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[Lightning4]

Post .31: Mightytraded - 16 years. Was my longest running .31 fort, and could've probably lasted longer. FPS woes was part of the dealbreaker for me, the second half was the fact that a syndrome started running around all of my fort and started killing my dwarves. Wasn't really up to the task of disease containment and cleaning with 200+ dwarves. And worst of all, it popped up out of nowhere. Most of the dwarves who initially got hit by the contaminant survived, then some months later dwarves just started falling unconscious and dying.
To be honest I don't know whether it was the most recent contaminant, or the persistent 'stunning' contaminant that spread to my entire population+animals many, many years prior. I thought it was harmless, but maybe it had a trigger period of many years? I doubt it, but a scary thought nonetheless.

Pre .31: Silverstraps - 21 years. This was an old 2d-version fort. Once it got rolling, nothing really was a threat. I think mere boredom killed this one. Never bothered getting into the blue stuff.

Honorable mention: Steppecastles - 11+ years for a fort in the mid-3d era. I forget which version, possibly the .40x versions. It honestly felt like I played it a lot longer than I did. Because of how much digging and planning I did.

All three are on the DF Map archive too, for those who feel like looking at them.

[Pukako]

Deathcrafts - it reached the lessened limit of 100 dwarves, fought off goblins, tried to start a war with the elves, built a HUGE wall out of glass blocks, spelt out 'DEATH CRAFTS' in writing across the landscape, and mined out a stack (well, about 40) bars of shiny stuff, and there's about 500 gold statues around the place.

About 11 years, but then things stopped happening.  No sieges, no goblins, no kobolds anymore.  Still have the save, but it's more of a screensaver than a game at present.

Although knowing I have one fort that didn't die a horrible upsetting death is kind of nice.

[Reudh]

Creaturebolt was in its eighth year when it fell to Lethari Jadeflame the Sizzling of Diamonds (a single season previous a goblin siege AND a hydra showed up at the same time, hence weakening my newfound military skills- not a one of the 14 militia about Novice... training sucks.) I greased the wheels of the war machine of Creaturebolts massively, churning out bone bolts and a new crossbowdwarf every few minutes. I smithed armour and weapons (iron only, hadn't any flux, nor had found cotton candy) and assigned 35 extra untrained but fully armoured militia. It fell horribly to Lethari until the final fighter left able, the mayor and blacksmith "Stuart the Hardy Boatleg who I drafted most hurriedly. Lethari crippled with multiple wounds, fractures, dents and everything- Stuart lost both arms fighting the dragon and then kicked it in its fractured skull, killing it, then lay down to die.

Boldropes fell twice. First one after 5 years. Second one after 8 more. First due to the Boldropes Civil War- due to my accidentally ordering militia to kill goblins I hadn't noticed I marked my own civ's traders too, which marked everyone as enemies AND members.
Second time due to a siege AND clown invasion, plus ambush.

[Cydonian Monk]

Tombriders.  Back in 40d.  It lasted something around 32 years, and fell to a tantrum spiral /after/ I cleaned out the HFS.  That world ran for another 20+ years, and I eventually reclaimed Tombriders and eeked another 3-4 years out of it.  Then 40d ceased to be.

I can't get even a 2x2 20-dwarf fort to run for more than 10-12 years on the current version before FPS death (less than 15 is when I jump ship), so I doubt I'll top Tombriders anytime soon.  My current expedition, Firethirst, has made it seven or maybe eight years (and is remarkably still around 150 FPS), so it might have a shot.  If I ever find time to play again.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

Lanterndark is 50 years old exactly.

Over 100 artifacts, most of them weapons.  Every dwarf in my fortress guard carries an artifact crossbow.  Every dwarf save one miner and one woodcutter wears full blue plate (including blue flask).  Ranger squad wears blue backpacks as well.  Never got around to nethercap shields for everyone.  Circus conquered, although I never bothered to build anything down there.  Zoo full of trapavoids, one of which kills through its cage via boiling noxious secretions.  Hexagonal steel keep, each level of which is huge-- one level contains 20 private hospital rooms, each 9 tiles large (plus walls); another, the dining room, and another, the dormitory.  The keep is surrounded by 12 steel towers for workshops, related stockpiles, and barracks.  Fully enclosable roof-bridges.  Three roads extend to the map edges: one of iron blocks, one of marble blocks, and one of willow blocks.  Built a clock-- all it does is run an accurate sundial.  Militia commander is fighter 80 (per report of runesmith) and has over 200 notable kills-- legendary everything, of course, including legendary teacher.  Only one crippled dwarf (the paraplegic woodcutter, but he's got such high military skills that he manages to bat away all ambushers' arrows), although there have been plenty of deaths.  No regent for my civ, but my duchess is still alive, as is her heir-- I wanted to see if there was a possibility of the heir getting the position if the duchess died of old age, but that'd take another fifty years or so.  Also wanted to provoke war with the elves, but in 50 years of trying, I have not been able to do so.

Shame the fps is so low.  Had to make a new world to do some engineering research.

[Greiger]

I think it was about 14 years, I don't remember the fortress name.  It was in the old 2D versions and it fell to the old school pre-HFS. 

It was pretty awesome for one of my fortresses, the chasm was red lined, and I had a boatmurdered style FTW system using magma(never actually used outside of a test run), all the river crossings had safety rails and an underground tree farm that extended from about midpoint almost to the north-most point on the map. (which also had a dwarf catcher a few tiles downriver  before it reached the main tunnel.  In case somebody was in the tree farm during the floods)

Beats all my more recent fortresses by at least 5 years, in both age and style.

[azrael4h]

Copperabbey, my current fort, at a paltry 5 and a half years. The past year and a half has largely been in lockdown, though I do have access to my court yard/intended aboveground building, the mass of goblins on the hill directly behind me means my workers tend to not work much out there, just run around like chickens with their heads cut off.

I have no military, but am planning to reorganize labor and shuffle as many as possible into conscription, as I have tons of iron ore and even a number of weapons and armor forged to combat the goblins. However, as my catacombs already house about 3 times my current living population, with about as many dead dwarves scattered around outside needing recovery, I doubt this fort will survive my attempt at an offensive.

[Komra]

I love how most long-term forts succumb to FPS problems rather than actual attack- me, I'm sitting pretty on a 110-dwarf fortress at 55 FPS Then again, no pump stacks or anything, but still doing well as a fortress otherwise.