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The first thing I did:

"Huh, I can make a moat around my fortress. I'll just dig a channel from my river... four tiles wide should be enough."
*5 minutes later*
"Why did both of my miners just die?"

Of course, that was after I learned how to MOVE.

...but he never woke up.

 

So now my eyebrows can fly off in a bloody arc? Awesome!

Hold on, are you suggesting that elves have a soul? They they actually have a consicence?
I find your theories hard to believe sir.


 

You can save embark profiles!

Cool!

For when you get tired of your fort and want to go out with a bang.

Personally this is my best, though it was semi-botched up by STUPID DWARVES.

Only 5 dwarves are left in my glacier fort. I settled on a huge 28-level-tall volcano, but there's no way to get more food. I'm hoping I can get this thing built before we all die of thirst.


Lever 'A' lowers the bridge (arrow). Note that bridges don't provide support.
Lever 'B' destroys the only thing holding up the whole platform, 3 supports underneath. Everything is made completely of ice and is dangling 16 stories above a pool of magma.


This is how it plays out:
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-907-elaborateglaciersuicide

Only 3 dwarves were actually on the platform, one was on the threshold and fell when the bridge was retracted, and a miner escaped the fate completely. No-one was where they should be, because apparently they refused to move to a new meeting area inside the square area. They just stood around the old meeting area, being stupid. Drafting them didn't work. I even put their beds on the platform, but when they woke up they went straight back to the old meeting area...

So they all hit the ground around the magma pool. Lame.

The Sea of Women.

Also, The Forest of Orders, on The Island of Execution.

After some tweaking, this is the best I can get.


It's got good islands, but it's not really a land 'of islands' yet. There's still a huge swath of land through the middle.