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According to the description of my corpse "She is not tall but incredibly muscled. Her upper body is missing"

Well, if her upper body is missing, I can understand why "She is not tall".

It would be difficult to make siegers substantially more capable without changing the nature of the game.  After all, right now even the most capable goblin swordmaster who manages to tumble past row after row of enormous iron corkscrews can be frustrated by the simple expedient of a locked door.

In my experience, the biggest threat posed by siegers isn't what they can do to your fortress, it's what they can do to disrupt the portions of your fortress that operate on the surface.  Which isn't necessarily all that unreasonable, since IMO the fortress should be fairly impregnable from conventional assault.

As near as I can tell, killing the goblin king has no meaningful impact.  The king (an axe lord, in my case) led the third siege against my fortress and was killed in the fray; he's still listed as their ruler, and his death has by no means stopped the goblin sieges (if anything, they've intensified, and I kill about five dozen goblins a year... three times that number get away.)

They don't, actually.  My last fortress had the goblin king turn up in the third siege and die on my traps; they kept sieging, very nearly every season, for years.

I did some fairly effective things with floodgates and piping magma into a room with caged goblins, but you lose the cages.  (Also, it was incredibly elaborate and took *forever*.)  Unfortunately, IIRC water alone doesn't work -- you have to actually release them.  So chasming cages is probably the most expedient way to get rid of caged goblins.

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Originally posted by qwip:
<STRONG>I don't understand the purpose of magma "rush". If you're going to use the magma for powering smelters and forges, you need some steel bars first.
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As darknight says, there are benefits to setting up the bulk of your fortress between the chasm and the magma.  In my experience, it's far more efficient to set up deeper than to try to build a surface-side fortress and then move everything below.  Further, getting the two steel bars you need to make a magma forge and a magma furnace isn't very hard.  All you need is one tower-cap log from your starting wagons, a coal seam, and a vein of hematite.  You can just build a wood furnace and a smelter and then knock them down as soon as you've got your two steel bars.

Do you have space left in your stockpile?  Even if you have spare bins, I don't think the dwarves will use them unless there's room to place them in the stockpile and then fill them.

Fey mood dwarves have their highest skill bumped to legendary, not their most logical one.  I had a couple miners make legendary miner by making stone floodgates and the like.

I don't think it's that simple... I've seen elite goblins walk right through my layers of enormous iron corkscrews only to take a spiked iron ball to the side of the head.  That said, certain creatures definitely have the ability to ignore traps entirely (the aforementioned kobold thieves, bronze colossuses (colossi?), etc.)  And, of course, if a trap is resetting, it won't go off no matter who steps on it.