0013352: Visitors arrive as citizens - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0013352	Dwarf Fortress	Dwarf Mode -- Visitors	public	2025-11-20 12:32	2025-11-20 12:32

Reporter	dfcc	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	random
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	PC	OS	Linux	OS Version	Bodhi 7
Product Version	53.05

Summary	0013352: Visitors arrive as citizens
Description	Two occurrences so far: 1- A human hunter arrived. Which triggered announcements: 'has returned', 'has become a [hunter]', and 'shared a few rumours'. They show in the Citizen tab and can be assigned labours, but cannot assigned a noble position or a squad position. Relationship tab shows that they have never spoken with anyone in this fort. They are a member of a site belonging to my home civ, but not my site or my civ. They are a Legendary Treasure Hunter. 2-A monster hunter that I previous had join as a long-term resident then expelled triggered 'has returned', 'has become a [clothier]' announcements. Also on Citizen tab and can be assigned labours, but cannot assigned a noble position or a squad position. Has relationships from being here previously. They are a former member of a human site and civ, current member of a nomadic group. No connection with my civ or site. Also a Legendary Treasure Hunter. I have had normal visitors turn up; bards, scholars, prophets, performance troupes.
Steps To Reproduce	Depends on visitors arriving. I played on a bit to the get the 2nd visitor.
Additional Information	I thought it might be just be some world gen oddity so thought the first one may not actually be a bug, but having now just seen the previously expelled monster hunter return as a citizen feels like a bug. Apologies if I've duplicated this anywhere. I can't see anyone else talking about it on the Discord or other communities but would presume this is a fairly common bug to occur so trying to think what unusual things I may have done for it to occur: I used advanced world gen to create a 600 year old world so maybe I've got more historical figures around for it to occur? Did a few more niche things in world gen to make it more 'low fantasy' like get rid of necromancers and magic if that is related. I have those settings saved. Also kept manual saves for the two times these citizen-visitors arrived if they are needed.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2025-11-20 12:32	dfcc	New Issue