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[Dwarf fort 27]

catching species of animals to use in my arena, iv got lots of lions and tigers, just training my soldiers rn to go into battle at the assighned date of arena combat. having a prison execution pretty soon also.

[Grendus]

My main fortress is nearing a barony, which is a huge achievement for me. I got the DM (who, in spite of all the awesome things I've heard, kind of sucks. He shows up with metalcrafting and furnace operator as his only metalworking skills, and fairly low ones at that. Oh well), and I just recently crashed after my first megabeast attack. The save is still good though, though I'll probably disable rent before the economy kicks in. I don't worry about jobs, I have plenty of work for my haulers to do smelting the 5 uncovered veins of magnetite, producing coke and steel, or hauling in an endless sea of orc and goblin gear.

[Derakon]

Quinnr: build a trade depot, then go look at it and hit D. Follow the green out from your depot until it turns red; that's where the obstructions are that prevent wagons from passing.

[Canadark]

My entire map is "Not wagon accesable"...do I need roads?

It is not accessible from the depot. Find your depot, press "D", and there should be a little bit of green area around it. Set your Woodcutters to work cutting trees and your masons to smooth out boulders in order to make it accessible. If you are on an island than it is not accessible.

EDIT: Derakon beat me to it. He explains it better.

[Lord Shonus]

Just in case the previous two posters were not clear enough (which they probably were) the "D" command shows navigability of each tile to your trade depot, not the ability of wagons to travel on the red-marked tiles. If, for example, you build your depot in this arrangement:

#######
#______#
#______
#______
#______
#______#
#######

(The #s are walls, and the _s are the Depot)

and a tree grows at this location

#######
#______#
#______
#______X
#______
#______#
#######

The entire map will be red, because it is impossible for a wagon to reach your depot from any point, even if the tree by the depot is the only one on the map. Keep in mind that wagons need a passage at least 3 tiles wide.

On topic, I finally managed to get a water wheel working

[Gergination]

I think I understand.  He just built it next to a crazy high cliff.  I'm just so used to building on top of said cliff.

[MrFake]

Decided my above-ground fort needed an above-ground magma forge:

• Spent a few years building a completely above-ground reservoir almost twice the size of the magma pipe.  Damn but it was a nightmare micromanaging the walls.
• Was halfway through when I realized I needed to punch through an aquifer to pump magma up from the ground.  Spent a year or so pumping out, walling up, and widening the hole through the aquifer.
• Built an entire set of glass pumps and constructed an isolated pump stack into the side of the reservoir.  Reached the top (walls and all) and forgot it needed power.
• Wasted a year designing and implementing a windmill power system; scrapped it.  Wasted another year designing and building a perpetual motion device; scrapped it.  Spent a third year building an aquifer-based power plant and a power delivery system.
• I think it will only take me one more year to simultaneously divert my current magma channel to the new fort, build an extension of the fort for the magma workshops, and complete the piping into the workshop.

I'm proud that I've made it this far with this cursed fort, as this is just a side project.

[Skorpion]

My elven genocide project, in which I'm going to decorate a cinnabar quern with every single toxic metal I can, and exchange for their entire caravan one year.
And then wait for them to die.

Wait, does that actually WORK?! I mean, If YOU used it, would it poison your food supply?

No, but I like to pretend it does.

I'm proud of retrieving a pair of artifact steel greaves from the magma moat. Someone fell in a year or so ago, so I had to obsidian it up to retrieve them.
Never fucking again am I making a magma moat. Water is SO much easier to cope with, and doesen't set fire to or melt stuff when you screw up.

[Silfurdreki]

I'm pretty proud of my freshwater supply system I just activated. It supplies the fortress with freshwater and also keeps all the pumps and other power-consuming things running (including the system itself!). I even think the dwarves can fish in it, should they want to.

It's supplied by a major river, and is basically a rerouting of it, using water pressure and screw pumps. It can almost handle the flow of the major river, but not quite, it drains at the edge of the map a bit faster than the pumps can supply water.

Check here for the map (most of the system itself is one z-level down)

[Jude]

I was real proud of locating an aquifer and pinpointing its location without flooding anything.

Then I noticed that the recent FPS drop was caused it actually leaking into and (because it took me so long to notice) ultimately dooming the lowest 3 z-levels of my mines.

Oh well. I got most of the good ore out of there already anyhow...if by "good ore" you mean fucktons of copper and the odd hematite vein.

[Gergination]

Never fucking again am I making a magma moat. Water is SO much easier to cope with, and doesen't set fire to or melt stuff when you screw up.

Sharpen your axes lads, we got us an elven infiltrator.

[shadowclasper]

MAGMA IS LIFE! If ya want to avoid the problems of people falling in, make a single retracting bridge across it, then put a wall on either side, and build it ALL the way across so they support each other. Makes it impossible to fall in, but you CAN drop people.