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No, no, no. All nobles should have rooms in the Goblin Defense Tower. Connected to the roof with a support, and a lever to detach it during an emergency. And potentially smash goblins.

Or in an apartment complex with no doors, to which they're restricted during sieges.

Or at least they should if it weren't for Derm's tendency to wander through sieges and smash them into nothing like he's not even trying. Hmm... perhaps a noble early warning system?

Edit: It's that pool just north of the cave entrance. But my tower starts one level higher. For two reasons. One, so I don't interfere with the defense of the entry, and two, to make it closer to the main fortress just that little bit. Plus I'm planning food stockpiles and a cistern so cave explorers can stop there instead of going all the way back up to the main fortress.

I'd advise building a cistern system. Six 5x5x3 tanks, connected with floodgates, and pressure plates will keep you wet even while the water is replenishing.

Connect Pressure plate in Cistern to floodgate entering. Build in a linear fashion. So that the last cistern, with no out is the one you're drawing water from. Then connect the pressure plate so it refills it when it hits 1 water, and closes the gate when it's at 7. Then the next one in line will open, and so on until the first cistern fills from your water source. This way if your source is self replenishing, you'll not drain it completely and be totally out of water.

Close, but not quite right. The best revenge is served cold, but first revenge must be cooked. Magma is the best way to cook it, and so it becomes !!REVENGE!!. Then it's allowed to cool, and becomes !!REVENGE!!

Try chopping down trees in your fortress.

Yeah, I like that. Let's hang it over the Magma Sea from 53 down through to 49, with shooting balconies on each side. And can I get a lever to lock the door behind me, that also opens the doors to the balconies.

Oooh. I'll have to have a look, at the map. Triaxx would be totally willing to help Derm punch through the wall in his way.

And you know? The game must be psychic. I look a little like that, save mustache and beard.

Well, you could increase the height of the stacks up to the highest necessary level, and then start them up. The water/magma will fall to the ground and become obsidian and don't have to be at the level necessary, so if you suddenly find that the top level is the wrong way, you can simply go up another level and have it going the right way.

I'd love to see work in progress screen though.