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An 18-storey Rubik's cube, not completed. Each 'square' on the outside surface is 6x6. This should require a truly brain-breaking number of blocks. Of six different colours. For a bonus, mount it on a single rim of walls, and make the bottom floor coloured too, permitting dwarves to walk throughout the Great Cube of Urist Rubikendol.

An enormous sculpture of a carp. The mouth is a ballista emplacement.

If they are stealthy its an ambush, so thats probably your case. But sometimes siegers spawn inside fortress. There was a place inside on of my fortresses that had to be walled, because orc and goblins siege squads spawned in there with every siege.

Sometimes there's a glitch that treats a given region of the space inside your fortress as the edge of the map, so things spawn there even though they're not supposed to. (The Hitch Hiker's Guide joke that is my sig at time of posting came from the thread in question; in case of future changes to said sig, here's the original quote)

I had a fort that suffered from a bug where a certain line across the middle of the map seemed to be treated like a map edge, inasmuch as animals, merchants, and invaders would sometimes spawn on it. Naturally, the line bisected my fort. Every few months there would be a sudden plague of "dwarf cancels everything and freaks out: interrupted by entire herd of wild camels magically appearing in the middle of the fort."

I think my legendary engraver is getting fed up with his job.

Arcethkenmugshith, “The Strategic Whimsical Tortures”
Engraved on the floor is an exceptionally designed image of a dwarf by Cerol Odshithendok. The dwarf is engraving.

(Made with Dig Deeper engraving enhancement)

Uker Vuknud, "The Waves of Strangling"

Engraved on the wall is an exceptionally designed image of demanding elf nobles by Cerol Odshithendok.


It's like he engraved a Dwarf Fortress Scrappy-Doo.

Anything involving magma.

Yeah, you get some really weird stuff with mods. I managed to create a world where typeless, zero-cost meat would spontaneously come into existence, and turtles were apparently extinct by combining Prehistoria, Dig Deeper, and Zoo Mod 3.5 (which meant I had a ton of redundant critters). After wiping the raws and data and re-extracting the precious strands of programming adamantine, I tried simply combining Prehistoria and Dig Deeper...
...and dwarves went extinct. I found myself embarking with a solid crew of very dwarfy Elves. Don't get me wrong, having an entire fortress of Cacame wannabes was interesting, but I play DF for the manic-depressive alcoholic midgets rather than the manic-depressive alcoholic beanpoles.

Yeah, you have to be careful with your food supplies. I once nearly had a heart attack when I checked the supplies of my 150+ Dwarf fort and realised that I hadn't brewed a drink in so long I now only had 5 units of booze left. I'm just glad I had several stills and had been mass-producing barrels for about three years.