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[MaximumZero]

How about building them in a plateau near a volcano, with a 1-tile wide "bridge" spanning the volcano? Then, connect all the cages, as well as a drawbridge, to a lever, and put weapon traps on all the tiles on the bridge? It'd be like the Goblin Olympics: Volcano Diving.

Bonus points: Put a large dining hall not too far from the platform/bridge, with an overlooking window view.

[Stoup]

Yeah, but the ground won't take kindly to having a goblin thrown at it...

Also: I have no magma on this map as of yet, so any magma traps are out of the question.

[Angel Of Death]

Creating a hallway full of steel spikes to stop a siege.

And forgetting to link them up to a repeater. D:

[MaximumZero]

Yeah, but the ground won't take kindly to having a goblin thrown at it...

Also: I have no magma on this map as of yet, so any magma traps are out of the question.

You could always use water. Or spikes. Dwarves like spikes.

Creating a hallway full of steel spikes to stop a siege.

And forgetting to link them up to a repeater. D:

I'm still not sure how to do that.

[iyaerP]

Yeah, but the ground won't take kindly to having a goblin thrown at it...

Also: I have no magma on this map as of yet, so any magma traps are out of the question.

You could always use water. Or spikes. Dwarves like spikes.

Creating a hallway full of steel spikes to stop a siege.

And forgetting to link them up to a repeater. D:

I'm still not sure how to do that.

I just use the lazy dorf's approach of having a lever in some place with high traffic like your dining hall or statue garden and then just link them all to it, and set "pull lever to" repeat

[Angel Of Death]

I once made a fortress with an unstopable military.

And I forgot to create a farm. My dorfs dehydrated and starved.


FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

[Shardok]

My dwarves embarked on Ice. I didn't notice this because of the snow level keeping me from seeing where they embarked, I had wondered why I couldn't find the river on the map, but ignored it. Then the snow melts, and I see lush green and notice my wagon appears to be Right on top of Ice. Instant thought: Get everyone moving stuff off of the wagon. Afterward it hit me I could of just turned off temperature temporarily. That would be about 2 seconds after the Ice unfroze. Almost everything, except the anvil, and a few barrels of food got dropped right into the water, as well as a dwarf that was getting something from the wagon.

[Samohan25]

What the...

Does this show something about my mayor's reputation in my fortress?

btw, this image wasn't stitched together, he was killed instantly after becoming mayor.

[NewSheoth]

What the...

Does this show something about my mayor's reputation in my fortress?

btw, this image wasn't stitched together, he was killed instantly after becoming mayor.

Shortest. Term. Ever.

[Fishbulb]

Years later, rumors persisted that Mayor Zasitakum was killed by Goblin Castro, the Dwarf Mafia or even the militia-industrial complex.

[Reese]

What the...

Does this show something about my mayor's reputation in my fortress?

btw, this image wasn't stitched together, he was killed instantly after becoming mayor.

Shortest. Term. Ever.

Eat it, William Harrison!

[Tinker Thinker]

Winter has arrived!
[time]
Some migrants have arrived! (20)
Spring has arrived!
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Some migrants have arrived! (9)
Summer has arrived!
[time]
Some migrants have arrived! (14)
Fall has arrived!
[time]
Some migrants have arrived! (10)
Winter has arrived!
[time]
Some migrants have arrived! (15)
Spring has arrived!
[time]
Some migrants have arrived! (5)
[time]
The Fortress has begun a Meat Exports industry on the Backs of the Infinite Stray Beasts that arrive with The Migrant Hordes!

[Samuel]

Theory: As doors are technically buildings, dwarves can't interact with them while fleeing. That's why when a dwarf is being chased by a giant, bloated lizard with a shell and a poisonous bite and ends up at the door in the fortress which is set so that he can enter but the horrifying, squad-killing abomination cannot, he will turn in the other direction, inevitably getting killed after being within two tiles of complete safety.

[Stoup]

Just discovered two things: The danger of Alligators on a desert embark, and the speed-up glitch that occurs on embark.

Benny Hill music was played, at least in my head.

[Captain Insano]

I just dug into a volcano, forgetting about the pressure of the magma, and my miner was swept up and slammed against the end of the tunnel, exploding into a fine red mist. Body parts! Body parts everywhere!!

EDIT: Oh I also flooded my fortress with water.