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[Kellaris]

Or anything else to attack me? Ive recently put the finishing touches on my prisoner drowning machine and want to throw something other than camels in it.

[ext0l]

Increase your population size and wealth. Or mod goblins to come at lower population/exported wealth.

[Kellaris]

Would I keep building things like crossbows n such to increase wealth?

[Duntada Man]

Maybe reduce the amount of weapons you are making. I would be less likely to invade a guy who makes M-16's for a living, than say a guy who makes gold bars, and braces for his weak wrists.

[Cotes]

And of course make sure you actually embark somewhere with others civs.

Maybe reduce the amount of weapons you are making. I would be less likely to invade a guy who makes M-16's for a living, than say a guy who makes gold bars, and braces for his weak wrists.

...Is that kind of "fortress reputation" actually implemented in DF?

[Girlinhat]

Attackers ONLY look at created wealth and population.  Make ☼Platinum Statue☼'s or ☼Large Serrated Steel Disks☼'s and watch them flock to you.

[krenshala]

If they knew your fortress's immense wealth was due to the thousands of serrated steel disks and masterwork mechanisms it manufactures, I'm sure they would think at least twice about trying to take your stuff.  Since they show up anyway, I'm pretty sure DF only looks at the value to see if you are ripe for ambushes/sieges, and ignores just how you got to such wonderfully high numbers.

[Girlinhat]

I dunno, every ambush lends no survivors, or else gives only a few wounded goblins to return to their town and gibber softly about the amount of blood, and the hundreds of sawblades bigger than a human, all coming crashing down on them.  Then they return, the next season, to witness their captured breatheren thrown from the tower walls, their liberated limbs hitting the newest ambushers and bruising them, and yet they move forward...

Goblins are only a bit smarter than dwarves, after all goblins will flee when injured.  But only a LITTLE smarter, mind you...

[Marthnn]

Attackers ONLY look at created wealth and population.  Make ☼Platinum Statue☼'s or ☼Large Serrated Steel Disks☼'s and watch them flock to you.

And yet in my current fortress, at 33M dwarfbucks, I have yet to see a single goblin... I checked Legends to make sure they existed close enough, they were present in the neighbourging civs at embark... I will end up figuring out why they're absent. War with humans or elves is next. Or letting the cutie kobolds get away with masterwork crafts instead of chopped off heads.

[Girlinhat]

That's because goblins tend to die off in worldgen without a bit of modding and/or luck.  Their tower exists, but no actual goblins.

[Chocolatemilkgod]

Weird fact: Making traps will help defend you, but because of their massive value they will also attract uninvited Fun.