Saraminod Iger, "The Great Gate of Rivers"
My starting location was a river flowing through this narrow canyon between two mountains. So, I figured for my project, I'd disfigure the local Grand Canyon by building a massive dam in it to provide hydromechanical power for all my mad science needs.
Then I hit upon another idea. Inspired by tales of someone's Dwarven superhighway project, and tales of massive world travel in later versions; Locks.
When boats are finally included in the game, they will have to pay tolls to me.
So far I've managed to lay down a basic dam, but I'm running into problems. How do I get the water to rise up to at least the top of the dam? I know it doesn't yet go over, but right now it's just like having the river stop dead, not even filling my dam?
I've got an idea or two and suggestions are welcome.
I'm either going to try some channeling, which may only do a z level or two at the cost of much labor, or I'm going to put some pumps, run by the river, to fill up the resevoir.
Unfortunately for me, it seems I've ended up in some Dwarf Fortress bastardization of Nam and Panama. Hot and wet mountain pass/river area, with two major forests. Thank Armok there aren't any diseases yet.
Though so far I've only gotten one siege (~15 gobbos), I've gotten more ambushes. No major assaults, but it seems I constantly get sniped by the gobbos. Some dwarf'll be walking through the woods on his task, when, zip, Charlie comes out of the trees and shoots him down. And more of my soldiers seem to bleed out than be struck down, too. Bad for morale. The weird thing is, the goblins seem pathetically weak so far. My dwarves, not even the champions, close in, the gobbos die in seconds.
At least I'm the one setting traps. No punji sticks for me, though; I'm sticking with good old buzzsaws and giant corkscrews. Though, in the interests of fairness (considering that I'm building them out of glass), I'm not going to blanket the entire map in them. Just most of the major approaches. So, I can consider it...Prince of Dwarf Fortress.