had wealth. The original 7 did nothing, not even dig a hole, before they died. The only 'wealth' that exists is the armor the reclaim dwarves were wearing, half of which is now in magma.

2.  I was wrong. It wasn't 25 dwarves by winter. It was 25 dwarves by late autumn. I had one batch in summer, another in autumn.

How would any of these dwarves even know we -survived-? And why 25 of them? I shouldn't be getting armies of dwarves at a time.

As a poster above noted, you can get migrants despite 30 dwarves at a time dying for years on end. Migrants are absurdly non-picky.

Your supposed to get many dwarves per wave, it's intended. Your first 7 are only there to make things ready for the first imigration wave: dig some rooms to sleep in, and get a whole lot of food ready.

[Asmodeous]

As the God/Overseer/Communist President-For-Life of your fortress, it's your job to make a use for migrants.  If they are "useless", it's your fault for not using them.

If you somehow can't manage to figure out anything to do with dwarves in a dwarf fortress, there's even tools included in the game for you to tell future migrants that there are "no vacancies" in your fortress.

What you don't seem to get, is that we find the situation entertaining. So they are being made useful. They're amusing us. By burning alive. Hilariously.

[dukestabbington]

Yeah. nthing the confusion over migrant hate.

OP, can you tell us about your food setup? You really shouldn't be in any danger of starving that early on unless you get cut off from your wagon by antmen or something.

[RantingRodent]

OP, can you tell us about your food setup? You really shouldn't be in any danger of starving that early on unless you get cut off from your wagon by antmen or something.

Beginning of Winter 1: ....by which point a named fire imp has set fire to the entire wilderness, destroying all my food and booze

[dukestabbington]

Oh, right.

The lesson here isn't "migrants are evil," it's "move your items underground immediately." Not joking, hope you like dark gnomes/bears/raccoons/kobolds.

[buckets]

Oh, right.

The lesson here isn't "migrants are evil," it's "move your items underground immediately." Not joking, hope you like dark gnomes/bears/raccoons/kobolds.

Do this, seriously.

Also, I've always loved it when imps light the map on fire. It just looks so awesome.