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*lol* Well, I call it a "bunch" when it's like a handful of rocks. (Yes, I realize these stones are half the size of my dwarves, but still, 20~30 is not much.)

When you start making above ground buildings I call it "alot", or in extreme circumstances "a whole lot". ^_^

Furthermore, hoarding valuable items is just the dwarfy thing to do!

have you tried that trap on a invader? because invaders claim doors that they go though  making them not possible to lock. it will still work if you have no other way in to your fort because they will be to stupid to leave but.

Oh, huh. That's annoying.. I guess I'll use hatches instead.
But yeah, it'll work because it's the only way into my fortress.

Interestingly this design could be adapted too make it immune to building destroyers entirely and not exploit AI's door problems

Ooh, I like the sound of that. Any suggestions?

Flooding the surrounding countryside with lava bi-anually

Haha, yes. I read Boatmurdered. It was awesome.

To be clear guys, I'm not that sad about the dwarf. I'm mostly unhappy that I squished somebody's kitty... *lol*

Cool idea, that's pretty amusing actually.

Here's my entryway:

So, I had some peasant claim my masonry workshop in a fey mood go insane because I don't have any cut gems. She ran around throwing clothes everywhere until I caught her in my huge Dwarven Atom Smasher that guards the front gate and crushed her out of existence.

Reading through my other dwarves' statuses, it turns out she left behind a husband, two kids, and three close friends, who all had to put up with her being lost to an accident, dying, and decaying. (Apparently being smashed out of existence does all of these things. Everybody who knew her gets three bad thoughts! Ouch!)

All that and I was still more sad about the cat that got caught in the DAS with her. That was somebody's pet! T_T

If there is a way to delete posts somebody tell me and I will get rid of these. :-/

Design habit....  I'm used to making every access path three-wide for pathing and FPS reasons; making it three-wide means we need floodgates and levers to manually operate them, not doors.  Wouldn't be hard for the next ruler to do; there's a surplus of mechanisms already.

Oh, well you can still use doors easily enough. First you build a door normally against each wall, and then next to where the center door goes, construct a wall. Then you can put the middle door in. You can remove the constructed wall and the door will remain standing. This would be great, because then we don't have to be afraid of anything-that-can-run-through-stone-traps. We only have to worry about anything-that-can-run-through-stone-traps-and-also-break-doors.

I usually use raising bridges.  If I absolutely need the space and/or resource conservation, I just set it as one tile wide and however tall.  Instant door, with the added benefit of potentially being useful for crushing stuff.

I love those, my latest fortress has a big entrance hallway with a drawbridge in it that I can use to smash stuff.
Sadly I've yet to have any sieges, so I've only smashed a rock once to make sure it works. The doors airlocking the whole trap are super convenient for keeping my dwarves out of the way, though.