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[Darkren]

I want to make a fortress with a (dwarven) population of 1: No migrants, no strange moods, healing nerve damage (as to reduce the chance of losing said "fort" to a crippled dwarf). I've attempted to mod hack (using DFusion) my DF to change the embark to one dwarf, though to no avail. Reducing Population in the d_init file to 1 or even the default 7 still resulted in migrants multiple times, I don't particularly feel like going out of my way so much as once per year to kill off migrants and their pets.

Is there any way to mod the game to keep migrants (perhaps traders as well) from showing up?

[RiderofDark]

Nope, they're hard-coded.

Edit: Slight clarification: the first few waves are hard-coded.

[Dwarfotaur]

Remove your caravan and unset your dining room (if you set one). Designate a meeting area with [ i ] in a room your dwarf should avoid. Said room should be lockable, floodable and drainable (in that order). Everytime you get a new wave of migrants they will head straight to this room (as they path to a meeting area). Lock the door and issue your dwarf to pull a lever, this level should be hooked to flood gates from a water source. This will drown them all. Drain the room in time for the next migrant wave.

If you turn off migrants, you should only get 2-3 waves tops.

[Darkren]

the first few waves are hard-coded.

So after killing off those first few waves of migrants, I won't get bothered again?

If you turn off migrants, you should only get 2-3 waves tops.

By "turning off migrants", you mean setting population to 1, correct?

[Dwarfotaur]

I'm not sure, there might be a wave to turn them off fullstop. I only know this through the forums though; people have reported that once the population cap is hit you seem to get a few more waves.

[Smew]

if you generate a world in which the dwarves have died off, you can start a fort that will only get the first 2 waves of migrants, and no dwarf caravan.

[BuGGaTon]

If you set max population to 1 then you will get no migrant waves after the first two (in Summer+Autumn)

[Aramco]

If you are killing them, then make sure to bury them, or engrave memorial slabs.

[Peaceful Slugman]

this is a really good idea. I hope you tell us how your hermit dwarf is doing when you get his hermit fort underway.

[Pukako]

I ended up with a lone dwarf a while ago, but that was due to skeletal elk.

They wiped out the other 6 starters and several waves of migrants (why they came, I have no idea) but it was a losing battle to secure all three entrances when Urick McSurvivor spent most of his time on hemmed on top of a mountain by said elk.

Interested in your experiences.  I found one dwarf somewhat limiting in entertainment value, and it took forever to do anything as he kept getting distracted.

[Bererez]

this is a really good idea. I hope you tell us how your hermit dwarf is doing when you get his hermitage underway.

I agree! I want to take this challenge, but I really would like to read some experiences first. It seems very challenging.

[Peaceful Slugman]

maybe your last survivor had a terrible personality with things like "prone to procrastination" and "doesn't care about what his overseer says." If I was doing the one dwarf challenge I would choose the guy with the best traits like "sense of duty" and cull the rest.

[Oliolli]

Remove your caravan and unset your dining room (if you set one). Designate a meeting area with [ i ] in a room your dwarf should avoid. Said room should be lockable, floodable and drainable (in that order). Everytime you get a new wave of migrants they will head straight to this room (as they path to a meeting area). Lock the door and issue your dwarf to pull a lever, this level should be hooked to flood gates from a water source. This will drown them all. Drain the room in time for the next migrant wave.

It's is significantly easier using a Dwarven Atom Smasher.

[BaronBalloon]

you should all read the hermit fortress story responsible for making the name urist so popular. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15572.0

[Aramco]

Remove your caravan and unset your dining room (if you set one). Designate a meeting area with [ i ] in a room your dwarf should avoid. Said room should be lockable, floodable and drainable (in that order). Everytime you get a new wave of migrants they will head straight to this room (as they path to a meeting area). Lock the door and issue your dwarf to pull a lever, this level should be hooked to flood gates from a water source. This will drown them all. Drain the room in time for the next migrant wave.

It's is significantly easier using a Dwarven Atom Smasher.

I just build a room, designate it as a meeting area, send my chosen dwarf on some task, and lock the door. All you need to build is a door.