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[VerdantSF]

With sufficient food is it be possible to just seal the fortress off and wait out a goblin siege?  On that note, if I so chose, could I close the dwarves off from the outside world indefinitely, once I gained access to towercaps for wood?

[Calhoun]

Yes,
Very Yes.

Infact, some people just deal with seiges this way.

[beorn080]

With a single plump helmet farm, and now with underground tree collection, you could do it indefinitely. Before, you would just lack wood, which is minor if you have magma and sufficient beds. But yeah, a 10x10 plump helmet farm could supply 200-300 dwarves easily.

Also, cage traps are nice.

[Paul]

You can get all the wood you need from underground tree farms. Just dig out a large cavern and flood it. What I did was dig way down just above the 3rd cavern layer and dig out an entire z-level. I then flooded it from water in the 2nd cavern layer and let it drain into water from the 3rd cavern layer. It then became a massive underground forest. I set up my fort in the center. I personally made a ramp to the surface so I can trade with the outside world (they happily descend all the way down to my trade depot), but you could just as easily close off the outside world.

If you plan to do that, you might as well just turn off invaders in the init. It will prevent the lag involved with the goblins warring every season with the caravans. It will also prevent the massive piles of clutter from said goblins and caravans dieing, and the announcements of various animals and thieves stealing said clutter.