So my first fortress survived building a well from a river (stupid dwarves had suspended building a part of the wall of the reservoir, but luckily I noticed it in time so i could shut the floodgates, before the entire fortress was flooded), but now I'm getting my second ambush in a very short time and I still haven't got a good military (only legendary wrestlers).
The entrance to my fortress is guarded quite well, with bridges, moats, traps, chained dogs and fortifications (for when I've trained some marksdwarves), but I lost 3 dwarves to the ambushers before I found out how to manually evacuate them
So I thought of the next scheme, with below the layout of my fortress
before
..........
/
..../ FFFFF
after
.......... ...
| | |
......|FFFFF|.|
. ground
/ ramp
F part of fortress
| removed ramp/channel
horizontal = x/y-axis
vertical = z-axis
So I removed all the ramps around the hill and channeled parts of the hill to separate it from the map edges, so theoretically only my dwarves can access the upper part of the hill(with the trees and other things to do outside).
Now my question: Will ambushers spawn on top of this inaccessible hill, spoiling my plan?
and: Is there a way to see which dwarves are currently outside, without looking at every part of the map/checking every dwarf?
Thanks very much