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[Sutremaine]

Can you give us a reference to where that's stated?

Quietust posted it at some point. He's the guy with access to a lot of the game's nuts and bolts.

[tenshi99]

automated atom-smasher solve most of invasions. easy. automated. deadly dangerous. dorfy

[EvilBob22]

The tenshi99 gestures!
The Bay12 thread corpse shudders and begins to move!

 

[jcochran]

Do dragons need a path to their targets to fry them? Cause I was thinking of putting a raising bridge between him and the fortifications to avoid snipergoblins, and another to close off its enclosure so it cant charge out into melee.

I have  nice enough military, but superheated lizard-spit seems dorfier

My own experience with dragons tells me.
1. The silly lizards won't breath fire through fortifications.
2. They don't need a path in order to breath fire.

With one of my war trained dragons, I dug a 3x3 vertical walled pit 1 level deep leaving the central tile intact on top of which I then designated a 1x1 pasture zone where I placed the dragon. Access to the pasture was via a retracting bridge. The dragon was then unable to move from his pasture and would happily fry any enemies who got too close. Had to replace a few hatch covers and pressure plates that got caught in the dragon fire as well. When I replaced those destroyed items, I also built a few "shadow walls" that would keep the replacements out of the line of fire.

[Bihlbo]

I gave up the real estate-hogging corridor design a while back. I didn't like how insecure it was. What I'm doing now is a:

Spoiler: Spiral Tower of Doooom!! (click to show/hide)

Base

The doorway to the west is where dwarfs get in. That doesn't lead anywhere during a siege, in which case invaders have to plow through the cage traps on the north side to get into the tower. All that empty space could eventually be filled with spike traps, but that isn't necessary.

Level 1

The dwarf entrance leads to that bridge. During a siege all the tower bridges raise, forming walls. Invaders that got past the cage traps have to run around the perimeter of weapon traps to get to the next stair leading up.
As you can see, I'm not done filling it with traps. The first layer is all cheap weapons, 2-4 in each trap, with mediocre mechanisms. I want it to soften them to prolong their suffering, because spite.

Levels 2+

All the middle levels look like this. That bridge allows trap installers/cleaners to quickly access the level without having to spiral up or down. Obviously those bridges raise.

Top

The top level is what invaders are after: the entrance to the fort. Here is where the best traps will go, each with masterwork mechanisms and a full 10 steel/glass masterwork trap weapons. Once the top layer is done the wealth of the fort will be raised by upwards of 100,000 urists so I'm expecting sieges a-plenty. The statue at the elbow there is both a plug (they don't need to path that space) and bait for building destroyers. I'll be replacing the path to the door with another bridge so I can drop invaders down 12 z-levels for the lulz.

Speaking of which, yes that empty space is there so they can fall if they dodge the wrong way. The walls around the stairs can be replaced with fortifications to take care of something that makes it past the cage traps and can fly or gets to ignore weapon traps for some reason.

If invaders make it inside the fort they will find a spot with further insurance against destruction, like a dragon or a lava splatter, or spike traps hooked up to a waterwheel power source. Something. Then, you know, 20 axelords with pet names for their choppers. I don't expect them to spill blood in the next 50 years though, so everything on the interior can wait.

[Merendel]

The tenshi99 gestures!
The Bay12 thread corpse shudders and begins to move!

 

This ones better :p

Personaly I make a 10x10 room.  In that room I build 5 1x9 raising bridges lined up with alternating sides so they force a zig zag pattern when raised(lowered when dwarves are collecting the goblinite.)  I fill the path between the bridges with traps.  First 2 rows get traps with 2-3 swords in them.  The idea is for mobs to get some bleeding wounds but hopefuly not outright kill them.  Row 3 tends to be 5 spiked balls per trap.  Aim is to cripple/kill the already bleeding targets.  row 4 is mixed assortments of 10 weapons in each trap.  At this point anything that reaches here I want dead.  They are far enough in that if leaders get here their squad is in the trap already not milling at the entrance.  row 5 is cage traps, they very rarely get triggered but anything that got through the first 4 rows is probably going to survive another one so entrapment is the best option. At the end of the coridor room is a single upstair leading to a hatch cover I can lock if I want to save my bait, A pasture where I put said bait, and a bridge that is closed any time I'm not either restocking the bait or sending dwarves in to clean out the traps.

I also tend to put a bridge at the entrance to the trap room that I can close traping anythign inside prior to my pumping in a liquid of choice if needed to finish off any straglers that didnt have the decency to die in a timely manner and are just laying on the floor in the trap room.

[Bihlbo]

I hadn't thought of filling the STD with water...  I do have a river right next to it. I could plug it, fill it, then drain it with just some levers. Oooohh, that sounds fun.