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I still plan on digging out a geode city at some point.

Quote from: Areyar on June 13, 2011, 09:27:43 am

Following the cowardly elvish assault on our undefended mine, in which Kagosh was thrown down the main air shaft. Kagosh the blacksmith was tumescent in the hospital with two doubly broken legs when she got a genious idea.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

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Tumescence is the quality or state of being tumescent or swollen. This swelling includes expanding foam and expanding caulk. [1] Tumescence usually refers to the normal engorgement with blood (vascular congestion) of the erectile tissues, marking sexual excitation and possible readiness for sexual activity. The tumescent sexual organ in men is the penis and in women is the clitoris.

LOL !!
(and !!blush!! )
incumbent? supine? prostate?
What I meant to say was being back-broken and lying down...using a latin word. :p

Then your next learning curve has appeared beyond the one of building a fort:
managing a working military, while maintaining a working fort.

Following the cowardly elvish assault on our undefended mine, in which Kagosh was thrown down the main air shaft. Kagosh the blacksmith was tumescent in the hospital with two doubly broken legs when she got a genious idea.

She hauled her bleeding body down the industrial shaft and claimed a smithy and refused to talk to anyone while she laboured brokenly lying in front of the fiery furnace.

Finally she decided her masterwork was complete: Ósshigós, Certainpack, a pigiron sarcofagus lined with copper spikes.
Several days she slept after she was hauled back to the hospital, her last words before she succumbed to the untreated infection raging in her maltreated limbs were "My life's work ...also my last... certain... urk"

She will be remembered as a legend and as a moral tale for young dwarves; not to refuse treatment.
As befits a legendary miner and blacksmith she lies in her own artifact coffin.

there is a designate method to unforbid/forbid/dump etc all items within a selected area, that should reduce the time needed. still there is a maximum size to the area and it only works on one level obviously.

you used to get a bunch of warriors to reclaim in olden times, nowadays it is the usual embark options. Can still train/equip your dwarves as a fightingsquad, but no longer are you restricted to only warriors.

i recommend taking agood mason at least.

oh, and if you abandon a fortress voluntarilly, items held by living dwarves are gone, as well as the dwarves themselves.

Quote from: Areyar on June 09, 2011, 04:31:14 pm

Place ammostocks, sleeping barracks, training targets, foodstocks and dininghall in decreasing order of importance on lower levels or in inner rooms if larger tower.

Better yet make a great wall around your fort and place an entire self-sustaining complex inside.

The great wall of Goblinbane, where the stalwart defenders of the fort live and die. Once a child goes in he is never seen again as he spends the rest of his life training to be one of the elite marksdwarfs that patrol the wall.
The unseen protectors of the fortress inhabitants, their remains to be placed on the catacombs that line the founfations of the wall. So that their spirits are eternally bound to the defense of the fort.

Yeah, this is the plan.
Not many of my fortresses survive past the stage of a small walled outpost though. ><

WW I fortifications are inspiring for DF too.

oh heh, hatchcover. Not when locked. )flyers are rarely building destroyers.
If you did not close off the roof access, then they can get in through there.

Diagonal movement: yeah, I know, it is only a thought to solve a riddle.
Thrown/falling/born creatures or those pushed by a current can pass through fortifications, so maybe they are pasable to all flying creatures. . .


Note that above sideview is only a most basic tower, you get bonuspoints for overlapping fireangles.

Place ammostocks, sleeping barracks, training targets, foodstocks and dininghall in decreasing order of importance on lower levels or in inner rooms if larger tower.

Started a new fort recently.
temperate saltwater swamp. Dorfs are at war with everyone, didnt realise this till later though.

We intended to dig a big hole in the ground and live off trading the products of our minecraft, hence we took six picka an axe and our awesome leader can trade like a ... a ... er... hum whatever.
all was well untill the traders areived from home, THEY DID NOT BRING ANY BOOZE! and we were about at the stage of drinking blood. 
Some high priority building and learning created some much needed liquor just in time to prevent extinction.
Word must have reached the mountainhomes that we were making ale, because next spring our population tripled.
At this point we also finished our windmill waterpurifier- hopefully the reservoir will not freeze over in winter, our doctor claims he needs freshwater to clean wounds.
Then A massive ambush of elves reminded us we were at war. We had in total two macedwarves in the military.
Tactics were required. So everyone was drafted and told to guard the bottom of the pit. Some were unlucky to be jumped by the cowardly elves before they could reach the safety of the pit unfortunately. But the tactic proved successfull overall, losses were about equal and this  while only two mnaces one axe and six picks were available to all the dwarves. We were reduced to using the wooden implements of our foes. Something that will never happen again! I've ordered weapons of steel to be forged in large quantities. The inferior quality stuff we will sell off. Hopefully for booze.
Also we dug some shallow cellars for farms. neccessity.
I must see about creating a guard force, we had some tantrumming. Some silly creature had lost her mate and decided it was needed to kill a mule.
I think we will cancel the hammers and change that for picks. We are a still mining outpost. Everyone, save the woodcutters and marksdwarves will be required to carry a pick and train with it once every week in the barracks. We will see about smithing some helmets and chainmail. Any armour taken will be mandatory to be worn at all times.

That is all.
Praise the miners.