Hi. After patching up the game I don't get any crashes. I've succesfully beaten the first four levels. However in Elmshadow I capture the portal. But I don't get any monsters from it no matter what rooms i build. Anybody who has any suggestions?

I just played it a little more. It turns out I do get the monsters associated with specific rooms. So if I build a workshop I get trolls and for a library I get wizards and for a guard room I get dark elfs. However I don't get any goblins or fireflies... I might be wrong. But I seem to remember getting these creatures before the patch.

I have the very same problem and I came here looking for a solution. Thankfully, I got the level going from your tip by building a workshop and a library. I can't recall if this happened in the unpatched version, but I can confirm it surely happens now.

I just did Elmshadow and noticed the same thing. Goblins and Fireflies never show up regardless of what you do, but I think it has always been that way. It doesn't really affect the level too much. Just build small versions of the other rooms before you break out into the water and you'll get a few trolls, warlocks and dark elves to defend you until you can scrounge up more gold.

I hope there's a solution to issues like this soon. Between that and the 1.7 patch bugs, I feel like I'm missing out on something. I tried doing the 1.73-patch fix (for the "can't recruit X in last few missions" bug) detailed in some topics here, but when I copied the data over and restarted the first map, the ending trigger didn't work and I couldn't finish the first map.

I'm also having this problem. Does it fix after you beat the level? One time wouldn't be a big deal, but I just want the game to work correctly! It took me hours just to get it working in the first place. I've replaced the map variables as well, still can't get any goblins in there :/

I have the same problem with Elmshadow. Do the Goblins and Fireflies show up again in the later level or is the whole campaign bugged like this? I'd rather not spend hours trying to get past Elmshadow without Goblins and Fireflies just to find out that later level have the same problem...

edit: I've just watched two different "let's play" of DK2 on youtube for the Elmshadow level and both didn't have Goblins and Fireflies in them. Since both videos have been posted before the GOG update was release it's probably a problem with the original version of DK2 and not with the GOG patch.

Same problem here.
I did get one goblin as a first creature entering my dungeon. But as it was early game I hadn't built sleeping quarters and chicken farm yet and he left. After building those I built workshop and library and I get heaps of wizards, trolls and elves but no goblins anymore.