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[Insignificant]

My first game and first map have an awesome spot. Tucked away in a little finger in a mountain. Also nice sand which extends indoors away for farms. Forts extremly small but they don't seem to be to angry with sleeping outside. 
Trying to build bedrooms after two massive immigration raids.
For some reasons caravans appear 4zlevels up the mountain so I can ignore trading.(they get stuck go crazy and die )
Trying to make enough booze to go along with all the excess food.
Not sure if there's magma but there is a crapload of worthless obsidian so there might be somewhere.

[Sysice]

Welcome to DF! You'll be as crazy as everybody else soon, don't worry.
Why do you think obsidian is worthless? It can make swords as good as steel, is the most valuable stone (not ore) in the game, and looks cool.

Anyway, I'm slowly plugging away at the high-tech fortress. Food dispensers, hot tubs, and magma lasers.

[100killer9]

Welcome to DF! You'll be as crazy as everybody else soon, don't worry.
Why do you think obsidian is worthless? It can make swords as good as steel, is the most valuable stone (not ore) in the game, and looks cool.

Anyway, I'm slowly plugging away at the high-tech fortress. Food dispensers, hot tubs, and magma lasers.

Magma lasers?

[Mangled]

Tested my first magma cannon today. Unfortunately, I accidentally set it up to hit my trade depot. Even worse, it hit the elven traders just as they where unloading their gear.
Back to the drawing board I guess...

[Innominate]

Tested my first magma cannon today. Unfortunately, I accidentally set it up to hit my trade depot. Even worse, it hit the elven traders just as they where unloading their gear.
Back to the drawing board I guess...

Is this a joke?

I mean, I get that elves don't bring any magma-safe items to trade, but since it is almost certainly 15 bins of cloth I'm sure you'll survive.

[dbfuru]

Ok, after losing 3 forts to Orcs, I'm beginning to feel accomplished.

My dwarves lived outside for a few months as my latest fort was carved out the side of a hill, and then I installed a retracting bridge soon after. I built an irrigation system and then built a plump helmet farm, getting my food and booze production set up for the time being.

Then I decided to take my base defense a bit further, by installing a flooding chamber. North of the dining room and kitchens, is the lever chamber. Some live bait is tied up in the entrance hallway, and the bridge is raised when a siege comes.

Then, once the Orcs enter the chamber and are butchering the puppy bait, the lockdown lever is thrown, trapping them between two floodgates, and then the lever labeled "FLOOD CHAMBER" is thrown, flooding the chamber with water sourced from the brook. It has been used twice successfully, killing two whole siege groups. Then the brook lock is closed and the chamber is drained by gravity and pressure.

Now my pop is at 67 and have around 1000 food and 700 drink. And I am currently training a military up.

[The Architect]

Cool. Now you just need a magma trap. It melts all that worthless leather crap the orcs leave around, while leaving their iron armor and weapons intact for you to melt down.

[Retro]

Sigh. My military is the usual "has done nothing but spar since the first immigration wave" and for some time now have been legendary in every military skill but crossbows, which I don't think I'll have them learn (though I may put them through a swimming course or two). Thus far one of them alone has been able to defeat five squads of goblins without even a bruise as the others were sleeping (there's only seven, they're pretty good buds). So, you know, general overpowered military.

Dragon shows up. I set up a single cage trap in front of where I know it'll path, but make a copy of the save so I can see how my military handles it. The worst effort that's been made thus far was with one dwarf wrestling it, it got a bruise on one of its arms. Every time it dies in about one hit. The hamme test was fun though. "RARGH I AM ZEDAN GOLDENGLOWS, THE LUXURIES OF FLAME! PREPARE TO boiiiiiiiiing" aaaaaand the corpse lands about 20 tiles away.

Nothing especially unique, but kind of amusing. So now I have a pet non-dwarf-eating dragon, which according to the history records is the only megabeast left in the world. Should make a good trade depot guard.

ed- Oh, and I love my mayor to bits. He's friends with everyone in the fortress except the one guy who has like ten grudges, and likes barrels. His only mandates have been "Make 2/2 barrels," "Make 3/3 barrels," and "Export of barrels prohibited." He's almost a legendary socialite, so with all his friends I don't think I'll see him out of office. Damn the nobles, he's getting his own entire house (with a seperate master office in the industry plaza) when I'm done setting up here.

double ed- I wonder if he likes dragons...

[dbfuru]

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-7542-escortsyrups

There is my current fort. I put quite a bit of effort into making hopefully interesting and informative POI's, cause I love telling people about my fort haha. My friends don't really understand.

[geoduck]

Sadly, one of my original seven (the brewer) didn't make it to legendary status before the economy kicked in, and he's now living in a hovel instead of the nice apartment I made for him..

[Grendus]

Trying to build an water manufacturing machine using magma and ice in the Dark Dwarves mod. Unfortunately, it produced stagnant water when the ice was mined... dunno why. Magma leaked and destroyed the chalk blocks my pumps were made with, which deconstructed the hanging gear assembly and windmill which immediately fell into the magma. So... back to the drawing board. Going to try again with pure iron pumps, which should be able to survive even if immersed in magma.

Hoping to use the ice repeater to fill a well and mass produce ice blocks for ice reactions. My construction is basically a bauxite bridge under a natural lake. There's a small magma cistern underneath the bridge. When I pull a lever, magma is pumped over the bridge, heating the lake above it and melting the ice. Then, I turn off the pumps and pull another lever, which opens the bauxite bridge and drops the magma 2 z-levels back into the cistern, cooling the ground and freezing the lake solid again. Worked well, until the magma splash.

Going to have to mine out the ice with ramps I guess. The natural ice floor above the frozen lake melted the ice as fast as it was mined, but ramps produced niiiiiiice icy blocks. Beautiful.

[Retro]

The baron with his entourage (including hammerer) arrived yesterday. I'm finding that I actually like my nobles quite a lot - the tax collector is happy because I keep making the barrels he demands, the baron's a little upset that his wife died (in a legitimate accident, though I have no idea why she was standing under the area I was collapsing), and the hammerer's ecstatic because he's made his first friend (the baron, actually). Aww. He's cute.

I'm still not giving them rooms yet.

[Quantum Toast]

My new Baroness likes trifle pewter. I've had the Hammerer disarmed.

[Mangled]

Tested my first magma cannon today. Unfortunately, I accidentally set it up to hit my trade depot. Even worse, it hit the elven traders just as they where unloading their gear.
Back to the drawing board I guess...

Is this a joke?

I mean, I get that elves don't bring any magma-safe items to trade, but since it is almost certainly 15 bins of cloth I'm sure you'll survive.

Yes. I was joking.
I know sarcasm doesn't work very well on the Internet but come on man wake up.

[Grendus]

My new Baroness likes trifle pewter. I've had the Hammerer disarmed.

I loled.

Trifle pewter isn't hard to get though, unless both trade liaisons are dead.