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[cakeonslaught]

So my fort is going on 7 now and i haven't seen any migrants since the first year and i've never seen a single caravan. A giant noseless, winged llama managed to fly into my fort. He stomped a few skulls before we could kill him and made some people rot to death after. Now i'm left with 4 dorves and hoping for a few migrants. My question is: Are migrants glitched for the current version, or do they still arrive? because my fort has generated about 140k in wealth and that seemed to be enough to get more migrants than i could handle before...

[Jim Groovester]

Migrants are tied to the caravan, yes. Your civ's caravan needs to enter your map and exit in order for migrnants to come in the spring.

If you've never received a caravan, you may be stuck in a location that has no contact with anybody, or your civ is dead. Check the 'c'iv screen.

[cakeonslaught]

The civ screen does have my home civ, but it says "this land has no important leaders" which doesn't sound good for a civ that's supposed to be a monarchy.

[Jim Groovester]

Then your civ is dead. You'll have to reembark with a different civ if you want a caravan, and migrants.

[cakeonslaught]

  hahaha, maybe ill try and breed them back into existence...

[Beeskee]

I have this problem, but I did get an initial batch of migrants that pushed my fort population up.

The only thing I can think of is that I hurried on making rock trinkets to sell, so maybe the first wave came due to that before the game realized I couldn't get caravans, hehe.

[cakeonslaught]

Yeah, i got two migrations, but it stopped cold after that... now im down to 3...

[Beeskee]

Wall yourself in since nobody is coming.

[Fourdots]

The first wave or two of migrants seems to be hard-coded; they occur regardless of whether your civilization exists, and regardless of wealth - though wealth generated may affect their size, or at least I've observed it to (probably more complex than that, could conceivably also be linked to how much mining occurs).

[cakeonslaught]

I'm kind of confused as to how a dead civilization sends out a party to settle someplace. I wish there was a warning before embark, now i'll have to play with "RECLAIM FORTRESS" at the top...

[Beeskee]

I'm guessing they are the last survivors of the dead civilization.

[cakeonslaught]

Hahaha, i guess i've taken care of that problem...

[cakeonslaught]

In the legends, it says that my parent civ founded a new fortress in the same year that i founded my last one. How's that possible if the civ is dead?

EDIT: upon further inspection it appears that leftover settlers from a previous abandoned fortress have banded together and created an AI fortress?

[Fourdots]

In the legends, it says that my parent civ founded a new fortress in the same year that i founded my last one. How's that possible if the civ is dead?

EDIT: upon further inspection it appears that leftover settlers from a previous abandoned fortress have banded together and created an AI fortress?

That can happen. If a fortress is abandoned under the right conditions (no enemies on the map?) the dwarfs present form a group of wanderers, which can then interact with the world and found new fortresses. Or something like that.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

However, they won't have a king, so the civ will still ultimately be dead.