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[Serious Business]

Hello, I'm quite new to the forums(I've been playing a long time though) need some help.  I can get a fortress going and keep it running but I usually just give up once this happens.  I need a real big goal to keep me going, like constructing a certain building or capturing megabeasts and making them fight for my entertainment.  So I have come to you, dear forum for help.  Any Ideas?

[FritzPL]

Dig straight down.

[weenog]

Above ground defensive walls are a good start, but a multiple-level castle complete with siege engines, choke points, murder holes and crenellations, a well-stocked armoury, enough food to last out a long gruelling siege, fancy throne rooms and such for your nobles and royals, and the whole interior done up in the nicest materials available to give it a feeling of wealth and grandeur, is significantly more cool.

[misko27]

Dig Deeper.

[ptb_ptb]

I'm using a 7x7 embark over a mountain peak with +119 Z-levels from surface to topmost peak to build Minas Tirath.

[Loud Whispers]

Acquire 10 legendary potash makers

[brainfreez]

has circus visited your fort yet ? if yes then build a new fortress in the circus !

[Ultimuh]

Hollow out an entire mountain.

[Oaktree]

Build an amusement park.  Half for the dwarves to skip around on and half for the goblins to bleed in.

With the minecarts it should be possible to do rollercoasters, merry-go-rounds, and "boat"* rides.

* - Though I think the dwarf might bail out before you can skip the minecart across the pond/lake.

[efraker]

I like building huge armies in areas that are half non-evil, half-terrifying. I build a crusader army of a hundred+ dwarves, live on the surface in the non-evil side, with no traps or walls. I usually end up carving out huge catacombs for my dead.

Its hard on the FPS but I always liked building fortresses you have to enter by walking through a waterfall...

I've been meaning to start wrapping my head around minecarts so I can use them as drop-pods for a squad of valkyries who race down the tracks from their mountain-top aerie...

Its pretty easy and old-fashioned, but I like building huge water-towers... 30z levels tall, 7x7, with a 7x7 retracting bridge as the floor... fill it with water, station it over a narrow bridge over a chasm... open it up when somebody comes by. Watching elves get all their bones broken by the concussive force of water is almost as satisfying as watching hippies get sprayed with a fire hose.

[PwndJa]

Like many others have said, dig deeper.

Maybe your dwarves are an expeditionary military force sent to [Your embark] because your civ is at war with the circus. Maybe the plan was to build a massive fortress dedicated to entertaining the clowns. Maybe the plans for said fortress involve setting up an outpost inside the circus tent. Maybe you go there after the fact with an adventurer. Maybe that fortress was built with the intention of entertaining adventurers, too.

[higgypig]

Ive been down this road before, DF is a game that requires YOU to make up the fun. Use your imagination, build huge projects, I love to build massive Golden pyramids for my best fallen warriors, and I usually bury them with whatever killed them. Start an above ground fortress, embark in an evil area and wipe out undead.

[celem]

Build a temple to Armok atop a volcano, one of those reached with the really long stair ya'know?  Points for ability to run magma down the staircase for unworthy 'pilgrims'

[Loud Whispers]

I like building huge armies in areas that are half non-evil, half-terrifying. I build a crusader army of a hundred+ dwarves, live on the surface in the non-evil side, with no traps or walls. I usually end up carving out huge catacombs for my dead.

This. This oh so much. I've been trying to build a wall separating the two sides. Turns out, it's not that easy. 100z lvls of air to build up through, and I've only gotten the wallz to zlvl 3

[ThatAussieGuy]

HERE IS YOUR CHALLENGE! - Clense the Damned
-Venture onto a half-haunted/half pleasant biome, for the good of all, heh, good races
-Seal off the Haunted side with a wall.  No evil must cross into the happy land of the Dwarves
-Dig deep and draw magma from the earth.  Use it to clense the Haunted side of all evil that treads it.
-All who perish must be dumped on the Haunted side, retroactively after the wall is complete if it is not done.  Their bodies are foul and tainted, unfit for the pleasant community on the happy side.
-Devise a way to weaponize the local rain and/or clouds of mist.  Because the site is a happy place and should not be tainted by such foul things.  They should be inflicted on the Haunted side, instead.