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Heyo, I wanted to basically start a fort that was just "You are the only dwarven fort left in the world, good luck"

How could I create a scenario like this?

From our end I mean. Not going to lie, the thought of Goblins undoing hours and hours of work by digging tunnels through my fort seems intimidating. However I am extremely curious as to what would be ideal ways to deal with the scenarios presented in the development goals.

Aside from having a lot of Marksdwarves, I keep thinking of surrounding the entirety of my forts with magma pumping through huge canyons outside the Fort's walls

DFHack has really spoiled me, and the entire reason why is because of the Aforementioned plugin. It gets rid of so much micromanagement that it makes the vanilla game feel somewhat like a chore.

The ability to tell dwarves "Hey! I want you to keep making barrels until we have 500 of them" makes things a hell of a lot easier

RAM Hun? I kinda thought so. I was thinking of getting 64 gigs of DDR4 RAM to see how that would work

Right now the sword sucks. It's nowhere near as useful as the other weapons and it fails at being a jack of all trades weapon. I think the way to fix this is to simply make the sword faster to swing (ie give the sword user more attacks for their turn in combat.)

This makes sense as in real life this was the reason swords where widely used and weight after; they were lightier than axes and maces , easier to use, and you could react faster with it because they required less force to be effective.

Don't know if anyone has thought of this yet, just wanted to make a suggestion

I realized this when I played Adventure mode for the first time and spawned in a dwarven fort. I couldn't see more than 4 or 5 tiles ahead of me (which became extremely annoying when I was trying to get out of it, especially since the mapped area kept disappearing) and it got to me thinking, "Is this because there's practically no light in here?"

Then I got to thinking "What if you could place torches on the walls in fort mode? How would it affect the dwarves in the fort?"

Then again, knowing how Toady is with his baby, he probably wants light to behave in the most physically accurate way possible as to add to the simulation, so that might be way off in the future.

Still, it does kinda make me wonder how it would affect gameplay or what bugs could come from its inclusion (Like if a Dwarf walks in front of a mirror outside in the sunlight, would the Urist be reduced o ashes because the mirror created a laser?)

after playing 0.44.02 I've realized just how important the item limits function from DFHack is for getting rid of so much micromanaging