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Water wheels and bridges, and pumps and hatches and doors and magma. Very soon.

I left us in a pretty good place militarily. At least as far as ambushes are concerned. With a little micro managing of the equipment, you could probably take any two ambushes at once with only two of the military dwarves. Send three if you want to make sure you don't lose any dwarves.

Also, I designated and started stocking a hospital; which is also noted in the update mentioned in my previous post. Once the well is up and running, just add a couple of traction benches and you are good to go.

On effective use of the gate-o-doom. Leave it open at all times and migrants and traders will come safely through. Ambushers and siegers that aren't trap avoid should get to the line of weapon traps, dodge into the pit and die. In a medium or larger sized siege where the later attackers make it across by walking on the corpses of their fellow siegers, open the retracting bridge and then let down the draw bridge on the keep up top. The attackers' pathing will change and they will walk back across the line of traps, possibly dodging into the pit and if they make it back outside, close the raising drawbridge at the entrance to the gate-o-doom to let the dorfs clean the traps. If there are only a handful of attackers left, let them enter the keep and get caged. If their are still a bunch of them left close the keep gate and re-open the gate-o-doom bridges once the traps are clear.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Thanks for the tips on the textile industry. I think i will plan to start it up in my fort in about a year.

Can't you make raising bridge based dwarfapult?

However my daughter will find you to be pretty neat.

Not that she knows anything about the internet, or forums, or DF.

I will hate you all forever if you get me hooked on MLP.

At first they seem overwhelming, but over time you start to like them.

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