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[Aspgren]

The cat pit of death.

1x1 pit.
Fill it with cats.
Let them breed.
Throw prisoners in and watch them be torn to pieces by a hundred tiny claws.

[Darkond2100]

I built a 6 z-level upside down pyramid on top of a support. And a building destroyer came along....

I loled.

I dug out out a well that I fed from a brook. I had a floodgate linked to the lever right next to the well so it wouldn't overflow.  I wasn't paying attention and next thing I know water is gushing out of the well and all I see is Urist McDwarf cancels task Pull Lever: Dangerous Terrain.


In terms of brilliance, I constructed a small hammer outside my fort enterence on a support with a lever to it in my meeting area.  When a goblin seige came, I pulled the lever and the entire hammer collapses and the dust cloud knocks out the goblins.  Never lost a single marksdwarf to bowgoblins again.  I dubbed that little defense feature, the Hammer of Armok.

Do you go to Agoura High?

[Swivelguy2]

A good idea I recently had: if you've got a lot of wood stockpiled and the elves start to get mad, make waterwheels. They use up 3 wood, occupying 3 squares, so it's the same storage efficiency as a stockpile, and train architecture and carpentry, 2 annoying skills to get good at.

[Banana]

A good idea I recently had: if you've got a lot of wood stockpiled and the elves start to get mad, make waterwheels. They use up 3 wood, occupying 3 squares, so it's the same storage efficiency as a stockpile, and train architecture and carpentry, 2 annoying skills to get good at.

and then when you need the wood you can deconstruct them which(correct me if im wrong) also puts up skills

[Banana]

i finally thought of my good idea

in my community fort i built a panic room adjacent to my character's room.

It has a floodgate in front of it, a bed, a chest, a cabinet, it is engraved, and it has a room behind the main one which contains a food stockpile for my character just in case he needs to be in the panic room for an extended period of time.

[Rotten]

GCS silk farm.

My legendary weavers pound out masterpiece cloth like clockwork, each cloth (single cloth, made from one web) worth 2,000 db. Each use takes about a dwarf month to weave it all, and at about 20 webs a use that's 1,800*20*12, which is 432,000 db a year. And all I do is tell a dwarf to pull a lever every now and then. And once my clothier is done skilling up on cheap -rope reed cloth ropes-, according to the Wiki his average value multiplier will be 6 (just a base legendary), and I'm not sure how much simply weaving cloth into clothes adds, but I should get in least 11,000 db or so for each clothing item unless I calculated something wrong. I haven't even started a metal industry yet.

Doesn't matter anyways, I easily buy out the caravans every visit simply with normal GCS cloth and give the dwarves a 10,000 db offering because they are awesome.

[Time Kitten]

GCS silk farm.

My legendary weavers pound out masterpiece cloth like clockwork, each cloth (single cloth, made from one web) worth 2,000 db. Each use takes about a dwarf month to weave it all, and at about 20 webs a use that's 1,800*20*12, which is 432,000 db a year. And all I do is tell a dwarf to pull a lever every now and then. And once my clothier is done skilling up on cheap -rope reed cloth ropes-, according to the Wiki his average value multiplier will be 6 (just a base legendary), and I'm not sure how much simply weaving cloth into clothes adds, but I should get in least 11,000 db or so for each clothing item unless I calculated something wrong. I have even started a metal industry yet.

Doesn't matter anyways, I easily buy out the caravans every visit simply with normal GCS cloth and give the dwarves a 10,000 db offering because they are awesome.

Be sure to masterfully dye that cloth... silver is worth the most, and if a moody dwarf gets ahold of a piece of giant cave spiders silk masterfully woven masterfully dyed cloth, dwarves will go from depressed to estatic from seeing the end product once.