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[Hyndis]

The entrance to my fortress is guarded by a fortress which houses another fortress which houses my barracks.

[Miggy]

My entrance is simply a grand hall with some pillars (some pillars acting as tubes leading to my barracks). I use it as a killing zone for when goblins arrive, it's where they meet my military. That way my dwarves won't have to suffer from cave adaptation (even though I'm training them with open roofs, so they don't get it in the first place), and I don't feel like making a massive outside fortress is very dwarven. My fortress has a few small protrusions above-ground, maybe a few built statues and a single tower, but the actual fortress is below ground, where it belongs. As are the defences.

[doctorspoof]

You should definetly carve your entrance tunnel to look like a giant mouth coming out of the ground

[shadowclasper]

My entrance always has 3 bridges, and one long and curvy side tunnel filled with weapon traps (each one armed with 1 of each of the 5 types of trap weapons). 3 chains are put across the main (3 tile wide) main entrance, between the 2nd and 3rd raising draw bridges. Middle dog is hunting, other two are war dogs. Set up so they guard the exit to the side tunnel and any thieves moving past will be seen. The first draw bridge closes off EVERYTHING for emergencies. 2nd pair of bridges are linked to each other so that they close at the same time, creating a small room with the guard dogs. Only way into this room is the twisty-1-tile-wide-passage of certain doom and dismemberment. Military cleans up the remains of anyone who kills the dogs

[Halykan]

Magma waterfall defense mechanism.  Also, make the floor out of bars of coke and see if you can get the floor tiles to ignite (It's possible, and I've done it before, I think it has to do with being under/next to something that's !!burning!!).  Then try to figure out what to do with an entrance that's permanently on fire.

If the only entrance into your fortress is through the flaming floor tiles, would sieges still path through them? I'm guessing they would. To be honest, I've never had a lot of fire in my fortress - is it effective against goblins or are they made of asbestos like dwarf beards?

[Shrugging Khan]

First comes a trapped and double-drawbridge-secured entrance tunnel.
Then the trade depot, so the traders die first if ever an enemy should penetrate the first line of defense.
Then the barracks, and the trading goods (crafts) stockpiles.

And after all that, corridors and staircases branching off into the rest of the sprawling, disorderly fortress.