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how do you mod in a diplomat? i would like to see them try imposing their hard-ass wood limits on me as im pretty minimalist on wood anyway and dont use much (not that i have many trees to cut down to start with). I'll probly provoke them into war after i get some sunberries though, though it will be kinda pointless since they have no metal armor to melt down (but then again their caravan mostly sucks too).

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Or if they got dragged down under by a swimming mount or dodged a strike or a bolt that knocked them into the moat
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mounts wont path into the moat though, because there is only wall on the other side, which they cannot path through

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At its weakest you'll get 1zlvl above ground level, an extensional +1 wall layer on ground level and a ditch, usually around 5zlvls wide with paved floor where possible to ensure clear shots.

Oh and ditches do also give a protection to raised bridges that walls cannot provide.

They all fit together rather nicely.
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this design maximizes offensive power, but does not work with my fort design because i need as much as level 1 as possible for above-ground farming (im too lazy to pump up water and make hydroponic towers). I also tend to relay only on marksdwarves as military, so the smaller towers that cover wall-huggers serve other important purposes as well, like cleaning up resurrected undead that refuse to move, goblins outside of the main bunker's range that refuse to move, and give me more map control in general.

thing is, enemies will not normally jump in a moat unless there was a retracting bridge that was under them. Which in turn makes it a pit, not a moat. And enemies need to literally be hugging your fortification to shoot through it, if they are 1 Z level below and hugging the wall, they cannot shoot through it (the fortification 1 level above) as they are literally hugging the wall below. (i do notice my marksdwarves cant reach them either from behind the fortification if theyre close enough but i have smaller towers that can cover those spots as well.
 the fortification design is like this:
   F d___ X     where the g is the goblin, W is wall, F is fortification and d is dwarf.
g W_____X

but what purpose does a moat serve that a wall doesnt?

cage mazes are really reliable, make the maze entrance on the other side of the map away from the horde if you're afraid of losing your miner (though this is very unlikely as zombies and necromancers are pure melee, and cage traps slow them down).

my method is foil-proof if you do it right since you're underground and there is no way the zombies can get at you, only dig the up and then down stair after all cage traps are loaded (you can dig up from underground if ppl didnt know). You need at least 50 for a army that size though and having a door at the end in case you somehow dont have enough cage traps works too, just forbid it if they get too close.

the maze can be sealed with a lever-controlled retracting bridge later for future use, raising bridges in place of walls in the maze makes for easy maintenance, just dont forget to raise those walls when in use.

oh, but be warned that mazes on their own are not good against goblins since if a squad leader is caged then the goblins wont advance down the maze (zombies are different as they each path independently). Mazes can be adapted for goblins via a way to flood the entire maze with water (or magma if you use green glass cages only and magma safe mechanisms). Water is easier because of aquifiers, but magma is funner.

my first dwarven caravan brought a stack of 10 "liquids(10)" in a barrel that does not fit into any stockpile category. Is this the result of raw duplication? the only modding i did was to creatures and the entity raw for world gen (mainly starting biomes and world constructions). I did not add any new creatures, only changed existing ones' stats around. I also did not touch items or reactions at all.

once the cake on the platter is all eaten (or if you've stabbed the waiter to death and then ate it) its gone. I dont think throwing up the cake works.