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When I started playing DF I played only with graphics packs. Now that I'm a somewhat experienced player, I play only with graphics packs.

The way the game is meant to be played is decided by whoever plays it. The ability to change and add to games to make it suit your own preferences is the main reason I prefer PC gaming over console gaming (though I do both).

Whatever base shape is used, it needs to menace with spikes in some way.

A puggle sounds like something that would be closely related to a fluffy wambler. Reminds me of the first time I saw a caged Drake in a merchant caravan and thought I'd be able to buy a small dragon-ish creature. Nope. Turns out drake is the term for male ducks.

Then I installed Masterwork, and figured the flock of drakes that wandered onto the map would be easy practice for my fledgling militia...
"Wait, that duck's image looks more like a small dragon..."

I demand masterwork weapons and armor made from steel and adamantine, all the while nervously eyeing the floodgate that's for some reason installed in the ceiling over my bed.

I usually have a main entrance with a drawbridge and a narrow back entrance full of traps. I like putting the trap corridor on the side of a cliff, so invaders dodging the traps take a dive, preferably into lava. As I become more confident in my small militia I'll slowly start sending them out earlier rather than just use them to mop up the few enemies that make it through the traps.

I tend to get dwarves with preexisting conditions (insanity, missing limbs, etc) when they're coming from a fort I recently abandoned. One military dwarf went berserk as soon as he entered the map, and slaughtered all the other immigrants as well as a good chunk of my military.

I tend to just assume every caravan visit also brings an ambush

Though if I manage to get a surplus of animals I set up scattered pastured around the map to increase the odds of early detection.

I also tend to play defensively; I usually dig a moat around the entrace with a drawbridge for the caravans, and a heavily trapped back entrance for anyone who gets caught outside.

I was literally JUST about to make a thread like this. He is doing great, with this pace, the new version should be done in a maximum of two months.

Famous last words
But I agree that the bugfixing posts are great; not just because each brings us a bit closer to release, but because they tend to be really funny.