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Sounds really good

Thank you for the reply

Hmm something interesting happening in my fort today

I was so busy testing out some things I havent tried before I forgot to focus on defense 
Shortly after my best soldier (armed with the only steel weapon) Fell in the water doing training with a rookie and drowned....

There was a goblin ambush, they quickly killed my small militia force and turned on the civilians. I drafted a lot of civilians and turned them loose on the four goblins armed only with their teeth and ..... well nothing else. They starting biting and ripping limps of the goblins, one of the goblins jumped into the water and drowned.... pussy!

Now I am left with a lot of traumatised dwarfs, that are killing, fighting and destroying my fortress.

Cant wait to get home from work and see if I can turn it around

Gotta find an Arnold Schwarznegger dwarf and appoint him to sherif and deal out some justice

I had a lot of fun making a human fortress in 40d. Made a town with a wooden palisade surrounding it. I limited myself to only using wood for construction and building as realistically as possible. Each workshop was housed in a separate 'shop' building with a small cellar for storage an a living area upstairs. Everyone/family had a their own house. No apartments apart from a large barracks and communal room above the inn were allowed. I farmed aboveground crops only and bred cattle for meat. The only bit of underground construction I did apart from the cellars was a well so I had an unfrozen watersource in the winter. After a few years the pop had grown so large I had to make a second palisade to allow more housing. I also built a large stone castle as a megaproject by surface quarrying.

Im doing this right now, its great fun but building everything out of wood is very timeconsuming. Think next time its gonna be stone or perhaps channel the castle out.

Not sure how to do this but ive tried illustrate what ive been doing. Should I actually breach the aquifer?

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Got it!! gotta breach the aquifer, so that the stone falls down in the water.
One sidenote its better to drop the plug from the top instead of the bottom

I get all that but nothing happens when I drop the "plug"

How do I insert a picture of a quick illustration of what I do?

It's probably a multi-level aquifer. You'll need to set up a new breach point or use multiple levels of pumps.

My preferred breaching technique is to look for a stone inclusion of some sort that's not part of the aquifer.

Could you elaborate that? new breach point? Stone inclusion? You mean find a spot thats not aquifer? that could take a really long time

I like the ideas. Think im gonna try the human settlement way :-)

Ive been thinking about building an aboveground too, just not sure of which kinda design to choose...

I think im going to build one on the map im on now, nothing interesting going on here... Havent seen any goblins or kobolds.. There was some hippoes and tigerfish when I started but they are gone now. Some elephants passing through from time to time... got a little over 70 dwarfs. Nice place to try it off

Gonna make a lot of iron pickaxes and turn a lot of people into miners, and make an open mine, and take it from there