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So a couple forts ago I set up a pretty nice magma incinerator for goblinite and general waste. Thought I was being clever, yeah? A ~100z shaft, ending in a little magma pump cycle that incinerates non-iron things. It intersects most of my workshop levels for industrial waste, and my farms as well, for farm waste. Starts at my butcher shop, natch.

Set up little watchtowers all over the map so that I can rain pointy death on anything I dislike. Figured I'd set up some moats fed from the local river to make anything narsty path past my pointy-death dispensers.

You can see where this is going. Channeled the river just wrong, it flooded into every level of my fort simultaneously. Piles of steam at the workshop level, huge rivers of water flooded through the dining room, the farms were just a lake. The army is cut off from everyone else and all food, my masons are trapped inside my dining room, my miners are trapped on the workshop level. Gross.

I eventually saved the fort. But dang, that was work.

Oh man. Delicious! My marksdwarves train mostly on flying things near my fortress.

You could try giving a few unpleasant but ultimately harmless syndromes to the ogres that do the reactions. Nausea, dizziness, that kind of thing.

Can you hand out pain through syndromes? That seems pretty direct.

I don't know, some forgotten beast poisons can help you. About half my dwarves are missing their kidneys, but they seem to be fine. *shrug*.

I had one that caused necrosis of all sensory nerves once. I built a barracks over his dead body. Pain-proof dwarves!

This is my proudest achievement. LFR + FD challenge+ FD bonus + FD vanilla. I have made it 4 years! I have survived goblins, nightwings, white tigermen, ferric elves, maybe six forgotten beasts, and of course the usual deep wolf gangs.

I set the outside world on fire twice, and built a magma-powered incinerator. Awesome. Sadly, I accidentally flooded it while trying to dig a moat. And failing, obviously. BUT THEN: I drained it and fixed it! I have a tree farm now.

Farming is working, I have a nice big population of sabre-toothed tigers and dogs, and I'm working on speckling the map with fortified pillboxes. Noice.

Good luck, set up a place to watch the world burn, and shoot at all of it with bolts.

Definitely more dangerous sieges where they bring ladders and grappling hooks and picks and battering rams.

Tactical placing of the fort would matter a lot more than it does now. High walls built of smooth blocks. If you were really hardcore you could make walls out of glass, making them unclimbable. That would be neat.