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[Qwicol]

My current fort is under siege [~40 gobbos, 10 trolls and a Deamon master]. Dwofs are safe inside but:
Only ores available are: tetrahedrite, galena, garnierite, native gold and native platinum [a bit]
No coal, only ~30 logs from previous caravan.
Caravan from mountainhomes was annihilated by synchronizing arrival with current siege and my requested steel, iron and coal lie outside.

Should I made complete copper armor and weapons and go for caverns and magma?
I know that copper is shitty material for weapons and armors but how good it will be when masterwork? On par with iron?

[Di]

Corridor with ~51 cage trap 

[Dynastia]

Copper arrows, hammers and maces are excellent (better than steel, I believe). Copper spears are functional. But for swords, axes and armour, even masterwork won't put them on par with iron. I'd suggest building a detour route into your fortress with a drowning chamber or a dodge stairwell and bringing the invaders into it. Don't make a long cage-trap corridor unless you have a way of clearing it out if the leader should be caged (ie, integrate it into a drowning chamber or a ballista range)

[Erkki]

Wait it out. Goblins will siege you max 4-ish months before they give up. Its possible for the next siege to arrive within minutes of the previous one leaving, but you should have the time to pick up anything you want from the destroyed caravan.

Regarding trees: if you have discovered caverns, dig out massive rooms in the soil layers. You'll have some full grown years within 1,5 years, a 100 x 100 room makes sure you will have enough wood for metal industry as long as it isnt on round the clock. Alternatively, you could always dig deep to get magma.

EDIT: copper isnt that bad against Goblins. The goblins only wear mail shirts(copper or iron), cap/helm and shield. 2/3 of Goblin edged weapons will penetrate your copper armor less than half the time while your weapons will penetrate goblin clothing, usually, just fine, and in 1/3 of the times their armor too. Use spears if you want to be sure. Copper crossbows are also as good as any other, and copper bolts are pretty much the best bolts, and in your case most economic too. If theres no return fire it doesnt matter what they shoot any way.

[Darkweave]

1. Find magma
2. Build a pump stack
3. Build a burning magma death trap menacing with spikes and kittens
4.
5. Profit 

[Liber celi]

First, go for the Magma to solve the fuel problem. Forever.

Possible Solutions for Gobbos(as suggested above):
1.Traps
TONS of Cagetraps should be fine. Atomsmasher, if you are lazy. The Demon guy will probably flee, after his troops are smashed to an invisible paste. Dwarfness:++
2.Military
copper crossbows + bolts for 2/3 of the army, equip the others with copper shields + maces. you will need some leather though, for quivers, and a doctor for the aftermath.Dwarfness:+++
3.Wait
...Dwarfness:+
4.Mama
Pumpstacks. Pumpoperators. Temporal Reservoirs. Machicolation. COMBUSTION.
Dwarfness:+++++++++++++++++

[Corneria]

You have galena, and silver is much better than copper for blunt weapons like crossbows and hammers.

[Broseph Stalin]

You have galena, and silver is much better than copper for blunt weapons like crossbows and hammers.

I'm pretty sure you have to recieve silver weapons from a caravan.

[Corneria]

You have galena, and silver is much better than copper for blunt weapons like crossbows and hammers.

I'm pretty sure you have to recieve silver weapons from a caravan.

Nope.

[FrisianDude]

4.Mama

Tell their mothers what bad boys they've been? That doesn't sound particularly Dwarflike.

[Table Turning]

"But MOOOOOOOOOOOM, what if I WANT to siege a Dwarf Fortress?"

[Tevish Szat]

If you're early in the game, there's no shame waiting out a siege, especially when there's a demon (magma-proof, non-drowning, trap-avoiding, un-atom-smashable, probably flying, possibly syndrome-inflicting and/or fire-slinging) come to lead them: by the time you could set up to break this siege, via megaproject death machine, danger-room trained copper/silver military, or GCS-webbed cage traps, it'll have gotten bored and left.  Best work on one of the more destructive solutions, though: there will be more, though probably without the demon to worry about.

[nightwhips]

4.Mama

Tell their mothers what bad boys they've been? That doesn't sound particularly Dwarflike.

Mama Pumpstack, no less.

That's what I'm going to name my magma repeater, I think.

[C0NNULL]

I'm pretty sure you have to recieve silver weapons from a caravan.

I knew that to be wrong, but just 1 minute ago I asked a dorf to make me a silver hammer, just in case. No worries, I have an extra hammer of silver.