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[Thanshin]

How often do you build external constructions?

I started not building anything at all but, as time passes, I'm starting to put all kinds of crap on the sunny part of the surface.

All surrounded by walls or other means of complete defense, but still constructed outside.

Aqueducts
Catapult towers.
Marksdwarves' training grounds
Windmills
Safe Bunkers for lost woodcutters or fishermen.

It's gone so far that I even start making small channeled squares scattered around my main entrance right from the beginning, so I can later safely dig up on their center and start a moated tower.

[Sphalerite]

Most of my fortresses lately include massive above-ground structures.  My current megaproject is an above-ground pyramid, where only tombs and water/power/magma utility systems are underground.  Terribly undwarven of me, I know.

[Kaiser Reinhard]

Waterwheels and power transmitters
Sniper towers spread out all across the map, connected by overhead pathways
Alternatively, bunkers connected by underground pathways
Drawbridges to seal off areas
Steel walls as barriers

I don't build aqueducts, water is supplied to my fort through underground pipes.

[Kaiser Reinhard]

Accidentally clicked on quote instead of modify

[Yuck]

My barracks is just about always the entrance to my fortress and outside. Makes things easier when i want everybody but soldiers to NOT be there.

[Quantum Toast]

I've always got a walled-off compound outside the main entrance, and I try to keep windmills walled in and safe from enemies too.

Besides that, just the occasional pointless tower.

[CobaltKobold]

Walls, since I don't usually go for the EVERYTHING UNDERGROUND mode.
Once made a butchery (/tanning/leatherworks) compound too, for hunters.

[Loyal]

Barracks and related facilities are built "outside" or close enough to it. Additional levels will be added to form a tower, for archery ranges, weapon/ammo/armor storage, and so on.

I may also build some additional towers in other places outside of the fort, with beds and maybe dining halls, so that my patrolling champions can stay near their assigned posts when they need to take a break. I will definately be doing this more often in the next version, when burrows can ensure that my civilian dwarves aren't running to the opposite end of the map to get some shut-eye in the watchtowers.

[wagawaga]

I usually build the barracks, as seeing my soldiers getting tunned as soon as they get out is quite annoying, and it halves their speed too.

[darthbob88]

First off, I generally build a fair-sized compound above ground, both as part of the defences, to provide additional space for working and stockpiling, and to provide my masons with something to do with the multiple tons of obsidian we have in our stockpiles.

Military areas are usually outside and always above ground, though my fortress is large enough and self-sufficient enough that I can wait out most sieges, or wait until the invaders actually come under the curtain walls.

Other than that, refuse stockpiles, butchers, tanners and anything else which rots are outside, because I'd rather not have to deal with miasma in my fortress. Likewise, the arena where captured goblins are broken down for parts is set where the miasma won't be a problem. Farm plots are laid out above ground because I happen to like whip wine, rope reed, and emerald dye, thankyouverymuch.

[Heliomance]

I rarely have anything above ground except the refuse pile, not even a farm plot. Quite often I attempt to have as little impact on the surface as possible. My current fortress, however, is an above-ground megaproject - it's teaching me a lot!

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

I'm strictly above ground constructions, aside from quarrys and basements, sewers and the like.

[CobaltKobold]

I don't build my farms outside, strictly speaking. I bash an 8x5/6 hole next to where I dug my belowground farms.

[Skorpion]

Extensively. One of my first operations is to throw up a curtain wall arrangement, then an entrance corridor. Later, I punch a hole for underground farming, roof over the courtyard for archers, slap fortifications on, and extend the walls. My last fort had fortifications stretching around a good half of the map, including an archery tower and pumps for filling the lava moat. Then I got carried away and built a gigantic tower and started paving over the sky.