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[Romegypt]

Here are some screen shots of my fortress. It's just barely autumn now, and I was wondering if this was ideal

http://i.imgur.com/CyYDmkH.png

I'll eventually put up a wall, but for now a ramp leading into the fortress is all I have- A depot will be put outside for traders, and I plan for the pasture to be inside the wall

http://i.imgur.com/nszhXA4.png

Those are a TON of stairs, so that pathfinding will not ever be a problem. There is also a ramp alongside, just in case

http://i.imgur.com/3dkJlSz.png

More of the same

http://i.imgur.com/qPWJNbk.png

Here are the base workshops- 1 carpenter and masons, and southwards the early forges.

http://i.imgur.com/TTv3WWQ.png

Small ramps leading down to the bedrooms

http://i.imgur.com/KeXBY48.png

And here we have the bedrooms. I'm not connecting the stairs, just in casse a forgotten beast or some gobs get in, I can block of the ramps and some dwarfs will live for a while. I'll also eventually seal in a small food stockpile, just in case, and forbid access to it unless a famine occurs.

EDIT= Forgot this picture! http://i.imgur.com/jfzEDjh.png

[Daris]

What's keeping wild animals out of your fort?

[PopTart]

You can embed an image right in your post with [img]. I recommend it.

[Romegypt]

there will be a wall added later, It's not a huge priority for me early on.

[Daris]

You can have (and IMHO should have) multiple levels of security.  Keas and grizzly bears won't politely wait.  A security system can be implemented in stages, so that the innermost stage protects against wild animals today, and tomorrow it serves as a final line of defense against sieges.

Right now a kea can literally fly straight into your fort and steal your anvil, and you have zero recourse except to draft military to kill it (and hope they reach it before it can get into the air).  It's your decision whether you think that's an acceptable risk, but it would be trivially easy to prevent it.  You asked if this was ideal; I reckon it's ideal if your objective is to implement artificial difficulty for yourself.

[Fleeting Frames]

3 wide ramps are needed for autumn traders to access your depot (wagons can't descend stairs), but have you thought where you would be putting it? It requires 5x5 space, which you don't seem to have set aside right now.

[Romegypt]

I already placed the Depot outside. As for one, some of the security dogs I have killed the keas and giant crows that kept coming in and they don't even try anymore. Progress on the wall is slow, but I already have a metal working industry going on, and made 20 metal shortswords, as they were in demand by the caravan (Not sure how lead short swords would go over, but I made iron, so not a problem).

I don't worry about sieges until a couple years have passed, and by then I usually have some form of military up and running.

I'm thinking of doing two layers of walls, and inner, and an outer.

[Eddren]

I recommend having your weaponsmith churn out bolts until he's at Legendary. It'll be better early on than when you hit steel. Additionally, if you have copper...

[Fleeting Frames]

Alternatively, could churn out trap components (large serrated discs and spiked balls are 9 times as valuable as short swords)  for massive trade value/defence/royal rooms, or have large fraction of your fort dabble a bit in weapon- or armorsmithing and hope for mood (workshop profiles and dwarf therapist can help here).

[Eddren]

Looking at your surroundings, that's a good one. I'd ordinarily say that a solid green glass production facility could cover your trap-making needs, but you're lacking in sand.

[Daris]

Alternatively, could churn out trap components (giant axe blades/large serrated discs are 9 times as valuable as short swords)  for massive trade value/defence/royal rooms, or have large fraction of your fort dabble a bit in weapon- or armorsmithing and hope for mood (workshop profiles and dwarf therapist can help here).

*coughcoughmenacingsteelspikescoughcough*

[Fleeting Frames]

Alternatively, could churn out trap components (giant axe blades/large serrated discs are 9 times as valuable as short swords)  for massive trade value/defence/royal rooms, or have large fraction of your fort dabble a bit in weapon- or armorsmithing and hope for mood (workshop profiles and dwarf therapist can help here).

*coughcoughmenacingsteelspikescoughcough*

Oops. I got crossed with the melting wellspring. Should be spike balls and serrated discs *fixes*

[Eddren]

Alternatively, could churn out trap components (giant axe blades/large serrated discs are 9 times as valuable as short swords)  for massive trade value/defence/royal rooms, or have large fraction of your fort dabble a bit in weapon- or armorsmithing and hope for mood (workshop profiles and dwarf therapist can help here).

*coughcoughmenacingsteelspikescoughcough*

Oops. I got crossed with the melting wellspring. Should be spike balls and serrated discs *fixes*

Alternately, if you simply stud your spears with more iron and they happen to menace with spikes, you could just imagine it's a spear made up of hundreds of other, tinier spears.

[Fleeting Frames]

Heh, and now I'm imagining an obsidian shortsword studded with every kind of stone. It's a shame weapon racks don't work :p

[Eddren]

Heh, and now I'm imagining an obsidian shortsword studded with every kind of stone. It's a shame weapon racks don't work :p

"Is there actually obsidian in your Shortsword?"