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[Veylon]

With an eye to your defense, I'm noticing that you have no doors between your main area and the cage traps. If you have a hidden siege attack, the cage traps would catch up to four of them, but the rest would be free to savage your dwarves and you'd have no way to seal them off.

Also, the ramps next to your bridge lead into your fort instead of out. If you pull the bridge out from under an enemy and they fall in, they can immediately get up next to the closed bridge. A building destroyer could then attack the doors diagonally as well as the bridge. Ideally, there should be nowhere for an invader to stand on your side of the moat.

Otherwise, I've only got nitpicks. You've got ore in your masons' stone stockpile. That doesn't need to be there. There's a lever in an office; it should really be in the statue room so that there's always an idle dwarf nearby to pull it. The refuse heap is outside your defences; you are likely to lose a dwarf that way and you'll be completely cut off from it during sieges. Build a wall around an empty plot of land and connect it via tunnel to your fort to avoid that. I'm guessing there's a good spot directly above the dining room or farm.

On the plus side, things are reasonably compact, organized, and defensible. The dwarves have everything they need, even a gym!

[Necromunger]

My plan to avoid falling off that bridge is a military compound on the exterior of the fortress. And that bridge will be a fall-back location.

[Necromunger]

@Veylon thanks i forgot about diagonal movement in that case i will have to fix that up.

[Necromunger]

There are still a few things i'm waiting for someone to spot.

[acetech09]

Your outside animal pasture is rather tiny - you'll start getting fights. And the fact that it's outside could be a problem.

That mace-goblin outside your statue garden might be an issue too

[Nil Eyeglazed]

There are still a few things i'm waiting for someone to spot.

2 chairs to each table?

[NonconsensualSurgery]

It's a very compact and shallow fort. You're leaving space for a large megaproject?

You have dry screw pumps to train the military, but you have a bridge trap that will make ogres dodge to the side and then break the doors from the diagonal. You either like using the military or have no fear of being attacked by a large goblin siege. I'd have to compulsively line it with walls to prevent dodging onto the grass even if I wasn't expecting an attack.

The random livestock could be used as a crude kobold alarm if they were clustered directly in front of the entrance instead of off to the side, if applicable.

The lever in the room would be more effective if it were in the statue garden. Statue gardens make excellent lever rooms until you can upgrade to vampire logic.

Your trade depot is not accessible by wagon! You're missing out if this is the latest version. A three-wide hallway is a must now.

Having two chairs per table results in unhappy thoughts. Two tables end to end and two chairs has the same aesthetic effect.

[dragginmaster]

No analysis just two questions:

1) where do i need to go to get the little dwarf mans instead of the happy faces.

2) how'd u make the map blocks squares instead of rectangles?

[Necromunger]

When i get a new version of DF I:

Set graphics mode to YES

Set windowed to NO

thats it, the game figures out my resolution.

Then i make some in game key changes like Alt+Up for - and things like that.

[dragginmaster]

When i get a new version of DF I:

Set graphics mode to YES

Set windowed to NO

thats it, the game figures out my resolution.

Then i make some in game key changes like Alt+Up for - and things like that.

And thats it? No packs to install?

[martinuzz]

I see your doorways are 1-wide, as are your bedrooms. I stopped using 1-wide doorways and corridors after learning how that negatively influences FPS through pathing issues

[Necromunger]

My computer is an 8 core with a AMD 6950 graphics card. I dont reach much FPS Problems

[Necromunger]

Isn't the pathing an A* Algorithm? single doors shouldn't effect this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm

[Stefrist]

Isn't the pathing an A* Algorithm? single doors shouldn't effect this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm

A single tile path does effect it, because it needs to calculate more 'side-steps' whenever 2 players get to the same tile.
Having an empty tile right next to the double-occupied tile should make the path calculation a lot simplier.. (instead of pathing several tiles, it will commonly just read 1 tile).
Say 2 dwarves want to enter the same door at the same time, it will have to path somewhere different for 1 dwarf, only to figure out it can't actually path thru somewhere else. This calculation probably takes a lot longer than just '1 step to the side'.
I'm not too high on A* Algorithms, but I did make a simple AI pathing procedure once. (pathing around walls and such)

Also I believed that multiple cores will not help that much with Dwarf Fortress, or has there been some multiple thread feature introduced? ( I keep Dwarf fortress on 'realtime' as I figured it'll only use 1 core to the max )

I've been designing my fortress on this theory, eventho I have no clue how much ( if any) difference it makes.

[Loud Whispers]

Farms finished.

You appear to have Dwarfs growing in your farm.