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The cute one is great haha.  And the slightly darker version you made has that right kind of foreboding feel. 

I have to say though that the darkerdark drawings are incredibly good... I would maybe do a small paypal commision for dwarf fortress art like that.  That kind of style (with color) could really help popularize the game itself, bringing the little sprites to life. 

So, my basic wish is I want to trigger sieges whenever I want for more fun.  My idea is to send either dwarves or messenger animals (birds, dogs, I dunno) to other civilizations.  You could give compliments or gifts to improve relations, or deliver horrible insults that trigger an automatic siege and the likely death of the sent dwarf/creature.  The effectiveness of the dwarf would be based on social skills, and sending dwarves would be better than a letter via animal. 

Not sure if other people have thought of this, but I think it would be a relatively simple feature.  It would add a layer of interactivity with the world around you, and would give an easy way for players to quickly piss off everybody around them for a good ol' time. 

So I captured a goblin thief, and was bored waiting for stuff to finish building.  Decided to move his cage to dining room, and stationed 15 dwarves by stockpile if/when he escapes.  They are all at least novice in important skills, with half much more.  Steel weapons and iron armor.  The thief sent 4 dwarves to the hospital with compound fractures.  2 of which happened AFTER GETTING ONE ARM AND BOTH LEGS CUT OFF.  What a little beast.  He only stopped after getting cut in half.

Im wondering if its possible to make either a water or magma piston.  Have a one-tile cavity stretching multiple z-levels, with water near the bottom at equilibrium.  Put something in there that is not attached to the walls but is impermeable to liquid.  Stand a dwarf on top of it.  Hook a bunch of pumps up to a repeater so that the water pressure fluctuates up and down.  Will the dwarf have a wild ride?  I could think of some more fun too...

Haters wanna hate, hunters wanna hunt...

So I started my first ever fort in the middle of a human town, for no good reason.  The human town consisted of 4 rectangular forts of a few z-levels each. One of these I took over for initial living space, and then dug down for everything else. 

For defense, I have a terribly long corridor of traps outside, with a drawbridge at the end in case things get hairy.  I built a big outer wall encircling a lot of the map, using the 3 other forts as part of it to cut down on what I needed to make.

But, there is alternative method to get inside.  I have connected the 3 other forts together (all of which are full of about 20-30 humans each), in such a way that if I raise the drawbridge, the only pathway invaders can use to get to my dwarves is to go through each z-level of each of the 3 other forts, in a maze-like path so that they have to walk past about 90% of the humans inside.  Then, they can proceed via a hole in a fort wall to get me, where I have another drawbridge in case an unkillable gets through. 

Unfortunately it has been 2-3 years waiting and no ambushes or sieges, so I haven't been able to test it out.  I'm really looking forward to seeing a war.

I think this would be more entertaining with an Elven town though... those hypocrite bastards. 

My first question is, does saltpeter in the game work the same way as real life?  My second question is, what is the most entertaining way of dealing with this menace?

Oh and his entire body is broken... it seems that in kicking some dogs I trapped underground his dust breath has destroyed himself.  But still he walks.