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[B4brilliant]

A VILE FORCE ARRIVES!! i check...pfft, its a group of speargoblins not even lead by a lord, send my whole militia after them...watching my militia gather...2 groups of 5 trolls show up....a group of 10 axe goblins and 6 bowgoblins lead by a hammerlord...went from having a militia of 30 to having a militia of 9...

savescummed >.> gonna build a dwarven atom smasher infront of my entrance...if its closed will they still crowd it?

in my experience: no.
i've spent ages creating a magma pool and a drawbridge to (try to)fling invading goblins in it, and as soon as i draw the inner bridge, sealing the fortress, they just stop, maybe wander a little, but sadly never step on the gobbopult.
afaik the enemy try to find a path into your fortress and follow it, but in the very moment this path is broken, even if the path-breaking item is on the other side of the map, they will stop.
so for now my dream of a fortress without soldier is being shattered...

I had this problem in my volcano-lair fortress. The only way in was a zigzag of retractable drawbridges over the volcano. Goblins would pile up right outside after one pull of the lever. I got around it (mostly) by drafting a brave soldier and stationing him on a small platform next to the bridge within sight of the goblins. they snap out of it, would run to attack him, and I would pull the lever of doom. Note: usually cost the life of one mighty dwarf each time I wanted to do it. Note 2: doesn't work on bowgoblins very well.

[Eric Blank]

You could put a stray animal on a chain somewhere inside a structure forcing even bowmen to walk over the bridges to reach it. They'll charge the tunnel in true Russian fashion, and die like Russians too.

My fort has been rather unproductive lately. The dwarves seem to have unnecessarily large amounts of work on their hands and I have only my work manager idle at any time. Don't think I have many construction jobs designated, either.

[TolyK]

Real dwarves use pressure plates!

I had this problem in my volcano-lair fortress. The only way in was a zigzag of retractable drawbridges over the volcano. Goblins would pile up right outside after one pull of the lever. I got around it (mostly) by drafting a brave soldier and stationing him on a small platform next to the bridge within sight of the goblins. they snap out of it, would run to attack him, and I would pull the lever of doom. Note: usually cost the life of one mighty dwarf each time I wanted to do it. Note 2: doesn't work on bowgoblins very well.

I like having a very long zigzag of retractable bridges, and auto-retracting hatches at the end SO CLOSE to the fort entrance.
They go in, activate the plate, and when one goblin steps on a plate he can't go forward, but instead dumps his friends into the pit/lake/volcano 

[varnish]

40d wrassledwarfs against one gobin siege? Yeah, that aint much of a contest.

This is one of the game mechanics that the new version will undoubtedly fix, someday.

[Kogut]

http://www.uploderx.net/dphrag/Quantum_foodpile946.jpg

I have 20 pages worth of prepared food in a single pot.  It weighs just under 1.1 tons. Awesome.

Jaw-dropping bug. Reported?

[Renzuko]

siege rerated questions...

so, if i were to block off my main entrance, but make an entrance near the top of the mountain i dug into FULL of spike traps and such, will goblins run in there?

[Naryar]

http://www.uploderx.net/dphrag/Quantum_foodpile946.jpg

I have 20 pages worth of prepared food in a single pot.  It weighs just under 1.1 tons. Awesome.

Happened also too me... not as much but still, my -large basalt pot- is worth 24k in the depot with no more than skilled cooks.

[Lielac]

 

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Goddamnit, and this embark was looking so good, too. But noooo, caverns all up in my stuff... -sigh-

And the offending caverns were about 4 or 5 z-levels underground, too! >.> damnit why so close to the surface~

[Kogut]

It is curse for keeping dwarfs in 3 tile rooms.

[Lielac]

It is curse for keeping dwarfs in 3 tile rooms.

They can have bigger rooms over the magma if they're that insistent about it.

[Yoink]

140 was a dramatic year in the life of Fortress Koshid, 'Slaughterrocks'... (Great random name! Suits it! )
The fort had long since recovered from its shaky, lawless and violent start, thanks to the efforts of a few great dwarves, now memorialized in the main hall. In 140, the goblins really stepped up their efforts to wipe us out...
They seemed to attack as soon as their spies told them there was a new baby in the fort... It got so bad I had to build a heavily-guarded nursery.
I'll tell more later, but also, the new well is finally built, although it's STILL claiming lives... Two dwarves died in the construction, and after it was working a forgotten beast climbed up the well and killed one dwarf and bit off another's hand, all the while being stabbed. Oh, and I have two Forgotten Beasts in my basement... :S

[Buttery_Mess]

Wells truly are deathtraps. The one place you don't want contaminants is the one place dwarves insist on dragging blood into, drowning, and falling. I've finally managed to set up a well with flowing water and no contaminants, right next to the hospitals. Too bad nobody ever gets injured...

[MooUK]

A mining incident just killed one of my three legendary miners, plus the metalcrafter I'd just ordered to help them. Damn.

Accidentally dug ramps underneath a tree. Not a good idea.

EDIT: Appears I also broke both legs and one arm of another dwarf. Time to rapidly build a hospital!

[xordae]

The forgotten beast that had been lurking in the caverns underneath of Raldakost finally got wind of my deep well operation - after 5 years of stalking around the caverns and leaving me alone. It crawled up through the well and then chased a dwarf all the way up to the point where the well tunnel meets the main staircases, secured with some doors and bridges in each direction. The problem is that it's a giant shrimp that breathes venom, so my dwarves are guaranteed to get paralyzed and suffocate. It also rots their bodies while they're still alive which is pretty gross. I was a bad boy and reloaded it once because of some dumb mistakes in the first run. I left a door unlocked and the venom/miasma would creep up the staircase and flood vital parts of the fortress. Dozens of dwarves died. Half a squad could probably take it out, but it's a suicide mission. On the other hand, I just repelled a siege and the hospital is crowded. So access to the well is just as important. As of now, the shrimp lost interest and is loitering in the hallway behind the bridge. It can break through doors, but hasn't decided to do so just yet.

[Shook]

Mmm, so much cotton candy! I went reckless and pierced right into the middle of a pillar. As luck would have it, it was solid.