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Don't remember what it was called. I do remember that I didn't understand that creatures can travel diagonally. The goblins had no trouble getting in.

Imagine a world without dwarves...or humans...or elves. This describes the pocket world i recently generated. I set the parameters to have the maximum number of evil squares, and turned off the requirement for playable civs. I ended up with a world in which the only civ is goblins, led by the demon Uslot. Also populating the world are a significant number of giants and cyclopses, as well as a hydra. I can't play fortress mode (as there were never any dwarves to begin with!) on this world, but I can play adventure, as either a human play now or a goblin. I picked a goblin, Usbu Devildanced, and made him a knife user. The game didn't start me with a knife, so i was ripped apart by harpies. Now I'm playing as Strodno Sinprison, Axeman. I've been looking for Uslot in the goblin capital of Lullspider, i will post again if I ever do.

Sometimes the end of your adventure is the most memorable part of all. My Human, whose name i forget, killed 180 people, mostly by sneaking into their houses at night and choking or chopping them to death. His last kill, a high priest, mortally wounded him before being killed. Looking at the priest in legends, he was nothing special: former farmer and ranger with no notable kills besides me. But then I looked at his wife: turns out, I had killed her a year earlier! So it's a sort of double revenge: he kills me for killing his wife, I kill him for mortally wounding me. Post your own epic deaths!

I've never set up a good metalcrafting industry. therefore, my military is always full of unarmored wrestlers. They're actually quite dangerous if all of them are champions.

In one of my earliest forts, I dug into a small dirt hill. A stockpile in the back was dug in such a way that it left a diagonal opening. I ignored it, and my dwarves paid dearly. The goblins made it inside before I even knew there was an ambush! Plus, I had no army.

I also have trouble with design. My fortresses are always quite small, and I never have to expand them to the size most people do. I've never even earned the economy! One thing I like to do is to build finished goods stockpiles directly under the trade depot, to minimize travel for haulers. Is this a good or bad idea?

I'm sure this is common knowledge, but I didn't see it in the wiki, so I'll post it here. There are a few different ways to create muddy tiles in an icy area, but the easiest one i know of is to build constructions (stair, floor ect.) made of ice all over the area you plan to farm, and then deconstruct them. they will melt, creating muddy tiles. I can't guarantee this will work in every fortress, but it worked for the two I built in glaciers.