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[Fredd]

Using the burrow menu is a good way to help visualize the ground floor layout of a surface fortress, with its tools. Helps you to remember whats going where, along with notes

[Jazzeraint]

Most of it within the first season.

I start out with three proficient miners these days.

I also cave-in my wagon and floor up the hole to quickly get everything underground and under lockdown.

[wuphonsreach]

I usually designate out my entire fortress, but i leave 1 tile wide gaps in large sections of it so i can keep my miners from carving out the stupid stuff untill i have some spare time.

Yep, that's a key method.

You can designate early all you want, but don't give miners access to all of it.  My priority is to get a perimeter up ASAP (usually 30x30 or 40x40) consisting of trenches / walls.  Then I'll carve down and dig out my primary stairs.  I generally work with (4) 2x2 stairs with 13 empty tiles between the stairs.

[Patchy]

Right off after embark I lay out very little. My goal at that point is to drop a shaft all the way to the magma sea and start mapping it and the caverns out. Once that is done I'll start laying out where I want stuff and then leaving them disconnected until I'm ready. Works better that way so I don't designate an area for my dining hall/residences and find out that there is a magma bubble in the way or worse yet a refilling portion of the magma sea.