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Excellent!

Oh, since you have a crucible up, you may want to consider trading for Ilmenite from the homelands if you can get it. It's an ore of iron that has Vanadium in it, and will make a natural Steel Alloy when smelted in a crucible called Crucible Steel that's better than normal steel. (This is actually Wootz steel or Damascus Steel, historically)

Outer Trap Corridor (Unfinished)

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The trap corridor isn't finished yet. The plan of how it's going to work is that when the main entrance is closed (There is no lever to close it yet, so you should make one.)
On the end to our fortress there is a drawbridge connected to a pressure plate that will trigger on goblins and make the drawbridge close. I suggest leaving it open if the siege isn't too big so they can march in and get killed by the traps (the traps are still stone fall traps, replace them with weapon trap if you could), but the pressure plate will close if a goblin got through. A couple might still get through, though, so prepare the military.

Quote from: sudgy on October 22, 2012, 11:35:33 pm

If all the items you have all occupy the same space, they would either form a singularity and almost instantly disappear due to hawking radiation, or they would just start moving things toward it, while not making a singularity, but it would make it the center of the Earth or something similar...

- Well, in theory, if you put all the materials in an embark in the same spot, the resulting singularity would be massive enough (on par with a big mountain) to acrete mass faster than it'd loose it to Hawkings Radiation, which would result in a microscopic black hole bouncing around the planet's interior and causing Earthquakes all over the place before eventually swallowing up the entire planet.