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Well I managed to figure it out but the 'floor on top of the wall' was on the z level below the floating strip. Also, I had build stairs adjacent to the support to build the strip which I later removed, including the up stair. The up/down stair was on the same level as the 'floor on top of the wall' (one level above the wall itself) but neither it nor the wall was directly underneath the floating strip. It's a moot point at the moment since I removed my scaffolding the usual way but if anyone's still interested I've probably got a seasonal save I could fire up to take a screenshot.

So you can support N, S, W, E, U, NU, SU, WU, EU? I see

I may be a strange one but I never have trouble finding work for immigrants. I limit my cap to 100 and of those

3 work in the kitchen, with maybe 2-3 apprentices training up when stocks are high
2 work on crafting, including bone, rock, leather, cloth and wood - they produce trade goods from day one until I need bolts
2 are skilled masons for building nice quality tables/chairs/doors for my dwarves to enjoy
2 are miners - it starts out slow but 2 legendary miners are fine for me
1 mechanic - after the first immigrant wave or so I deliberately get someone to start churning out mechanisms for bridges/traps/other
1 quartermaster
assorted nobles
1 carpenter - he makes bins and beds etc
1 smith - I embark with a weapon/armor smith and keep him nice and safe tidying up the fort until later
1 woodcutter with 1 apprentice, sometimes, depending on how dangerous a life he has
1 doctor to look after all my injured dwarves

The other many dwarves are either military, hauler or jacks. My military can consist of up to around 20 dwarves depending on the danger I'm in. Jacks are a team of dwarves I use for anything and everything I need that isn't hauling. Helping mechanics rig up bridges, helping build walls/floors, assisting the hauling, processing things for moods, etc. Haulers are just that - haulers. I recently made a point of giving all of my haulers a little skill in weapon or armor smithing and as a result I now have a legendary weapon smith and armor smith from their ranks.

As a guide, with 115 dwarves I have 20 children, 30 haulers, 10 jacks and 16 dwarves in the military. If a dwarf goes moody and becomes legendary, I keep him nice and safe as needed (current fort has two legendary gem setters )

Also, incase anyone things I have an inefficient fort, I don't. I keep my haulers busy in pump gyms, large scale masonry or specialised hauling (such as gathering a stream ores for the smithy or moving all the blue rocks near my next construction).

My third member of the hammerforce141 squad of dwarves has finally decided his slightly injured arm is fit for use again. He spent years in bed while his two friends ran around smooshing elves and treants and has finally jumped up again. NEVER MIND THE MANGLED LUNG! I seriously thought he was in bed for the horrible red mangled lung but no, it's the yellow arm that had him moaning. Now he sprints everywhere fit as a fiddle despite constantly complaining of being winded. At least I know that dwarves care more for dexterity than they do for respiration.

I'm not convinced that it's totally out of proportion. It doesn't happen every day but it's to be expected that the exceptional stories are the ones most recounted. My first ever tantrum spiral saw a legendary hammer dwarf knock kids up and down my hallways and my first ever encounter with fire imps led to a pig tail sock rush that killed more than half of my haulers.

I find there to be two very satisfying elements to the game. The first is the flexibility within the game for megaprojects. The second is the way in which things can all go terribly, horribly and spectacularly wrong. I like watching my dwarves slowly construct a giant pyramid and I like watching my marksdwarf dodge a team of crossbow wielding goblins just to smack them to death with a dwarf bone crossbow. The game is just nice

Well it'll have to be on hold for a while anyway since I just lost every dwarf to a nasty siege. Teach me to give traders huge profits. I'll keep my fort shallow and simply wall off the mountain bits. As long as I put walls on every z level of the mountain that faces my fort within a reasonable distance, they won't be able to shoot into my fort. Plus it could be a long term mega construction idea, settling my fort within the walls on the mountain in layers, like minas tirith from lotr.

Hmm, well, if you put it that way... How can I stop the magma from spilling around the edge though? I can't build a wall there to stop it.

I've been led to believe that migrants, invaders, etc. all spawn at the edge of the map. I've heard of people controlling where they spawn by preventing access to the edge of the map in certain places. My fort consists of flat land with a mountain in a corner. If I remove all ground level slopes up the mountain (thus making it inaccessible) will invaders/caravans/migrants cease to spawn on the mountain itself?