Disable Cavern Dwellers?

[Honeybadger]

Hey folks, ran into a unique problem recently.

I ran a fort in a young world and discovered my caverns were absolutely infested with batmen and women. DF Hack said there were 900+, so I exterminated them just for 100's more to show up in a matter of days. Is there a way to disable dwellers for future world generations? They really killed my FPS :/

[Majer3RD°]

Yes, go into your settings under difficulty and turn their setting down to 0. Unfortunately they are bugged and just spawn endlessly unless your dwarves are just constantly watching the various entrances the Batman spawn along the cavern edges.

I like to wall off most of the cavern, then leave a hallway/passageway still connected to the edge of the cavern and let my patrols battle the occasional spawned units. Only way to keep them in game but also manageable.

[Bimmelkaes]

i wonder if its so hard to fix.

[Majer3RD°]

Originally posted by Bimmelkaes:

i wonder if its so hard to fix.

If there is a fix, please let us know as I’d much rather fight the ant men below and the gobbos above, a war on two fronts! What more coulda dorf ask for?!

[Honeybadger]

Originally posted by Maj3RDdegree:

Yes, go into your settings under difficulty and turn their setting down to 0. Unfortunately they are bugged and just spawn endlessly unless your dwarves are just constantly watching the various entrances the Batman spawn along the cavern edges.

I like to wall off most of the cavern, then leave a hallway/passageway still connected to the edge of the cavern and let my patrols battle the occasional spawned units. Only way to keep them in game but also manageable.

I did exactly this, I also turned their invasions off in the custom difficulty. I used DF Hack to wall in their spawns and that seemed to do the trick.

Originally posted by Maj3RDdegree:

Originally posted by Bimmelkaes:

i wonder if its so hard to fix.

If there is a fix, please let us know as I’d much rather fight the ant men below and the gobbos above, a war on two fronts! What more coulda dorf ask for?!

I read on the Bay12 fourms someone recommended connecting the caverns so the Forgotten Beasts can all cull the wildlife and invasions. Maybe this and a lowering of their invasions in custom difficulty can at least make the game playable. Because as stated above their spawns are currently bugged.

I'd like to thank everyone for the help, this help saved a 15 year fort and my sanity.

[ALcovEX]

Can't you just wall the edges off? or do they spawn within the cavern regardless? as opposed to walking from outside the map?

[Fantastic Fwoosh]

Editing them off the RAWs is probably the most decisive way of removing them.