0009404: Retiring a fort floods it with former merchant caravan personnel

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0009404

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Mode -- Reclaim

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2015-12-21 16:15

2015-12-22 18:26

Reporter

Walkabout

Assigned To

Dwarfu

Priority

normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

have not tried

Status

resolved

Resolution

duplicate

Platform

Windows

OS Version

Win 7 64 bit

Product Version

0.42.03

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Summary

0009404: Retiring a fort floods it with former merchant caravan personnel

Description

In some, perhaps most (?), cases, when I retire a fort that I have been running for at least a couple of years, it appears to flood the fortress with peoples from the many merchant caravans that have previously visited the fortress. It may or may not be related to making an adventurer at the site immediately after retiring the fortress. I don't think it only happens when you make an adventurer, but I have not tested that possibility.

I have no mods on the below saved games. I run Ironhand's graphics pack, and I made a change to the creature raws to remove the "Adopts_Owner" tag from cats. This world was generated fresh for 42.03, but this issue existed for me in the 40.xx versions as well.

A saved game posted on DFFD BEFORE retiring the fort, with steps to reproduce is here: http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11533 [^]

A saved game posted on DFFD AFTER I retired then reclaimed the fort is here:
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11534 [^]

Steps To Reproduce

To reproduce with the initial save, before the fortress has been retired. (steps 2 and 3 may not be necessary but are included as that is usually what I do):

1) Load the linked save and retire the fortress (called "Stormcrown").
2) Create an adventurer who starts out in the Dwarven fortress "Stormcrown", part of "The Brave Mine" dwarven civilization.
3) You can retire that adventurer right away, or wander around the site, noting that it is filled with lots of merchants of different races.
4) Optional. If you retired the adventurer from step 3 above, you can reclaim the fortress and see all the left over merchants scattered around the map.

Additional Information

The additional save that takes place after I retired the fortress, created an adventurer, retired that adventurer, then reclaimed the fortress, can be loaded to observe the aftermath of the described problem. Note the snake man fort citizen which is the adventurer I created and retired.

Please also note the second save also takes place during a siege, and can be used to demonstrate that invaders ignore the scattered caravan peoples on the map.

The second save can also be used to consider the possibility that invader caps in the .ini file are not being observed, but I will make a separate bug report for that possible issue.