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[Spinning Welshman]

About a year and a half ago my my 8 year old fortress stopped getting migrants. I have had a few seiges, but nothing quite bad enough to stop migrants coming to my fortress (at least in my experience, they've been happy to turn up in the middle of them in the past)

So, my question is this: If I have somehow completely depleted the dwarven civilization (which would mean they'd only been about 100 strong) then how to I go about finding out?

Edit: I have since recieved a liaison, I don't know if he'd appear if the civ had died out or not, but hopefully that adds some clarification.

Edit: Eventually I got some migrants, after 2 years of nothing. Confusing, but I think that answers my questions, There must be some dwarves out there somewhere 

[imperium3]

What's your population? Have you changed the population limit at all?

For FPS reasons there is a population limit (default 200) and if you have more dwarves than that you won't get migrants. Or births I think (excluding dwarves who are already pregnant). Could you have hit that already?

[Spinning Welshman]

What's your population? Have you changed the population limit at all?

For FPS reasons there is a population limit (default 200) and if you have more dwarves than that you won't get migrants. Or births I think (excluding dwarves who are already pregnant). Could you have hit that already?

Sorry, I should have included that: I have set my population limit to 100 (to save my fps) and my current population is 50, with 12 children. Also, as a matter of interest, I'm quite sure you do still get pregnancies after you pass the population cap. I'm just wondering how I can find out if the dwarven civ is still alive out there, or whether there's something else that's interfering with migrants. It's annoying because I need more dorfs for my hauling 

[Johuotar]

I've had the same problem. Clarification of causes would be nice.

[ayoriceball]

What's your population? Have you changed the population limit at all?

For FPS reasons there is a population limit (default 200) and if you have more dwarves than that you won't get migrants. Or births I think (excluding dwarves who are already pregnant). Could you have hit that already?

Sorry, I should have included that: I have set my population limit to 100 (to save my fps) and my current population is 50, with 12 children. Also, as a matter of interest, I'm quite sure you do still get pregnancies after you pass the population cap. I'm just wondering how I can find out if the dwarven civ is still alive out there, or whether there's something else that's interfering with migrants. It's annoying because I need more dorfs for my hauling 

Make a backup of your current fort. Abandon the fort. Go into Dwarf Fortress mode and see how many statue icons your civilization has. Alternatively, check out legends mode for any interesting events. If your civ started in a tiny mountain range or was in a war, that may explain why they had so few people.

[Spinning Welshman]

What's your population? Have you changed the population limit at all?

For FPS reasons there is a population limit (default 200) and if you have more dwarves than that you won't get migrants. Or births I think (excluding dwarves who are already pregnant). Could you have hit that already?

Sorry, I should have included that: I have set my population limit to 100 (to save my fps) and my current population is 50, with 12 children. Also, as a matter of interest, I'm quite sure you do still get pregnancies after you pass the population cap. I'm just wondering how I can find out if the dwarven civ is still alive out there, or whether there's something else that's interfering with migrants. It's annoying because I need more dorfs for my hauling 

Make a backup of your current fort. Abandon the fort. Go into Dwarf Fortress mode and see how many statue icons your civilization has. Alternatively, check out legends mode for any interesting events. If your civ started in a tiny mountain range or was in a war, that may explain why they had so few people.

Thanks for the tip. 
It's entirely possible that the level of savagery in my world finished most of them off in world gen. I have my own recipe that creates alot of high savagery good and evil areas, so it'd make sense if that reduced their numbers, as of yet though, I can't quite be bothered to go through legends and look... I'll wait and see if I get any migrants over the next few years, and if not, then I'll have a look. 

Edit: As I was typing this reply, I got some migrants  It's been about 2 years since I've had any... But there they are, saying they arrived despite the danger, despite there being no danger at all. I'm still somewhat confused as to the reason they stayed away so long, but I guess that answers my questions