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[Thadius]

Yeah, I found that people are too terrified to migrate to my fortress, apparently because it has an eerie fatality rate of zero.

To be fair for your average fort, run by the sadistic people on these forums, zero is pretty eerie and so your dwarves figure you must be up to something really bad.

"And now I will force them all to live extremely long lives."
"How is that bad?"
"Well see, in each of their rooms, I've placed two cages.  One has a forgotten beast.  The other has a plump helmet man.  There is one lever in each of their rooms.  Every lever locks every door, and opens one of the cages.  They MIGHT get to have a wonderful, still-living meal.  On the other hand, they might die."
"...You sadistic evil bastard."

[barconis]

I haven't read this properly but what's wrong with the world gen? I'm staying on .12 for now.
Are the civs growing ok? Is it unembarkable because of farms?

Sometimes the sprawl gets a bit out of control; I haven't run out of places to embark, but they aren't always the best places. Part of the problem is that settlements are getting destroyed/abandoned during worldgen and aren't getting removed, so there will be region-sized blocks marked as settlements (unembarkable) with nobody in them. Also, it takes a lot longer to generate a world in this version; maybe 10 times longer at the default world size. (I haven't timed it out, that's just an estimate.)

I've still got .12 forts going, so I can wait for the next version to gen new ones.

[Mekboy]

Yeah, I found that people are too terrified to migrate to my fortress, apparently because it has an eerie fatality rate of zero.

To be fair for your average fort, run by the sadistic people on these forums, zero is pretty eerie and so your dwarves figure you must be up to something really bad.

They think that since you've obviously gone to such lengths to hush up the number of deaths, pretty much everyone there dies.

[FleshForge]

I've just tried reclaim because I picked a slightly shitty embark location, moved it a bit and ... there's the wagon from previous embark with all the stuff very conveniently still loaded in it.  I guess the scatter-on-reclaim stuff has been taken out, which I think is good and bad (very tempting to abuse).

correction, the food has been dragged around, which is actually pretty sensible - what wild animal is going to drag a friggin anvil around the map anyway?

[DukeOfVandals]

I encountered the same thing after many, many, many world gens this morning - outside of 5 years it's impossible to embark.  I also discovered playing as a dead civ is now nearly impossible - after at least 50 gens using parameters from .12 that reliably produced dead dwarf civs, the dwarfs were thriving.

(Good timing for this mess, as I won't be playing DF much until next year, thanks to College Football and Halo: Reach.  Problems should be worked out by then....)

Up the volcanism parameters, especially the minimum volcanoes in the world.

I like not having to dig for magma, so I figured, "What could it hurt?"

No civs. None. No goblins, no humans, no elves, no dwarfs.

After 4 embarks as the only living civilization on the planet, I genned a new world with less volcanoes/volcanism and everything was normal again. Try it out.

[Gearheart]

I didn't get the first two waves of migrants. I waited a year and then got a wave of 24, which I'm pretty sure is higher than the maximum limit for the initial waves, the ones which are made up.

[Heliman]

I just got a legendary swordsdwarf in my second migrant wave, apparently, he's also a fish dissector.

Pic:

He also dropped all his armor when he showed up, lol he must be a warrior trying to forget his horrible past, I vow to look him up in legends someday

[Quietust]

Out of curiosity, what do the Thoughts and Preferences for these strange migrants (merchants, drunks, war/hunting peasants) look like? Do they contain any material/food preferences, or are they blank (like they are with creatures created during worldgen, e.g. your King/Queen)?

[Dwarfnorris101]

i got a legendary axedorf in my first .13 wave..first wave in god knows how many years...

[Sphalerite]

Out of curiosity, what do the Thoughts and Preferences for these strange migrants (merchants, drunks, war/hunting peasants) look like? Do they contain any material/food preferences, or are they blank (like they are with creatures created during worldgen, e.g. your King/Queen)?

The Merchant and the Thief that showed up as immigrants in my fortress both have perfectly normal thoughts and preferences, just like every other dwarf.  They are also forming relationships with other dwarves normally, and will both happily do no-labor jobs like harvesting plants, pulling levers, and deconstructing walls.  I just can't assign any labors to them.

[Heliman]

Same with my drunk, It's like he's a noble who makes no mandates and needs no established room. It eats, drinks and does all the default labors, only I CAN'T CHANGE THEM.

[Impudence12]

The new version of dwarf therapist allows you to change their labors. I got a trained war peasant!

[Urist Imiknorris]

Same with my drunk, It's like he's a noble who makes no mandates and needs no established room. It eats, drinks and does all the default labors, only I CAN'T CHANGE THEM.

Make him a noble. I had a drunk for a king once in 31.12.

[AngleWyrm]

Farming seems to have stopped working after a couple seasons. The farming plot flashes between planted plot and images of mushrooms, and the farmers go to the field to tend it, but no one collects crops from the fields. Farming stopped, and the food stores have emptied out.

Here is the Saved game if anyone is interested.

[snooptodd]

Farming seems to have stopped working after a couple seasons. The farming plot flashes between planted plot and images of mushrooms, and the farmers go to the field to tend it, but no one collects crops from the fields. Farming stopped, and the food stores have emptied out.

Here is the Saved game if anyone is interested.

You have harvest turned off in the orders menu.
o - f to turn it on.