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You could try carving fortifications in the bottom floor of the tower and stationing the marksdwarves in it. The goblins shouldn't be able to shoot through it until they get close.

Natural walls will fall and remain intact, but they won't respect things like room structure. The ceiling will just fall in and become part of the floor. You could cast an obsidian tower bit by bit and sink it into the sea then dig into it from above or below.

Aye true. Currently they're limited to tundra, grassland, rivers, lakes and wetlands with some variation between what is found where. Potatoes are wetlands only for example, while nettles are found in pretty much all of the above.

Here's a link to the stuff I've got done so far, give it a test if you like and see if you think anything currently needs changed other than language stuff.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8120

I've done a quick test of the stuff done so far and it all seems to work. The only problem is that since I've outright deleted some words from the language due to there being no equivalent some norsemen have a name missing, I think I can fix that by making a Norse SYMBOL file.

Haven't done much by way of combat testing but assuming the armour works the way I intend it should be something like:

Helmet: Slightly less protective but lighter and cheaper.
Shield: Better at blocking.
Mail shirt: Covers more of the body to simulate long mail coats. Should provide better overall protection.

The plants seem to be working but are rather biome specific at the moment.

Civ starts up fine with it's current biomes.

I might put the files as they are now up for download so people can poke what I've got with a stick and tell me if something seems off. Better I get stuff dealt with now than later.

When valuable enough yes, that's where the 'Urist McLazy admired a fine door' thoughts come from.

I think the tower is at the top of the stairs.

Knew I'd forgotten something with the gold stuff, yeah I forgot to unlink the gold stockpile after I was done making shiny stuff. Also it's maskwolf whose been giving you evils, my dwarf doesn't mind if we're out of bolts.