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Personally, I have those : a tower that blocks the one entrance to my valley. Walls or the 2 first level, then fortifications.

Down, a little moat filled with brook water, crossed by a bridge. The bridge allows the goblin to the bottom of the tower : the road is sided by fortifications, and there is a sort of stage that pass up the road so that my dwarves can fire from there. Before the exit of the tower, another bridge crossing a 5x5 hole.

Currently, I just make the goblins run away. Later on, I'll let them enter and trap them. And kill them.
And very later on I plan to set up something to flood the entire valley during a siege.
Not effective but pretty cool ^^

The brook froze this winter, and my brand new well was destructed.
The chain, the block, and the mechanism didn't disappear though. I didn't see them on the floor just after the well was destructed, anyway now they're in my stockpiles.
I don't know if they were dropped at the well or sort of teleported to my stockpiles.

Everything is in the title : I used back-ups several times and each time the game crashes, faster each time I retry.
On the first time, before any crash, I could play until mid winter. Now, the game crashes just after the dwarven caravan leaves, at mid autumn.
First I asked if it wasn't due to the caravan leaving the map, but now it hasn't the time to, and by the way my broker conducted the meeting but wouldn't trade at the depot.
So I was asking, since I hit Adamantine right before autumn, has anyone seen the end of the game yet?
Does the big upper demon make the game crash? I didn't dig a single level below the one where I found adamantine, and it's been only 3 months.

Also, you can't build walls diagonally BUT you can build floors this way.

In fact, on the log screen (Q), when you zoom you can see 9 "O". The entrance of the cave is somewhere inside those "O", and not only in the middle.

I don't think it's too hard to find a cave, but it would be nice to put a few indications. Like in Morrowind "go to the est since you see a river then follow it for about 2 hours, then go to the west. The entrance is under a cliff."

A fisherdwarf of mine entered a strange mood, picked up stone, claimed a mason's workshop, made a rock statue and then... became a legendary MINER.
He wasn't even dabbling miner before !

In fact it takes between 12 and 24 hours, if I remember well.

I already had this in the previous version : my trade minister was in his office and the human baronness in the dining room, the other side of the wall.