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True, though since it's an over production, and only going to be used once, the distance doesn't really matter.

Only if you burrow the crafting dwarves in an area containing only the work space and the materials.

Sounds like an awesome embark, even if it's not going to be useable. Though if you wait, eventually the Caverns will fill and you'll get FPS again. Just don't breach the caverns!

1)Favorite part? Building stuff. Whether the dwarfs like it or not. Walls, Aqueducts. Helical gryoscopic thingamabobs. (Windmills)

All good stuff.

2)Don't use mods like genesis. I have trouble enough surviving the default world.

3) Precision. All bedrooms much be equal, all workshops must be built in the proscribed dimensions. (3x4 with a stair case leading up and down to storage.)

4) Never, I know what I like and how I like it. Usually I'll bring three copper Picks, one copper axe. Three miners, and one military dwarf. The other three do whatever I demand of them. though one is usually a good broker.

6) I'm not a very good player, so the worst I've done is actually a real unfortunate accident. I built an aqueduct. This rose three z-levels from the sea to one z above the surface of my world, and culminated in a reservoir.

Then I decided to wash away the blood from the Rhesus Macaque's we'd spent the first three years fighting off. Ordered the construction of a second aqueduct, one z-higher than the first, off the reservoir. Pumped water down it, through a grate.

Instant boom in the coffin industry, though no one could do anything about it because the workshops were underwater.

Of course, now I'm busily reworking it so I can pump water around the map to drown those damn goblin bowmen.

Probably should have put that lever IN the burrow. You can temporarily allow access to it to let a dwarf pull the lever.

I don't know. I ended up using DF Liquids to hold them behind obsidian walls. Eventually I shall send brave dorfs to smooth the stones and engrave great warnings that the horrid monsters within should never be freed to roam the earth again.

Punch through the Cotton Candy, but not through here.`

I use water pumped up from an aquifer, and since I wasn't getting enough fill, also several repeater pumps connected to windmills. BIG Moat. Of course, if you were really insane, you could dig two moats, one dry and one wet and line the strip of land between them with traps. All the way around.

Dorf boxes make even human sieges pieces of cake. 3x3 box, hollow in the middle, with a roof and raising bridge as a door. Your military can pop out of them into the middle of the human siege, and wipe them out without them being able to see you coming.