It shouldn't be too hard to find a 7x7 map with those features - You'll probably want to find one with very few other featues to keep yout FPS up.
You don't need to mod it to get purple rock - you can build walls out of a purple material such as rose gold.
Excavating the map will take a long time. You'll want to do the following:
1-set up a temporary base
2-assign all who can be spared to be miners
3(i)-navigate to the highest non-mined level on the map
3(ii)-chop all trees on that level down
3(iii)-designate up ramps on the level below
3(iv)-go to 3(i)
You'll want to avoid mining out your temporary base until you have the permanent one set up. You will need to devote a small team of workers to provide food/drink and trade goods.
When it comes to the magma pipe, you will have a large problem dealing with the magma - if the walls are mined out, the magma will spill out. For this reason, I would recommend building an atomsmasher on the bottom level, let the magma flow into it, and destroy the magma that way. it will refill over time.
Mining out the magma pipe on the bottom level would be very awkward, so I would recommend not mining out the bottom level.
Dealing with invaders can take several forms:
(1) The architectural. These are bridges over pits, atomsmashers, thing like that. It is making the path to your fort hazardous, so enemies are killed on the approach. You can also place architectual defences inside the fort, and kill invaders that manage to enter that way. Traps are included in this.
(2) The military. Hammerdwarves, axedwarves, etc. Includes war animals. This relies on sending out an army to meet and kill the invaders. It requires the setting up of a military
(3) Projectiles. Siege weapons and marksdwarves. Normally their firing is limited, but if you contruct the walls of your creation out of fortifications, it will allow your projectiles to pass out while keeping your dwarves safe
(4) Fluids. The invaders cna be brought into contact with fluids by architectual methods. Bridges retracting over moats, for example. The fluid landmine can also be used. Floodgates holding back a body of fluid can be opened, resleasing the fluid. Finally, fluids can be dropped from above. If the invaders ever pass underneath anything, then one can use pumps and mechanisms to drop the fluids from above.
(4.1) Water. To kill things with water, you can either drown them or you can use a water flow to push them into other hazards.
(4.2) Magma. Now we're talking. Contact will kill most things. A magma drowning chamber isn't necessary, but is dwarvenly. Care must be taken with pumping it around.
(4.3) Encasement. There are two types of encasement - Ice and obsidian. Ice can only occur in very cold climates. If the enemies are in water that is at 2/7 or deeper, cold temperatures can make the water freeze into an ice wall, encasing and killing the enemies. Obsidian encasement occurs when the creatures are in water and magma is added. It is worth noting that although magma kills most things, encasment kills everything, so it can be worth using obsidian encasement instead of magma dousing.
(5) Cave-ins. This can be considered an architectual defence. If the surface that an enemy is standing on is linked to a support, it can be collapsed, killing whatever is underneath. Water and obsidian can also be mixed in mid air which forms obsidian which immediately caves in. Cave-ins kill whatever is underneath, but also produce dust in the surrounding area. Dust will knock out creatues, including your dwarves. knocked out creatures can be susceptible to traps when they normally aren't.
Of course, be sure to upload to the map archive!
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