Buildings, like items, must be reclaimed before they can be used. Constructed buildings will have remained standing, including small buildings like cages and beds.Be prepared to deal with whatever destroyed your fortress before. If your fortress fell to a tantrum spiral, there may be berserk dwarves lurking in ambush for your embark party.
Warning: if another siege of the same race turns up, then those already present may revert to enemy again! Enemy invasion forces like goblin ambush parties may have changed to be peaceful, for some reason.Forgotten beasts that existed when your fortress fell will change their status from "Uninvited Guest" to "Current Resident.".Enemies that existed during abandonment will still be there if you reclaim the fortress immediately afterwards and may be lurking in ambush.Food ingredients in barrels rot away, and all alcohol barrels will be empty, however, any prepared meals are still dwarf-edible and will be scattered everywhere (and initially forbidden as above).These tortured souls will have no corresponding bodies - these poor spirits of repeated failed attempts must be memorialised If you have reclaimed the same fortress more than once, there may also be ghosts of citizens from attempts prior to the most recently lost fortress.Dwarves that were present during the fall of the lost fortress will be scattered across the map, along with the rotten carcasses of whatever livestock was left behind.All items that existed at the lost fortress will be forbidden and randomly strewn across the map and all accessible levels.On arrival at your old ruined fortress location, the player's initial impression will be one of untidiness: This section was migrated from v0.34:Reclaim fortress mode and may be inaccurate for the current version of DF (v0.47.05). Unretiring a fortress has no prepare-for-journey screen and immediately brings you to the fortress. The prepare-for-journey screen is identical to a normal embark, with the same number of points for item selection. Reclaiming a fortress is little different than a normal embark. If you previously retired or abandoned a fortress, those will also be available to unretire or reclaim respectively. Pressing tab will select a site and give you a history of when the site was created, and how the fortress fell. There will be a list of locations you are able to scroll through. At the embark screen, press R in order to bring up a list of potential reclaim locations.
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How to reclaim or unretire a fortress ĭuring world generation, sites can become ruins which you are able to reclaim in Fortress Mode.