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[Dendou]

I'm new and was wondering what other people consider a "good first year on the job".
So post the accomplishments you've made from the time of your embarkment to the first dwarver caravan arriving (I know that's not quite a full year)

Right now I have a 100x3 hallway with a battery of ballistae made out of masterpiece parts of both ends(both protected by chanells), each dorf has a grand bed/coffin/table/throne, my army is 0(other than a half dozen war dogs), I have 16k in tradable goods, a couple of stonetraps, a main dining area, a floodable entrygate, 6/7 legendary dorfs, and almost done with my first ever waterfall

I know most of you can probably beat that easy but I still feel proud.  What kind of contraptions have you guys got?

[Fishbulb]

Last fort I started, by the time the first caravan showed up, none of my dwarves had starved to death or been eaten by carp. That was a big win for me.

Can't say that was still true by the time the second caravan arrived, though.

[dogstile]

Definitely mine. I'm in a desert with no wood and an aquifer is proving trouble, and i've only lost about 13 dwarves to the giant bats in the cave

(yes, i'm kidding, this is going horribly wrong, and i'm loving it)

[Shaostoul]

I'd have to say the one I'm playing right now. I dug into a small mountain turned into pyramid (bottom level was able to fit the largest sized stockpile -1, before the first caravan I had 2 farms producing food, a river redirected to supply water all, a trade depot set up and secured by walls and traps and a single military dwarf and a few wardogs, I could've just sealed the door shut and been happy, but I'm trying not to do that.

[Chewykittens]

I empty wagon a lot so if I have no deaths and enough bone/leather crafts to buy a pickax or battle ax I'm happy. Of course if I do have enough, they don't have any...

[Danjen]

If I do it right, I can usually establish a suitable dining room, private bedrooms, fully smoothed walls/floors, and a constant food stockpile. Most times, I do a haggard job of it, being too busy mining out a permanent stockpile and industry area, and making an overly elaborate bridged entrance.

[Beanchubbs]

I usually don't try to over-do it during my first year because I use orcs and they are attracted to my fortresses rather quickly. Usually what I do is set up enough farms to last me for quite a while, set up a basic defensive perimeter, including drawbridge systems. I also try to clear the land near/set up the base of where my first project will be set. Other than that, I don't do much during the first  year.

[Mapleleaf]

A good first year for me is when I get a barracks, an entrance hall and a nice 3 z level dining room, fully smoothened up and running.

First caravan usually arrives when that's finished, after that comes stockpiles/farms.

[silhouette]

SURVIVING.
But this is insane mode...
starting on the edge of a map with the sea.
terrifying region.
UNDEAD WHALES AND MILLIONS OF UNDEAD FISH SWARM.
no time to get a wall up to block them out .
reclaimed this place... like 10 times already, part of the wall is up...

damn i want this megaproject to be done...
Its basically going to be a dwarven prison complex
(no sane dwarf would try to escape out of fear for the moat i shall channel around it... and the skeletal fishies that will ... unlive in it.

[labouts]

I love moats and towers. For me, it is a good first year if I set up a very large moat with big drawbridges and erect a good tower without losing any dwarves or getting low on Food/Drink. Bonus points if the moat is magma.