pop-control

This tool dynamically adjusts the game population caps to limit the number of migrants that can arrive in a single wave. This prevents migration waves from getting too large and overwhelming a fort’s infrastructure.

Warning

This tool will change the population cap in the game settings. If you exit out of a fort that has this tool enabled and then load a fort that doesn’t have this tool enabled, or if you start a new fort and pop-control is not set for autostart, your population cap will be set to whatever value was currently used for the previously loaded fort.

If you want to more severely limit immigration and other “people” events, see hermit.

Usage

enable pop-control
pop-control [status]
pop-control set wave-size <wave_size>
pop-control set max-pop <max_pop>
pop-control reset

By default, migration waves are capped at 10 migrants and the fort max population is set at 200.

When pop-control is disabled, the game population cap is set to the value configured for max-pop. If you have manually adjusted the population caps outside of this tool, the value that is restored may differ from what you had originally set.

Likewise, if you manually adjust the population caps while this tool is enabled, your manual settings will be overwritten when pop-control next compares your fort population to the settings configured for pop-control.

Examples

enable pop-control

Dynamically adjust the population cap for this fort so all future migrant waves are no larger than the configured wave-size.

pop-control

Show currently configured settings.

pop-control set wave-size 5

Ensure future migration waves have 5 or fewer members.

pop-control reset

Reset the wave size and max population to defaults.