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[EmperorNuthulu]

 I've started a fortress that's controlled by a secret society of freemasons who have better stuff than everyone else while the average urist lives in filth. Although these people aren't nobles, they're the vital controllers of the fortress. Would be a shame if the brewer decided to trash in his new room average dwarfs, wouldn't it?

[Minnakht]

Okay. Well, I still have much to learn...

The second floor of the entrance fort is made of kaolinite, and the ones above that are made of gypsum, which I have way too much of after excavating a tree farm room. And it isn't very large yet either way... The gypsum floors could have barracks and generally military stuff inside. One of the floors has fortifications on the outside, so if I station some marksdwarves there and raise the drawbridges while goblins wait on the outside pad...

[Talikmon]

Started in a cold area.  Spent most of the first year burrowing in (but not getting any traps or cages setup) and grabbing some water when the ice melted for a while.  Had just seen the dwarven caravan off when a Sasquatch entered my fort.  At this point I had no military, no traps, no cages and only 18 dwarfs.  I have never encountered one before so I wasn't too sure about the menace level.  After he ripped a poor farmer apart I realised he needed to be contained before I could deal with him properly.  Unfortunately my long tunnel entrance (only thing on the first floor for sealing/safety purposes) which has doors on either end failed me.  One of my other farmers, terrified at the slobbering monstrosity happened to drop a single plump spawn in the door    By the time my third dwarf dropped he Sasquatch had earned a )(*$#@#$ name for himself.  So I militarize my one miner and give him my war dogs.  He rushes off to..... get some water. 

When they do finally meat the cowardly beast actually turns tail and runs.  The miner and his woof are chasing but failing to close the distance... the bastard is going to get away!  Luck strikes when bigfoot tries to exit the door I still had control over.  I quickly lock it and the yeti is too stupid to head for the spawn-blocked door.  My miner damages his hand and bigfoot runs the other way back into my fort.  They clash again halfway down the passage with bigfoot going yellow on everything.  A few seconds later however and all his wounds have disappeared and gone white again 

Between the dog nipping at his heels and my miner giving it all hes got it is only enough to keep bigfoot busy but not dead.  So I add 9 more to the squad and they all pile into the fight amidst a thick cloud of miasma.  I imagine it must have been a horrible site from the outside - just the sweaty grunts of stunties bashing away at something that just wont friggin die.  It takes a few minutes of constant bashing for the thing to peg.  All in all, 2 farmers, 2 war dogs and one peasant dead.  Turns out the war dogs did die but the remaining untrained dogs decided to join in.  Only injury sustained amongst the survivors was a single red thumb (the first miner to fight). 

[Beardless]

In a moment of creativity, I built a wall around the only entrance to my fort, out of pure bauxite. I then added kaolinite drawbridges leading to distant bauxite wall spots with ramps. This way, everything going into my fort has to pass over at least nine tiles of drawbridge.

Just wait until your goblins turn out to be mounted on giant eagles (or worse).

[Dachande]

Well, I started a new fort... Once I hit summer, I decided to check up on my stocks, and what I found was.....

An adamantine short sword.

Now, how the hell did that get there? I haven't even SEEN adamantine, much less mined it. Hell, I haven't even gotten iron yet!

I'm very confused.

[Deviled]

Well, I started a new fort... Once I hit summer, I decided to check up on my stocks, and what I found was.....

An adamantine short sword.

Now, how the hell did that get there? I haven't even SEEN adamantine, much less mined it. Hell, I haven't even gotten iron yet!

I'm very confused.

You have a demon fort some where in your map, get to it and retrieve the sword and the demons will be released.

[Minnakht]

In a moment of creativity, I built a wall around the only entrance to my fort, out of pure bauxite. I then added kaolinite drawbridges leading to distant bauxite wall spots with ramps. This way, everything going into my fort has to pass over at least nine tiles of drawbridge.

Just wait until your goblins turn out to be mounted on giant eagles (or worse).

Now, now. By that time, the wall will be turned into a tall fort of bauxite, kaolinite, gypsum and possibly jet. Raising the drawbridges will seal it hermetically. And one of the floors has fortifications instead of outside walls already, so if I get myself to train marksdwarves...

Many people fell due to not knowing missiles travel z-levels, and I'm going to exploit that.

I'm not sure what will I do with the roof, but still. Maybe I'll put a drawbridge on it too, which when closed will lock it up.
Or maybe I'll use that jet for a pyramid on top. The tower is 11x11 with 3x3 squares extending out of each corner, and there will be barracks inside.

[Dachande]

Well, I started a new fort... Once I hit summer, I decided to check up on my stocks, and what I found was.....

An adamantine short sword.

Now, how the hell did that get there? I haven't even SEEN adamantine, much less mined it. Hell, I haven't even gotten iron yet!

I'm very confused.

You have a demon fort some where in your map, get to it and retrieve the sword and the demons will be released.

Oh, there are actual items in the demon forts? Awesome.

Those fuckers are going down.

In about 20 years.

[Minnakht]

No, no, it's like this.

A demon fort is a pile of slade walls and floors, set into rooms. It's completely empty and the rooms are connected, obviously.

It's almost completely empty, I mean - there is a single masterwork adamantine weapon in it - a short sword, in your case.

As soon as you pull that sword out, and only then, no second earlier, the real HFS stops being H.

[Garth]

So I built a nice little arena on top of a magma pipe.
Whoever wins earns the right to be drowned in lava.
However, once I drop a goblin in, everyone is took scared to go near the pit to drop in the next fighter.
What do?

[Langdon]

So I built a nice little arena on top of a magma pipe.
Whoever wins earns the right to be drowned in lava.
However, once I drop a goblin in, everyone is took scared to go near the pit to drop in the next fighter.
What do?

Cover the drop hole with hatches. The hatches prevent haulers from seeing the falling goblins, but still allow pitting.

[Garth]

So I built a nice little arena on top of a magma pipe.
Whoever wins earns the right to be drowned in lava.
However, once I drop a goblin in, everyone is took scared to go near the pit to drop in the next fighter.
What do?

Cover the drop hole with hatches. The hatches prevent haulers from seeing the falling goblins, but still allow pitting.

Much appreciated.

I can't construct the hatches though, because the little bugger is still just chilling down there.

[MythagoWoods]

Welp, in year 557 of Catpaddles I had my first OMGWTF siege.  Around 40-50 goblins, half markmen, all mounted, with a smattering of trolls.  Luckily the only entrance to my fort is trapped to holy hell and with bends so there's no line of sight until the very end where my military is waiting.

What's that?  The masons never finished the roofs?  They're taking pot-shots at my party area killing everyone and everything?  Well crap.

In the end all the dwarves refused to listen to my Civilian alert and head to the burrow inside the dining hall so I had to send my nice, safe military headfirst into the 20 something marksgoblins and the rest of their squad.  I lost a total of 50 dwarves, out of 205, with only 2 military loses because of this event.  I think I'll wait for my masons to finish the damned roof then make them pull the death lever...

[freeformschooler]

Since the other thread died I'm going to post this here. It belongs here a little better, too, since it's actual logs from DF experiences. Fort experiences from RAW-duping. Still working on the minotaur fort since it hasn't crashed.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Fairy Fortress

I embarked with a standard embark... but with fairies instead of dwarves. Item list seemed to be fine except for "forgotten beast n/a" and "unknown frozen creature substance". Believe it or not, fairies have the standard things and relationships dwarves have, along with labors. This might very well be just a regular old fort. I'll abandon later to mess around more, but for now I'm playing around.

2nd Granite, 251: Fairies will not dig. Or do anything. I'm abandoning.

2. The Everseeing Realms - Iron Man Fortress

All sorts of crazyness. The item list turned from wierd and regular to LSD-level. Bogeyman leather cloth, plume agate picks... unfortunately, it crashed on embark

3. Cave Lobster Fortress

I already knew this wouldn't work when I started it, but it doesn't really matter to me! Embarked with no skill points spent for kicks.

1st Granite: A bunch of leather blew up, and then everyone drowned.

4. Ettin Fortress:

All was well on Embark except for the fact that all picks had been replaced by whips. I'm not entirely sure at the time of writing (no internet access) WHAT an Ettin is. Oh well.

1st Granite: They have relationships and labors. Unfortunately, they wouldn't dig, probably because of the above problem. I got them to place some blocks though. Heh... Ettin Fortress would have been cool.

5. ***MINOTAUR FORTRESS***

It works. I finally found a RAW-dupe combo that works. Relationships, labors and digging all work, too. I started out on top of some grass and snowy/non-snowy trees, so I just started digging into the ground. Should have brought some blocks for a barrier!

2nd Granite: Been digging around. Item list is okay, and the local soil is fine. I forgot to bring a second miner, so I only have one. Oops.

4th Granite: Struck native copper on second layer.

6th Granite: Everything works. Saving the game. I guess it's just like DF, but Minotaurs are way scarier. I'm gonna carve out a labyrinth in the side of a mountain I found. 'Til next time!

[The11th]

Aah, my Terrifying!fort is going very well. A werewolf attacked again. I closed all my doors and raised the bridge only to realise... he was INSIDE MY FORT. Oh well, he died pretty quickly. The waterfall is still lovely, and I have a protected outdoor valley I walled off with a large artificial pond/well/drinking source that I can refill using the river. And I have an actual cloth trade! Giant spider silk, yeah.