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[AzuredreamsXT]

Are the mountainhomes just a terrible place to live or what, migrants keep flocking to my colony. They are just more mouths to feed, what am i going to do with them all?

Can i get them killed when they arrive somehow without negative repercussions?

[ASCIt]

Ahem... Necro, if you please...?

[Kofthefens]

They won't have made any friends with your useful dwarves, so you can happily kill away with *invites necro910 to the topic* or spikes. The only downside is ghosts. You could always build another isolated fortress on top.

EDIT:

Ahem... Necro, if you please...?

oops, beat me to it

[Necro910]

*stands up*
*adjusts shirt*
*clears throat*

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

MAGMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[AzuredreamsXT]

Ooh a second fortress, a colony of my colony. I like it!

How would i go about doing this? And making sure none of my main colony dwarves interact with the new colony?

[Curtisjack10]

Build a drawbridge over some cage traps. Put the dwarves on the bridge. Retract the bridge. Gather the dwarves in cages. Make a zoo, or send them to back to the mountain home. If you have an especially annoying dwarf, sell him to an elf merchant.

[Boost One]

Ooh a second fortress, a colony of my colony. I like it!

How would i go about doing this? And making sure none of my main colony dwarves interact with the new colony?

Close the door between your main fort and the surface, or use burrows. Using both is preferred - if your main fort needs one dwarf, open the door and assign the dwarf to that burrow. No other dwarves should follow. (Read: All the fish dissectors will follow for no reason and leave their socks in the hallways.)

[Mitchewawa]

I operate under pseudo-communism; all the useless dwarves get all the useless jobs. For example, all animal dissectors are also my woodcutters, plant gatherers, haulers, lye makers, blacksmiths (not weapon or armour), furnace operators, pump operators, strand extractors, etc.

This constant supply of work also means they don't make friends due to idle and therefore nobody cares when they die.

[ASCIt]

As another answer to your question, I pose a different question.

[JDF117]

Are the mountainhomes just a terrible place to live or what, migrants keep flocking to my colony. They are just more mouths to feed, what am i going to do with them all?

Can i get them killed when they arrive somehow without negative repercussions?

  Assign them to a burrow under a raising drawbridge and shut the drawbridge. Instantaneous death, no clutter, and IIRC drawbridged migrants can't make ghosts. (Be sure to test this, I'm not entirely sure.)

   Tangentially related to the topic, yesterday I killed 60 migrants. Only one dwarf went berserk, and one of my five billion giant cats om nommed him.

[A Spoony Bard]

Build a drawbridge over some cage traps. Put the dwarves on the bridge. Retract the bridge. Gather the dwarves in cages. Make a zoo, or send them to back to the mountain home. If you have an especially annoying dwarf, sell him to an elf merchant.

This is the greatest Idea...
How much do they sell for?

[JDF117]

Build a drawbridge over some cage traps. Put the dwarves on the bridge. Retract the bridge. Gather the dwarves in cages. Make a zoo, or send them to back to the mountain home. If you have an especially annoying dwarf, sell him to an elf merchant.

This is the greatest Idea...
How much do they sell for?

  IIRC they escape if you try to sell them. However, you could always just dump them into a magma pool.

[A Spoony Bard]

Build a drawbridge over some cage traps. Put the dwarves on the bridge. Retract the bridge. Gather the dwarves in cages. Make a zoo, or send them to back to the mountain home. If you have an especially annoying dwarf, sell him to an elf merchant.

This is the greatest Idea...
How much do they sell for?

  IIRC they escape if you try to sell them. However, you could always just dump them into a magma pool.

We may have to experiment then.
It would be great if we could trade the annoying buggers for something more useful.
Even if it means selling them into slavery to elves.

[Tevish Szat]

Sadly, selling animals is bugged: when you order the cage hauled to the depot, anything in it will be freed.  I first learned this the hard way when trying to give elves the gift of snatchers a few fortresses ago  I haven't tested what would happen if you somehow dropped the cages into the depot without having them hauled.  Animal stockpile on trapdoors above the depot?

[A Spoony Bard]

Sadly, selling animals is bugged: when you order the cage hauled to the depot, anything in it will be freed.  I first learned this the hard way when trying to give elves the gift of snatchers a few fortresses ago  I haven't tested what would happen if you somehow dropped the cages into the depot without having them hauled.  Animal stockpile on trapdoors above the depot?

I thought that only happened with hostile caged animals?